View source for Mailing List:2004-07-14 06, Re: Possible surname "Aberesche(sp.), & tough to contactthe sender, by Karl H. Schwerin

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From: karl h schwerin &lt;{{emailaddress|unm.edu|schwerin}}&gt;
Subject: Re: [WHITNEY-L] Possible surname &quot;Aberesche(sp.), &amp; tough to contactthe sender
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:20:23 -0600 (MDT)
In-Reply-To: &lt;003a01c469df$e90726c0$738c1e9d@oemcomputer&gt;

I googled the word, which brought me to a bunch of German-language 
websites.  All had links for translation, though some of the English 
translations are as hard to understand as the German.  Anyway, 
&quot;Aberesche&quot; is a less preferred, or archaic spelling for &quot;Eberesche.&quot;   
This is known as the &quot;false ash&quot; or &quot;bird berry,&quot; and 
seems to be common in German forests.  (It's what we call the mountain 
ash, or European mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia).  Still no idea what or 
how this relates to genealogy - Robert Croxton's or otherwise.   

Karl SchwerinSnailMail:  Dept. of Anthropology
Univ. of New Mexico    Albuquerque, NM 87131
e-mail: {{emailaddress|unm.edu|schwerin}}

Cultural anthropology...is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering
the normal.  Edward Sapir (1949:151)
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