For Paape there are 131 on Yasni with different names. The most frequently searched first names for Paape are: Horst
Among the most common last names on Yasni Paape is on position 4396.
In the "Secret State Archive in Berlin" The AZ = 44.55 Bd.72 Genealogy I found on page 214 the sentence: Name Pape likely "priest" means. The Pape's name was back when our ancestors were still illiterate, according to emphasis and knowledge of the competent official with aa time writer and sometimes written without e. I know from old records the spellings of a peasant family in East Prussia as follows: 1736 = Pape 1769 = 1781 = Paap Paap - and that was XXX. Signed the people with! The known an X to do three times! Especially Prussia in 1717, compulsory education was introduced and the people in case their names then were able to control themselves.
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