Re: Swartz - German or Jew?
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Re: Swartz - German or Jew?
Peggy 4/05/00
Only family or church records will tell you for sure.I'm the 9th generation descendent of a Christian Schwartz from Pennsylvania.We know from tombstones that after three generations the name was changed to Swartz.This was a Christian family, presumably Lutheran since there is one birth certificate signed by Muhlenberg.The county history spells the name Swartz for all generations.While you would expect Schwarz to be the spelling, since that is usual in German, I learned while living in Germany that the Schwartz variation is characteristic of Wurtemburg, the area around Stuttgart.