November 26, 2003: Hello, Kovak Istvan!
PAPACEK/PAPASCEK in Hungarian
SOKOLA/SKOZOLA in Hungarian
Check the various spellings in your family:
with LIVING family members. Check the census:
like, in the US, like in Hungary.
ASK your family: the years of migration, emigration, immigration-- like: 1930? 1880?
Very good U.S. census for those years.
www.familysearch.org is very good
www.rootsweb.com is also very good
PAPACEK may be a CZECHOSLOVAKIAN names.
Many Czech names end in "K," with suffix,
last-letter-K. Like, "Novak."
SPANEL shows-up, appears, as a surname
in Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia was Old Bohemia.
Hungary was south-east of Czechoslovokia.
BOTH were part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire:
BEFORE 1918. WWI changed the boundaries.
Check www.google.com for PAPACEK+CZECH,
PAPACEK+Hungarian, PAPACEK+Austrian-Hungarian
Common sense tells me: PAPA may be a root word for
"father". Like, PAPACEK, possibly, as the father's name, the PATERNAL ROOT, the patronym,
the father's name, the sons' name.
TELL ME: KOVACS ISTVAN,
THE RESULTS OF YOUR RESEARCH. GOOD LUCK!
amyamysite2003@yahoo.com November 25, 2003
