BARTELS
Preface: my Bartels ancestors came some 200 years ago to Southern Poland from somewhere in the West. The name was transformed to Bartelski soon thereafter to assimilate with local inhabitants ("-ski" is one of most popular Polish suffixes). However I'm still interested in all Bartels-related topics. These pages were designed to provide you with as much theoretical analysis as possible to give you wider background for your research. I would like to thank all the people who so often share their knowledge with me and provide me with various data of value taking a big part in the process of constant improvement of these pages. Etymology: I have managed to find three German books describing the origin of this name. Two of them I got thanks to courtesy of Kai Krasnodembski from Germany who sent me the photo copies. The first book by Max Gottschald "Deutsche Namenkunde" (issued Berlin 1936) says that the form Bartel (for our purpose should be treated