Eve; These two surnames are widely distributed among the Banat Frontier localities including Koenigsdorf. Dave Dreyer ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eve" <evebrown@gmail.com> To: "Dave Dreyer" <ddreyer@pacbell.net> Cc: "Banat List" <BANAT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 10:09 AM Subject: Re: [BANAT-L] Koenigsdorf-Oppowa Dave do you know if there are any Sklena or Halas listings in the Oppova/Koenigsdorf book? Eve On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Dave Dreyer <ddreyer@pacbell.net> wrote: > Jerry; > Oppowa and Koenigsdorf are the same place. Koenigsdorf is the German name > for Oppowa. And yes, Oppowa and Oppova are spelling varients of the same > place. I assume Oppowa is the prefered German version. > Keep in mind that the family book only goes to 1872 so that your guy could > have lived there after this time. > Dave Dreyer > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jerry Remillong" <jerrymandering@sbcglobal.net> > To: <banat@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 11:14 PM > Subject: Re: [BANAT-L] BANAT Digest, Vol 5, Issue 238 > > >> Dave, >> A belated thank you for checking for Remillong entries in the Koenigsdorf >> FB for >> me. I meant to originally verify that FB does include the town of Oppowa >> as I >> have seen referenced? >> >> Also that my gg-uncle spelled it "Oppova" in several places but I assumed >> that >> was the same place? Please correct me if I am mistaken. >> Thanks again, >> Jerry Remillong >> >> >