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faden Name Meaning and History

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a tailor, from respectively Middle High German vadem and modern German Faden, both meaning ‘thread’.

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Distribution of faden Families in the US in 1920
Number of faden families
 11-19
 4-10
 1-3
 0
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Threads: 3 - Messages: 6
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Augustus Faden - Baden, Germany to Troy, NY L.D. Julian 3
Faden>Manhattan,Brooklyn. pamato 0
Augustus Faden - Troy, NY - b. 1852, Baden, Ger Lynn J. 0

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