Re: Johann George Graetz
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Re: Johann George Graetz
Kristin Nordstrom 10/06/01
Hi,
this Graetz forum a I found few days ago.
Maybe there is a a chance to trace a rumor all Graetz families came from Graz/Austria a few centuries ago, as very early driven outs by the Duke of the Graz castle.
Looking for the Bavarian town "Gayern" at our German zip code book, there are none of those towns which sound like that. I guess this could be a simple mistake: The German name of Bavaria is "Bayern". Maybe Jacob Graetz told "Bayern" to the people of the Immigration Office who asked him where he came from in Europe.
Hope to get more information also from Graetz at Silesia and Prussia, as my grand-grand-fathers came from the same area.