Re: Doninetz, Dimityi born 1887 married Mary Kupetz/Austria
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In reply to:
Doninetz, Dimityi born 1887 married Mary Kupetz/Austria
Mary Burgie 7/08/05
Mary,
Your first problem is to determine what ethnic group these folks belonged to.
The Austria of today is only about 25% of the old Austria that was broken up in 1920. Austria was full of minorities. About 6 or 8 major languages were spoken. If you knew what language these folks spoke when they came here you would have an approximate idea of where their homeland is today.
These folks had an Irish name that is useless outside of the US. All the names you have seemed to be americanized or, at least, phoneticized.
If you can determine the ethnicity of these folks you can then apply the old country spellings to their names.
One tip. The name "Dimityi" is East Slavic. Ruthenian or Ukrainian. If this is so they were either Greek Catholic or Orthodox. Both these ethnic groups lived in the old Austria.
Charlie