About the Mansbach Family Website

Chances are you are reading this because your last name is, or was, MANSBACH, MANCBACH, or MANZBACH. In all likelihood, you have never met anyone with that name other than the people in your immediate family. Perhaps you would like to know more about your ancestry or the derivation of this unusual name. Or possibly some middle school teacher gave you an assignment about your family tree and you’re here to get your homework underway. You may even have bright red hair!

This website will concentrate on seven inter-related “families” of MANSBACHs, whose common paternal ancestor can be traced to the area of Tarnow circa 1800, in what is now Poland but was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. These “Polish” MANSBACHs have one thing in common other than their common surname and geographical origination. All of the MANSBACHs that trace their origin to Poland are Levites, a Jewish priestly class who comprise approximately 4% of Ashkenazi Jews. If your MANSBACH family came from Poland, you will find your ancestors here. But you will also find information on MANSBACHs whose families seem to originate in Sweden, Germany and other parts of Europe, as well.

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[Photo — from dad’s drive]

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[Photo — from dad’s drive]

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There are seven MANSBACH families today that descend from one of the following MANSBACHs:

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