2026-04-10 19:34 UTC
@chemoelectric Schwartz means "Black" in German, so I would imagine various families independently have this family name from one another. There are also people named "Black" and "Zwart" or "De Zwart". In some cases they might be related. In my case Schwartzenberg is the Dutchified version of Schwarzenberg (as used by German/Austrian ancestors and descendants of branches that are still there).
Hopefully there's a way to capture the information in books that would crumble. That indeed happens.
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@chemoelectric@masto.ai 2026-04-10 23:21
@jschwart@mas.to There are book scanners. I need to get one to record my great grandfather’s baseball ephemera scrapbook from circa 1900. Schwartz is a very common Ashkenazi Jewish name, probably originally given to people with dark hair or something like that. But of course something unfortunate happened in Europe so it is not common there anymore. It is still common in the U.S., in the states of New York and New Jersey particularly. Of the Barry Schwartzes on the Net, I am the Google Font one.