This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lRC.2ACE/3505.1 Message Board Post: Maureen A map of Austria-Hungary: http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/austhung.htm The records up to 1918 would say Austria or Hungary. Being that on 1910 and 1920 census they said Slovak I think your research might be in Slovak Republic. Speaking "German" they could have ment the Spis region of Slovakia. What else does the 1930 census say? Were they Na-naturalized or Al-alien? I take it you do not have a place of birth? Slovak Republic's phone book is listing DUGAS. www.zoznamst.sk Did you take a look at DUGASs and DUGASZ (Hungarian spelling of Dugas) that came thru Ellis Island? www.ellisislandrecords.org www.iabsi.com/gen/public All there for research in SK.