YOUR TEN-MINUTE (OR MORE) DISTRACTION OF THE WEEK: Via Alex Massie, the World Names Profiler, which allows you to see the relative frequency of your surname across a large-ish portion of the world. Interesting facts I learned:
* The highest concentration of Troesters in the US is found in Nebraska.
* In Germany, the highest number is in Baden-Wurttemburg
* As the stories I've been told would indicate, there are a fair number of Troesters in Lorraine, though none in Alsace (A-L is the place from which my ancestors emigrated)
* Though the name Troester derives from the German tröst ("to comfort"), the origins of the name appear to be Romanian (thus lending credence to the sometimes-claim that we are as much as 3/4 Romanian). More research will have to be done on that one.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
1 comment:
I think it's appropriate that your name means "comfort."
:-)
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