Quote from: Gertrude on January 24, 2019, 04:21:59 PM
yeah, it's still on the Rhine though, but they came here a long time ago. Last name is See, which mean Sea, I think. Johan Martin See, born in 1720.
Yes, it is at the Rhine, but we seperate the Rhine into three distinctive areas. It is the Oberrhein (upper Rhine), in the running along the Black Forest and some other mountainous areas, the next is the Mittelrhein (middle Rhine) the area it runs through are lower mountains, and that is he classic wine area, and after that we have the Niederrhein (the lower Rhine), starting about at Cologne and going all the way into the Netherlands. I was born and raised on the left lower Rhein side. This means the west side of the river. Your family is also from the left side. The left side was always considered the better side of the river. I don't know why, but Linksrheinisch was always a more desired location!
A better translation for See would be Lake. Wich means, the family must have lived at a lake during the times Charlemagne established family names in his empire!