1. In 2001 there was a post to the Feuerbacher RootsWeb mailing list from Richard Fabacher. He wrote: "A few years ago, I got some ICQ (chat room) messages from a Fabacher family from France temporarily working/residing in Athens, Greece at the time. The father said the name "FABACHER" was relatively common along the France/Germany border. So apparently the "FA-" spelling is not an English corruption of another spelling, but a European variant. He indicated that most of the present-day European Fabachers were French, not German, but nationality and language in that region changed frequently because of perpetual wars there."
Further research has indicated that this is a true statement. A message from someone in the Fabacher family in New Orleans indicates that their family originated along the German/French border and they can trace their family back to French roots. This seems to disprove the family legend that somehow we are related to the Fabachers of the Jackson Brewery in New Orleans.