Re: BUEHLS / BÜHLIN - could this last name be spelled another way?
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BUEHLS / BUHLIN - could this last name be spelled another way?
Nona Anon 9/25/10
You couldn't have seen "BUHLIN".There is no such name.You must have actually seen "BÜHLIN".In German, "-in" is the feminine ending, equivalent to the ending "-ess" in English -- a man being a waiter, a woman a waitress.
Until into the 19th century, the female members of a family would add the feminine ending "-in" to the surname.In the course of the 19th century, that practice died out.
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