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Position:Home>Genealogy> My last name is Threats, do anyone know where this last name came from?Question:My ethnic background is African American/Native American Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: My ethnic background is African American/Native American www.ancestry.com "Threats" is an alternative spelling for Threat : Americanized spelling of German "Tritt",which in turn means it is apparently from Old High German "tretan" ‘"to step".’. However, a South German family of that name are the descendants of late 16th-century immigrants from Como, Italy who bore the name de Triddi. www.familysearch.org has listings in North America (Tenn., Alabama, S Carolina, Georgia,Virginia, Arkansas, Miss., Florida, Illinois, Louisiana--with the majority being in Alabama); Yorkshire, England. Spelling variations include THREAT, THREATS , THREET , THRREATT , THREATT, & THREAD . . ur a threat |