There are also 12 SMAILA listings in Croatian phone book. http://www.htnet.hr/imenik/fset.html Robert Jerin "Robert Jerin" <rjerin@adelphia.net> wrote in message news:DYVJa.16044$Jw6.6870446@news1.news.adelphia.net... > > "email" <mastera@iprimus.com.au> wrote in message > news:3ef7eaaf$0$30454$45beb828@newscene.com... > > Any help with this surname? There are some Smaila surnames in Slovenia but > I > > am interested to find out about the origin of this surname. Thank you. > > > > Hello email! > > You may wish to try the Slovenia magazine online (which I believe is now > defunct) archives. There is a 4 part series about Slovenian surnames. The > link below is to the 1st part, to find the others just change the address by > adding, 2, 3 and 4 after the word surname in the address. > > http://slovenija-magazine.com/arhiv/surnames.html > > The only listings for SMAILA found in Ellis Island records appear to be > arriving from Slovenia and Italy (near the Slovenian border perhaps) > > The Slovenian online phone book shows only 1 SMAILA but more SMAILAGIC. > > http://tis.telekom.si/default.asp?LANG=EN > > The Italy phone books show 19 SMAILA listings. > > http://www.infobel.com/italy/ > > There are 9 SMAILA and 18 SMAILAGIC in US phone listings at Switchboard.com > > http://www.switchboard.com/ > > Also you may wish to post your query to a board which is more active than > this one. It appears that this message board is neglected by whomever is in > charge and does not get many posters! > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/board/an/localities.eeurope.slovenia.gener > al > > http://genforum.genealogy.com/slovenia/ > > Robert Jerin > Croatian Heritage Museum > Cleveland Ohio > http://www.croatia-in-english.com/rj/index.html > >