Posted By:	Anne Lukenda
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	Subject:	Martin Pirnat from Vrhnika.
	Post Date:	June 21, 2004 at 09:32:25
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/pender/messages/505.html
	Forum:	Pender Family Genealogy Forum
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Isn't that a marvelous name for a town? No vowels whatsoever....pronounced vir (as in veer) ni (as in knee) ka. My husband tells me that we once had lunch just a few miles from this village-beside a lovely, absolutely green river. It was a beautiful place-peaceful and gorgeous. He further tells me the Pirnat family may have Jewish roots-dating back to the Sephardim emmigration from Spain in 1492. But that's not sure-in any case many of them converted to Catholicism subsequently.