Thanks again Marika, all possibilities I am willing to try. I have worked on the name Grofcsik and Bakó since 1980 and will continue searching as long as I can until I find them. They keep trying to hid from me, but the Nancy Drew in me won't say Uncle! LOL! This list is the best one ever!!!!! Sharon Message: 1 Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 06:59:10 EDT From: MLPecsi@aol.com Subject: Re: [HUNGARY] The Occurrence of Magyar Surnames in Stropkov To: hungary@rootsweb.com, HUNGARY@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <107b30.6f436d8.3989507e@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" In a message dated 8/2/2010 1:50:48 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, tiszadada@comcast.net writes: Thanks again Marika, this can possibly be very helpful in finding my elusive great grandmother Rozalia Grofcsik. Sharon Don't mean to send you off on a "wild goose chase", but a nice research diversion. Did you know the prefix on your ggmother's name, Grof means the title Earl or Count in Hungarian and Slav? Here is a nice Heraldry site for titles: _http://www.heraldica.org/faqs/titel.htm_ (http://www.heraldica.org/faqs/titel.htm) Marika