Family Names

Family names, as I'm sure you have discovered, changed sometimes a little and sometimes into something unrecognizable. If you can't find your family try using a sound index or spell it as it sounds. My maiden name was Schnee but here in the US it is often found as Snow, Russell may have once been Ruschli, it usually happened when the recorders when to write down the names for people who couldn't read or write. Or when people wanted to fit into an area and seem less foreign. You will soon turn into a free-lance detective and if you work with genealogy sites such as Ancestry.com you may find out even more. So, keep searching!