In article <19970313001800.TAA28417@ladder01.news.aol.com> irv369@aol.com (IRV369) writes: > The surname Rusnok is found throughout areas of the Carpathian Mountains > from contemporary Ukraine to Moravia in Czech Republic. The surname comes > from the ethnonym RUSNAK, which designated a (male) person of Greek > Catholic or Orthodox faith or of East Slavic language. > RUSNAK is in some > places a synonym for the ethnonyms Lemko, Rusyn, etc. Today many people > in eastern Slovakia who claim Slovak nationality also use Rusnak to > designate a regional or ethnographic identity. This used to be true, but it is true no longer. In Slovakia today the word Rusnak is a synonym for Rusyn. Slovak Greek Catholics no longer refer to themselves/each other as Rusnaks, only as Slovaks. Rusnak strictly= Rusyn. Rich Custer