I am researching Dragicevic of Rudopolje and tried something that may be of interest. Using the pacbell website I browsed all the male surnames in the Ellis records that begin in Drag, all 5281 of them. I found that many names and places were either mis- spelled or were not transcribed correctly. For example, Ellis has a _osa Drageceaic from Rudoployc. I looked at the manifest and it is clearly a Boso Dragicevic from Rudopolje. Obviously this was very time consuming but the point is that it would be worth it to check all possible spellings of a name before giving up. By the way, most surnames beginning in Drag are Italian, 1000's of them. Jim Malecki
FL4299@aol.com wrote: > > I am researching Dragicevic of Rudopolje and tried something that may be of > interest. > Using the pacbell website I browsed all the male surnames in the Ellis > records that > begin in Drag, all 5281 of them. I found that many names and places were > either mis- > spelled or were not transcribed correctly. For example, Ellis has a _osa > Drageceaic > from Rudoployc. I looked at the manifest and it is clearly a Boso Dragicevic > from > Rudopolje. Obviously this was very time consuming but the point is that it > would be > worth it to check all possible spellings of a name before giving up. By the > way, most > surnames beginning in Drag are Italian, 1000's of them. > Jim Malecki There are Croatian Italian surname bearers who ancestors never set foot in Italy proper. Some Croats had two surnames, a Croatian surname and an equivalent Italian family name. Some Croatian surnames bearers had Italian first names. Dragic^evic' (C) Click on Italian flag to right of Dïartibale at URL below : http://surnames.italiangenealogy.com/ More Slavic surnames begin with the initial letter K than other letter. Italian has no letter K and uses the letter C instead. [letter 'C' (before e/i) is pron. as phonetic ch letter 'C' (before a/o/u) is pron. as phonetic k] Some Italians insist my own surname name is Cucina (koo-CHEE-na) meaning 'kitchen, cuisine' in Italian, which it is not and it doesn't mean. v Frank Kurcina