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My last name is "Volkstien"/"Wolkstien".
My grandmother always told me that it means cloud+stone.
Now I did some looking-up of my own, and found that "Wolk" does mean "cloud", but "Volk" means "folk/people". I think it's more likely that the name originally ment "stone people" or "stone person" and reffered to someone who was working with stones somehow.
Am I write? What do you think?
My grandfather was Austrian-Jewish.
My grandmother always told me that it means cloud+stone.
Now I did some looking-up of my own, and found that "Wolk" does mean "cloud", but "Volk" means "folk/people". I think it's more likely that the name originally ment "stone people" or "stone person" and reffered to someone who was working with stones somehow.
Am I write? What do you think?
My grandfather was Austrian-Jewish.
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