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Re: Faber Family Name
Posted by: cortney farber (ID *****1923) Date: January 19, 2003 at 22:29:41
In Reply to: Re: Faber Family Name by Kyle Faber of 461

Actually, the name Faber is not the same name as Farber, therefore, a different meaning. FaRber is an old German word, and it means "dyer of cloth" or denotes a "person of colors." So indeed, the early Farbers likely worked with textiles, namely, dying them. ;)


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