This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Vrba Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lRC.2ACE/2318.505.1.2 Message Board Post: I know lots of Soukups who lived in West, Texas. The name was and is pronounced sou-cup. I am also searching Vrba. My ggrandfather John emigrated to Texas in 1884. We have the ship's passage record, but no hometown. Tradition has it that he was from Kynice,Bohemia, but we have no definite proof as yet, June