I hope people on this list forgive me for saying the word "Rusyn" every time I write to the list, but to tell you the truth, that is what I know the most about. Lou -- the ending -ak is common for Rusyn surnames, see http://www.slovakia.org/society-rusyn.htm . A "clincher" for being Rusyn is that the family's religion was Greek Catholic, or Orthodox (Christian). To see the area where Rusyns mostly settled, there is an archived map here: http://web.archive.org/web/20060220030438/carpatho-rusyn.org/map.htm . I don't know why the carpatho-rusyn.org website has been down, but it is still available in the web.archive.org. If you click on that map you will see a bigger map. As you can see, Rusyns were in the NE part of historical Hungary, as well as areas that are now in Poland, etc. - Elaine On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 3:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:46:25 -0400 > From: "LOUIS M. BARSI" <[email protected]> > Subject: [HUNGARY] REMAK SURNAME > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Good Evening, Listers. > > Does anyone know if there is/was a particular part of Hungary in which the > REMAK surname was prevalent? And whether or not is was a common surname or > was unusual? > > Thank you. > Lou Barsi > > >