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2026-04-10 14:29 UTC
@jschwart It is possible one might find a lot of ‘Schwartz’ names in the U.S. amongst the Amish, the ‘Pennsylvania Dutch’. That is, the speakers of an old American dialect of German from colonial days, who are very religious and wear traditional clothing.
I noticed a lot of ‘Schwartz’ once when leafing through a book of records from colonial days, before deciding to stop because the pages were crumbling in my fingers.
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@jschwart@mas.to 2026-04-10 19:34
@chemoelectric Schwartz means "Black" in German, so I would imagine various families independently have this family name from one another. There are also people named "Black" and "Zwart" or "De Zwart". In some cases they might be related. In my case Schwartzenberg is the Dutchified version of Schwarzenberg (as used by German/Austrian ancestors and descendants of branches that are still there). Hopefully there's a way to capture the information in books that would crumble. That indeed happens.