Hello.  I have been following the links about the German History with great interest.  Thank you for posting them.  I have been trying to find the origin of the KAHABKA surname, sometimes spelled KAHAPKA in the older records.  My Gt-Grandmother was Theresia KAHABKA, b. 1839 in Boehmisch Domaschlag, now called Domaslav and is annexed to Leskov just E. of Plana.  In checking the records at Celiv and Bezdruzice, now on-line from the Pilzn Archives, I find several KAHABKA families in those areas back to the mid 1600s, but have been unable to connect them to my Gt-Grandmother (Anton, Martin (possibly from Setzlaw), Lorenz).  Do any of you have any ideas about where the KAHABKAs may have been before the mid 1600s and/or the origin of the surname? Thanks for any help.  I do not read German, so it is hard to decipher some of the histories, but can figure out a little from them.  Marg McEuen