I am amazed that there is another Charles Thomann!! My Thomann family got here in 1833, landed in Baltimore and then moved to Summerfield, Kansas. They were originally Swiss and then moved to France and lived on Thomann Street in Alsace Lorraine. Thomann means "walkway of the canons"(Priests not boom boom's) and I have been to four Thomann streets in Europe all of which have a Church at one end and a place where the religious people grew their herbs and veggies at the other. When surnames were adopted many took their names from where they lived, Churchill being a good example, Thomann obviously being another. My Mother's family were Brodheads, which meant a broad point of land into a lake in Lancaster, England. I can track them back to 1247. I married Joyce Thompson in 1949. She sadly died of cancer in September 2011. Please contact me at my email address wardog143@verizon.net if you have any questions or comments. I served as Infantry in World War II, Korea and Vietnam so my kids insisted on Wardog. 143, count the letters, means I Love You.