I have been in contact with an individual in Germany with the same last name, "Prells". He says that there are many roots from the Prell surname, but very few with the Prells surname in Germany. He is currently researching his ancestory to see if there is a link to mine. I believe that my surname did change to Prell from Prells, but don't have any proof except for the U.S. Ohio Census and marriage records. I don't necessarily believe those records yet. I would like to find one or two more records pointing to the Prells surname.

I have looked in Siebmacher's Wappenbuch, which contains all of the known German crests with descriptions, and could not locate a coat-of-arms for the Prells surname.