[Ghoser777]

http://www.die-fahrenbacher.at/

At first I thought it was some death threat being made by a former student or someone who bought one of my pieces of software, but I guess die means the in german. It's kind of cool to have a band that shares your last name. I've already emailed them about getting one of their CDs. It got me wondering - I have no idea what fahrenbacher even means. I really should look that up somehow...

[TETENAL]

A Fahrenbacher is a person from the village Fahrenbach (probably). A "Bach" is a little river and according to the village website I linked to the "Fahren" part in the name comes from "Farn" which means fern.

[Ghoser777]

I just talked to my dad, and he said supposedly that town is not associated with our name. He did mention something about the -er probably being added when someone down the line first came to America. When my dad was in ROTC, his instructor said the name meant "running by a brook", which kind of makes sense as "fahren" can mean drive.

[TETENAL]

Well, literally "Fahrenbach" would mean "drivebrook", but I still think "fern brook" makes more sense. And usually family names are professions or places where the people came from. So I would say a village makes more sense (if it's not that Fahrenbach maybe it was another) than a leisure activity. But I'm not a genealogist.

[Ghoser777]

There someone in my family who has supposedly done the lineage - I think I'll give them a call and see what they know,

[screamingFit]

Isn't "Fahrenbach" a brand name for gum erasers or something?