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Comment by Jerry Baker on October 19, 2009 at 10:52am

My Leichtnam ancestors, some of whom changed their name to "Leichtman," in America, may be traced back as far as the 16th Century, in a town named "Breidenbach." Its name means "Broad Brook,"

This "Breidenbach" is in the French Département of Moselle, in the province of Lorraine. It was once considered German, and the native inhabitants once spoke a dialect of German. Its inhabitants are most closely related to those of the extreme northern part of Alsace, and to the parts of the Rhein-Pfalz of Germany that are directly north across the border from them.

This link is to the distribution of "Breidenbachs" in the US in 1920. Curiously, some of them in Hardin County, Ohio are listed incorrectly in that year's Census records. In several instances, "Breidenbach" is changed into "Luckenbach."

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=&gst=&rank=0&...

That reminds me of the 1975 song about "Luckenbach, Texas," that was recorded by Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings.

Several years ago, I corresponded briefly with Mitch Rognholt, who, if I remember right, lives near Farmington. He's a distant relative of mine, perhaps, because we both had ancestors that lived on a farm named "Rognholt," near Torpa, Norway. "Rognholt" means "Rowan-Tree," namely the mountain ash. Mitch told me that someone in his family remembered seeing a grove of those trees, on that farm.