Hello, ><HTML><PRE>Subject: Slama >From: [email protected] >Date: Fri, Jul 10, 1998 06:56 EDT >Message-id: <[email protected]> > >I am looking for information on the surname: SLAMA. The surname Slama has its origins in Bohemia and is a transliteration of the Latin "slamus" (to go fast, hit, overpower) which developed as a slang word in Roman times to describe eating a quick breakfast among the German barbarians before their raids on the Roman Empire. Hence the Native-American term "slamdunk" as in basketball which they played before the slaves moved to the United States. Slama as a surname is recorded as early as the year 1412 in the village of Kruszwica, Kujawy region, Poland of which there is still the toothless widow pani Katarzyna Slamowa living there today. Other similar spellings you may encounter in your gynecological research are Slam, Slamdunk (Harlem), Slami (Italy), Slomae (Hebrew), Swami (India), Sluma (South Bronx), Slima (Ethiopia) etc. Keith A. Kaszubik Researching Jan (Jack) Dupakowski from Warsaw who emigrated to Nevada in 1947 settled in Roswell. Descended from nobility.