Pflaum is a common German name and is my paternal grandmother's maiden name.  My Pflaum family records date back to the early 1600's (Hans Leonhard PFLAUM) in Unteröwisheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.  Unteröwisheim is located near Karlsruhe.

My paternal great-grandfather, John PFLAUM (1839-1902) was born in Unteröwisheim and emigrated from there to the US in the 1800's settling in Algonquin (now Barrington Hills), Illinois. The Pflaums and the Bratzlers came from the same German village and settled in the same US village.  My grandfather and grandmother Pflaum-Bratzler were distantly related in at least 10 different ways, although I doubt they knew this when they married in 1899 in Elgin, Illinois USA.

There are 879 Pflaum listings in the German telephone directories in 2010. 

There were about 200 Pflaums listed in the US telephone directories in 1999.

In 2013 there were over hundreds of Pflaums listed in the US telephone directories (whitepages.com).

There are over 200 PFLAUMS listed in the US Social Security Death Index.  Illinois Pflaums are listed here.

My paternal great-grandmother from the Pflaum side was Elisabetha FREY (1845-1880). She also was born in, and emigrated from, Unteröwisheim.  I suspect that she was already married to John Pflaum when she left Germany for the US.  The Freys are another old Unteröwisheim family with the first Frey being recorded in the local church records in 1735.

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My PFLAUM name index.

My FREY name index.