Talk:Trachtenberg

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Trachtenberg is an old style german (or austrian) surname, definetly not Bessarabian and Ukrainian. There are two possible translations "Traditional Costume Mountain" or (less likely) "Aspiremountain".

"Trachtenburg" is a different name, it means "Costume Castle". (Translation to "Aspire Castle" is here not possible, would be bad grammar (then it would write 'Trachtburg').

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.19.164.90 (talk • contribs) 23:48, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

useful page - needs to be cleaned up
Really glad this page was made, it is endlessly useful to trace Jewish names and the location families were originally from. I would recommend sticking with just the 'berg' ending, and having 'burg' as a possible alternative. (Like you have with Trajtenberg).

The above person doesn't seem to understand that Jewish people often carry names from different locations. I re-read the article and I think it is actually in fact very clear that although the name was originally 'German' you have explained quite clearly why Jews outside of Germany are most commonly given this name.

The formatting needs to be fixed however, it is currently difficult to read. I will go look at how pages of a similar nature are put together and see if I can help replicate it for you. Noxiyu (talk) 14:00, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

update
So I did some reformatting and now the bullet points are at least consitent. I wasn't sure how best to present the alternative spellings of the name, but since you only have 1 example of the Trajtenberg spelling, I thought it best to group it with other altnerative spellings. In the introduction I moved the spelling 'burg' out of the first line, and into the section on alternative spellings. I also removed the hebrew spelling with a chet, as it is very uncommon, does not easily read as Trachtenberg, and is a responsibility of a Hebrew page on the topic (I feel) to discuss possible alternative spellings. Noxiyu (talk) 14:22, 13 November 2017 (UTC)