In a previous article, [email protected] ("gloria14") says: >Our entire family has hit a brickwall in determining where our grandfather >originated from. He had no living relation (that we are aware of) and was >supposed to have come from either Bohemia or Germany around the turn of the >century and settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was born on May 18, 1882 >and rumor has it that he had a brother who died in "the old country." >After much searching by several members of our family, we are no further >than when we started. Anyone recognize this name "Mikula" and/or know where >it originates from? Thank you. > Mikula is of Slavic origin and means Nicholas, the given-name. That would tend to support an origin in Bohemia rather than Germany, though it often happens that surnames cross borders when one least expects it. BTW Bohemia is not the only possibility in the Slavic speaking world, but it was the only one mentioned in the above posting. -- Gary N. Deckant [email protected] Youngstown, Ohio