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Author: MichaelW
Date: 2014-10-30 22:53
I suppose your family name might have to do with Spiegeltal or, in the older spelling till 1900, „Spiegelthal“ („Mirror valley“) in the old mining town of Wildemann in the Harz mountains here in Lower Saxony, famous for complicated ancient waterworks for the mines with ponds, channels and galleries (17th centuy philosopher G.W.Leibniz took part in their construction) . In ancient German „Spiegel“ could be used for pond, lake. But how to transcribe it into phonetic American? I'll try my best: here in Hannover perhaps „Speegltahl“- in the rest of Germany it would rather be pronounced „Shpeegltahl“.
http://www.wildemann.de/historische-fotos-spiegeltal/
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grenadilla428 |
2014-10-30 20:22 |
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David Spiegelthal |
2014-10-30 21:24 |
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MichaelW |
2014-10-30 22:53 |
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David Spiegelthal |
2014-10-30 22:54 |
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kdk |
2014-10-30 23:07 |
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Katrina |
2014-10-30 23:29 |
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MichaelW |
2014-10-30 23:30 |
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kdk |
2014-10-30 23:41 |
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Dileep Gangolli |
2014-10-31 06:02 |
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ned |
2014-11-01 04:41 |
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