Dennis, Thank you for your excellent suggestions. I have always wondered about those REMAX advertisements. John and his wife Elizabeth were married in Hungary before they left for America. I will check on the marriage information although it will be a bit difficult since it is not until child number four that there was a marriage. I appreciate you help very much. Sincerely, Lou Barsi On 6/18/09, Dennis Benarz <benarz@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Lou > > No, but you will find REMAX signs in front yards and in business windows in > SE Poland. REMAX is now a global real estate firm with offices in Krakow, > Bielsko-Biala, and Zakopane in the former Austrian Crownland of Galicia. > > I think the surname REMAK has been Americanized. The best way to determine > its original form would be to visit or contact the rectory of the parish in > which he married in North America and obtain a copy of his marriage record. > That marriage record will contain a whole bunch of interesting information > including his parents' names, his home village and home diocese plus the > same information regarding his bride. It is certainly worth the price of > the > donation that you'll make to the parish in exchange for it. (If he didn't > marry in North America, then obtain of their children's baptismal records > or > a marriage record copy of your earliest ancestor who did marry in North > America. Keep in mind that you want a copy of the actual entry, not a > certificate of any kind.) > > We could speculate on what the surname was, but that really wouldn't get > you > any closer to the real truth. It could have been any one of a number of > surnames, including REMDZIAK (in 1990, 3 resided around Tarnobrzeg), REMIEC > (in 1990, there were 8 around Krosno) and REMSAK (in 1990, 60 around > Bielsko-Bialy and 2 around Rzeszow). > > Now, if you decide not to follow my suggestion about securing that parish > marriage record, then you might begin your search around Bielsko-Biala > where > there's both a REMAX office and 60 folks named REMSAK. You just might get > lucky. But, then again, maybe not. > > Cheers and good luck in your endeavor! > > Dennis Benarz > http://spuscizna.org/ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "LOUIS MICHAEL BARSI" <4701connecticut@gmail.com> > To: <GALICIA@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 2:47 PM > Subject: [GALICIA] REMAK SURNAME > > > > Good Afternoon, List Members, > > > > Has anyone heard of the REMAK surname anywhere in Galicia? My Great > > Grandfather was born somewhere in Galicia about 1870, but I have no idea > > where. > > > > I would appreciate any clues or suggestions. > > > > Thank you. > > > > Lou Barsi > > ********************************* > > ********************************* > Need to contact the list manager? Write to Marie at > GALICIA-admin@rootsweb.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GALICIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Dennis, We have both been "otherly abled" for almost the same amount of time-- I since July 2001. Often we don't know how fortunate we are. I was supposed to die, but for some reason, I didn't. And now that summer is almost here, I can go out and do some minor things again. I tend to be very forgetful, but it's better than the alternative. Stay well. Lou On 6/18/09, LOUIS MICHAEL BARSI <4701connecticut@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dennis, > > Thank you for your excellent suggestions. I have always wondered about > those > REMAX advertisements. John and his wife Elizabeth were married in Hungary > before they left for America. I will check on the marriage information > although it will be a bit difficult since it is not until child number four > that there was a marriage. I appreciate you help very much. > > Sincerely, > Lou Barsi > > > On 6/18/09, Dennis Benarz <benarz@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Lou > > > > No, but you will find REMAX signs in front yards and in business windows > in > > SE Poland. REMAX is now a global real estate firm with offices in Krakow, > > Bielsko-Biala, and Zakopane in the former Austrian Crownland of Galicia. > > > > I think the surname REMAK has been Americanized. The best way to > determine > > its original form would be to visit or contact the rectory of the parish > in > > which he married in North America and obtain a copy of his marriage > record. > > That marriage record will contain a whole bunch of interesting > information > > including his parents' names, his home village and home diocese plus the > > same information regarding his bride. It is certainly worth the price of > > the > > donation that you'll make to the parish in exchange for it. (If he didn't > > marry in North America, then obtain of their children's baptismal records > > or > > a marriage record copy of your earliest ancestor who did marry in North > > America. Keep in mind that you want a copy of the actual entry, not a > > certificate of any kind.) > > > > We could speculate on what the surname was, but that really wouldn't get > > you > > any closer to the real truth. It could have been any one of a number of > > surnames, including REMDZIAK (in 1990, 3 resided around Tarnobrzeg), > REMIEC > > (in 1990, there were 8 around Krosno) and REMSAK (in 1990, 60 around > > Bielsko-Bialy and 2 around Rzeszow). > > > > Now, if you decide not to follow my suggestion about securing that parish > > marriage record, then you might begin your search around Bielsko-Biala > > where > > there's both a REMAX office and 60 folks named REMSAK. You just might get > > lucky. But, then again, maybe not. > > > > Cheers and good luck in your endeavor! > > > > Dennis Benarz > > http://spuscizna.org/ > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "LOUIS MICHAEL BARSI" <4701connecticut@gmail.com> > > To: <GALICIA@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 2:47 PM > > Subject: [GALICIA] REMAK SURNAME > > > > > > > Good Afternoon, List Members, > > > > > > Has anyone heard of the REMAK surname anywhere in Galicia? My Great > > > Grandfather was born somewhere in Galicia about 1870, but I have no > idea > > > where. > > > > > > I would appreciate any clues or suggestions. > > > > > > Thank you. > > > > > > Lou Barsi > > > ********************************* > > > > ********************************* > > Need to contact the list manager? Write to Marie at > > GALICIA-admin@rootsweb.com > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > GALICIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ********************************* > Need to contact the list manager? Write to Marie at > GALICIA-admin@rootsweb.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GALICIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Louis, Your ancestors are from either Slovakia or Transcarpathian Ukraine. Galicia was never part of Hungary. Several people in the past, e.g. Mary Snow, have directed you to explore Slovakia, etc., and you have not followed the suggestions. _______ Lavrentiy Krupniak LOUIS MICHAEL BARSI wrote: > > Dennis, > > Thank you for your excellent suggestions. I have always wondered about those > REMAX advertisements. John and his wife Elizabeth were married in Hungary > before they left for America. I will check on the marriage information > although it will be a bit difficult since it is not until child number four > that there was a marriage. I appreciate you help very much. > > Sincerely, > Lou Barsi