---------- > From: Anne Mary C. Chapirson <Hcounter@AOL.COM> > To: GEN-SLAVIC@MAIL.EWORLD.COM > Subject: Re: Search for Scriwanek-Skrivanek > Date: vrijdag 14 maart 1997 14:58 > > In a message dated 97-03-14 03:28:24 EST, you write: > > << Thank you yes, would appreciate the addresses, although I'm afraid it is > still a wild goose chase, since I meanwhile discovered that Skrivanek is a > pretty common czech name, meaning skylark. > > Wim J. Scriwanek > 11 Tooroplaan > 3141 KN Maassluis NL > > >> > > Don't give up just because you have a common name. I have CERNY/CERNEY which > is so common it is like SMITH or JONES, but did a mail shot in Minnesota and > landed 2 cousins withing 4 days of mailing my notes. My family tree all of a > sudden went from 179 to 465 in just 6 days! > > My colateral names are just as common with the exception of 1 and I am > getting more cooperation from people with common names than I am with the > unusual name. On that one, everybody is so sure they are not related to the > others that it is like pulling teeth to get info, even though they all > immigrated to the same place in Ohio, before moving on to Iowa and Minnesota > in the same general places and actually came from the same general place in > Bohemia, from towns all within about 10 miles of each other. Best part of it > is that each family I have information on so far all can follow their > particular line back to with the same 10 year period also, just as though > they were all brothers or cousins someplace back in Bohemia. > > Annie Thanks for the moral booster