If we look around among the many families of the same name and ask us, which line could be related closest to us, one could think at first that these are the relatively few families named Haeberlen. This is not the case. The spelling with the "en" at the end appeared first at the beginning of the 19th century. From the 19th century on all persons of this name are known to us, also the ones who moved away. If earlier than that a member of the family moved away, it is probable that his name appears in a form which was used in Weinsberg and not in a form which developed at his new domicile.

This leads to the important question of the spelling of our name. The spelling varies for centuries as well as the secular as in the in ecclesiastical registers, even in the signatures of family members. A few examples will illustrate this: The name of the oldest traceable family member is written Heberleyn and Heberlin within the same year. In church registers we find Heberlin and Haeberlin for the same person. The form Haeberlen is more common though. In a building plan from 1707 which was made out after a great fire we find a Hannss Ulrich Haeberlin (IV,2) and a Hannss Jacob Heberlin (IV,7). Jacob Friedrich (V,3) is many times, called Haeberlen in a purchasing register, he himself signs as, Haeberlen in 1736 and 1738, in 1780 he signs as Haeberlen. In 1813 when. Johann George bought "two kitchen gardens in the lower part of the town for 5.20 gulden a piece" from his eldest brother Ludwig (VII,8), Ludwig signs as Haeberlen, his bother as Haeberlen: