"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