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| St. Ruprecht - Peterlin |
| Author: Charles Wardell (Webmaster) Date: 12 Sep 1998 |
| Board: Boards > Localities > Central Europe > Austria > Provinces > Lower Austria |
| I don't know of a St. Ruprecht in Lower Austria.
There are a number of St. Ruprecht:
Sankt Ruprecht, Kärnten, Austria ( Carinthia)
Sankt Ruprecht ob Murau, Steiermark, Austria (Styria)
Sankt Ruprecht a... |
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| Twimberg |
| Author: Charles Wardell (Webmaster) Date: 01 May 1998 |
| Board: Boards > Localities > Central Europe > Austria > General |
| I think you might be looking for Twimberg rather than Twinberg.
There appear to be three places/villages with that name in Kaernten ( Carinthia) according to the Austrian Phone phone directory. Near on... |
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| Kärnten |
| Author: Charles Wardell (Webmaster) Date: 12 Sep 1998 |
| Board: Boards > Localities > Central Europe > Austria > General |
| Kärnten is Carinthia not Lower Austria. See index of provinces on AustriaGenWeb (link below). |
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| Re: TRAMPITSCH |
| Author: Richard Camaur Date: 17 Apr 1998 |
| Board: Boards > Localities > Central Europe > Austria > Kuestenland |
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Your ancestor, Franz TRAMPITSCH,came from Carinthia (Kärnten), not Küstenland, which was the province of old Austria between Carinthia and the Adriatic. However, to respond to your query, all vital r... |
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| Grandparents |
| Author: Frank Kurchina (Webmaster) Date: 17 Mar 1999 |
| Board: Boards > Localities > Eastern Europe > Croatia > General |
| For research purposes it would have been better if your GPs had been
born in Croatia, rather than in Slovenia, because the LDS-Mormons have
microfilmed the parish church records in Croatia.
Retje is ... |
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| Dulcich name |
| Author: Frank Kurchina (Webmaster) Date: 20 Mar 1999 |
| Board: Boards > Localities > Eastern Europe > Croatia > General |
| What you wrote suggests surname was from the Dalmatia
coast region of Croatia ?
The Croats crowned Ladislas (a Neapolitan prince) as
king of Croatia in
1403 and he promptly sold Dalmatia to Venice, w... |
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| Penteker, Pignet, Pigneter |
| Author: Fritz Königshofer Date: 07 Feb 1999 |
| Board: Boards > Localities > Central Europe > Austria > General |
| All these names are quite rare. However, please have a look for yourselves in the Austrian on-line telephone directory at www.etb.at
From the distribution, these names appear to be different. Penteke... |
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| Wadlegger/Spittal/Carinthia |
| Author: Fritz Königshofer Date: 03 Jan 1999 |
| Board: Boards > Localities > Central Europe > Austria > Provinces > Styria |
| There are several places with the name Spital in Austria, but only one spelled Spittal. This is Spittal an der Drau, located in Upper Carinthia. A quick review of Wadleggers from the Austrian phone bo... |
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| JURISICH >Poulje, Dalmacija |
| Author: Frank Kurchina (Webmaster) Date: 17 Jun 1999 |
| Board: Boards > Localities > Eastern Europe > Croatia > General |
| Poulje, Croatia is located 80 miles SW of Zagreb on otok (island) KRK,
about 2 miles from S^ilo.
This is in the general region of Rijeka, Croatia.
Dalmacija (Dalmatian) coast traded hands between Aust... |
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| Were they here? |
| Author: Frank Kurchina (Webmaster) Date: 28 Jul 1999 |
| Board: Boards > Localities > Eastern Europe > Croatia > General |
| Social Security Death Index Search
The SSDI lists 14 surname Gahn.
Charles (1888-1970) is listed.
Julia (1888-1980) is listed.
Write Letter under Request.
The copy of SS application form SS-5 usua... |
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| Family origins? |
| Author: Frank Kurchina (Webmaster) Date: 05 Aug 1999 |
| Board: Boards > Localities > Eastern Europe > Croatia > General |
| Before WWI, the Austrian Empire stretched from Austria to Montenegro in
the Balkans, including part of current Romania, part of Poland,
and part of the Ukraine.
What is required to research surname is... |
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| ZAGAR FAMILY |
| Author: Frank Kurchina (Webmaster) Date: 05 Nov 1999 |
| Board: Boards > Localities > Eastern Europe > Croatia > General |
| 278 surnme Zagar are listed in the Social Security Death Index.
This suggests at least 500-750 surname bearers living just in the U.S.
Are surnames listed in the Index ?
Were surnames naturalized ?... |
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| SCHARFEGGER |
| Author: Charles Wardell (Webmaster) Date: 07 Jun 1999 |
| Board: Boards > Localities > Central Europe > Austria > General |
| There are still plenty of SCHARFEGGERs in Carinthia -- and some are in Klagenfurt. See phone directory tips below.
I suggest you post your query on the Carinthia query board if that is the area your r... |
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| Luschnig |
| Author: Christina Fairman Date: 10 Jul 1999 |
| Board: Boards > Localities > Central Europe > Austria > General |
| Would anyone have information on the name Luschnig? My grandfather was Viktor Luschnig who lived from the late 19th century to about the 1970s; he married Paula Berger in Carinthia (southern Austria),... |
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| Einöd, Gasser, Grechenig |
| Author: Fritz Königshofer Date: 24 Aug 1999 |
| Board: Boards > Localities > Central Europe > Austria > Provinces > Styria |
| There are several places Einöd in Austria, of which once again several are in Styria. The village name means something like "remote and forlorn place."
The place you are looking for might be the haml... |
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| Drozdowski |
| Author: KathyReichart Date: 12 Nov 1999 |
| Board: Boards > Surnames > Drozdowski |
| Found 2 marriage certificates in Reading Berks County PA. Josephine Drozdowski married John Klich in 1903 her place of birth is listed Austria Poland. Her guardian was Thomas Drozdowski. Thomas Drozdo... |
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| Antwort |
| Author: Walter Raming Date: 14 Jan 2000 |
| Board: Boards > Surnames > Ebner |
| My grandfather Raffael Ebner, born 24.10 1866 in Bleiberg, Carinthia, Austria, emigrated ca 1900 and married again.
The names of his childrens: ANNA Leopoldine Ebner, born 25.10.1894
Leopoldine Ebner, ... |
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| Seeboden |
| Author: Charles Wardell (Webmaster) Date: 14 Mar 2000 |
| Board: Boards > Localities > Central Europe > Austria > General |
| I have sent you by separate mail a list of Sereinigs near Seeboden.
Seeboden is in the province of Carinthia. Please see:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~autkae/
and post your query using Carinthia Queries... |
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| Pasterk and Primoschütz |
| Author: Fritz Königshofer Date: 20 Apr 2000 |
| Board: Boards > Localities > Central Europe > Austria > Provinces > Styria |
| Please take a look at the Austrian on-line phone directory at www.etb.at . Your names clearly point to the south of Austria (Styria and even more so Carinthia) and a Slovenian origin. Today, the secon... |
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| Christoph Wilhelm Locher |
| Author: RHalligan6868 Date: 26 Apr 2000 |
| Board: Boards > Surnames > Locher |
| ...My Great great grandfather was Christoph Wilhelm LOCHER, born 13 Jun 1819 in
Zurich Switzerland. I believe his parents were John Jacob LOCHER and
Catherine PFENNINGER. Christoph married Caroline Aug... |
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| Luschnig Family or Primitz |
| Author: Erika Date: 23 May 2000 |
| Board: Boards > Localities > Central Europe > Austria > General |
| I would be so happy to find out more about the above families.My Grandfather was born in Eberndorf/ Carinthia/ Austria.
Please contact me by e-mail if you have any information or suggestions on how to f... |
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| Potutschnig |
| Author: Fritz Königshofer Date: 18 Jun 2000 |
| Board: Boards > Localities > Central Europe > Hungary > General |
| The best I can say is that the name is of ethnically Slovenian origin, and probably from a region in today's southern Austria and/or Slovenia. In Austria, the name is still mostly present in Styria an... |
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| Grandfather's Family - Metlika? |
| Author: Frank Kurchina (Webmaster) Date: 10 Oct 2000 |
| Board: Boards > Localities > Eastern Europe > Croatia > General |
| Don't know your surnames.
In most Slavic languages the letter j is pron. y.
For example, (former) Jugoslavija = Yugoslavia.
Metlika, Slovenija is a special case.
The parish of Vovodina Vivodina lies... |
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| family history |
| Author: Frank Kurchina (Webmaster) Date: 22 Oct 2000 |
| Board: Boards > Localities > Eastern Europe > Croatia > General |
| Before WW I, the Austro-Hungarian Empire stretched from Austria
to Montenegro in the Balkans.
Following the First World War, new borders for Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
were set by the Treaties of Sain... |
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| Medwed message board |
| Author: Christoph MEDWED Date: 02 Nov 2000 |
| Board: Boards > Surnames > Medwed |
| Aloha from Hawaii !
My name is Christoph Medwed and I was born and raised in Austria . My father`s family is from Carinthia (Kaernten).Our name is of slovenian and previous russian origin . Who know`s... |
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