[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] German form of Meychlow

[Jerry Frank]

At 08:39 PM 19/02/2004 -0500, AlbertMuth at aol.com wrote:

>I use a couple of sources to check on possible German names.  Michigan
>has a very high percentage of people with German ancestry, so I have been
>surrounded by the surnames all my life.  But there are hundreds of names that
>I have never seen before, so I like to check the possibilities on a couple of
>websites.

To check on surnames, you can also use the Germany telephone book at 
http://www.teleauskunft.de/ which results in only 34 hits for Meichel in 
the entire country.  Obviously an uncommon surname but certainly a very 
good possibility.





Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca