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Lee - congratulation on your new "find"! Talking about family history, I am not sure whether I have told you folks this already. With the help of a guy from down-under, we were able to trace back the origin of our family all the way back into the 12th century. In the wake of the Knights of the German Order, moving eastward into Slavic country and bringing Christianity into this dark area, settlers claimed land in the easternmost part of Germany, which is now in Poland, close to the Russian border. One of those settlers squatted on land close to a peasant´s village called Jebrammen. Peasants spoke Polish in those days, so they appropriately named him the Master of Jebammen, or in Polish, Jebramki or Jebramski. Over the centuries, that name evolved into what is our last name now. In 1945, the move eastward was forcibly reversed, the surviving few of a once large family are now back in the west of Germany. The family herald is this one: <a href="http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv185/SirMadig/WappenAbramowski1.jpg"><img src="http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv185/SirMadig/WappenAbramowski1.jpg" alt=" " border="0" /></a> If times had been slightly different, my name would be Ulrich von Jebrammen...
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