Thank you Janet & Elizabeth! With your dual efforts, you've cleared up a big family mystery... and I'd never seen the Hungarian name site you forwarded, Janet. The other Hungarian given name sites I checked didn't have the names Vida or Vitus. Thanks again. Carole ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janet Kozlay" <kozlay@comcast.net> To: "'Carole D. Imes'" <cimes@cfl.rr.com>; <HUNGARY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 5:39 AM Subject: RE: [HUNGARY-L] Re: Hungarian first names website > According to the website at http://www.behindthename.com/nmc/hun2.php, > Vida > as a given name is indeed the Hungarian form of Vitus. It is also a > relatively common surname. > > Janet > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Carole D. Imes [mailto:cimes@cfl.rr.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 5:08 AM > To: HUNGARY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [HUNGARY-L] Re: Hungarian first names website > > All I could find so far is that Vida is the Spanish word for life. > I'm curious about the Veger's background as most Vegers are Dutch or > French according to LDS. I definitely need to do more research on this > line. Most of > the Vegers from Sopron settled in South Bend, Indiana and many of > the descendants are still living in that area. Anyone else out there have > any connection with Vegers? > Carole Imes > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=seeeye > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Elizabeth V Cardinal" <evc1369@comcast.net> > To: "'Carole D. Imes'" <cimes@cfl.rr.com> > Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 10:17 AM > Subject: RE: [HUNGARY-L] Re: Hungarian first names website > > >>I hope someone confirms my suspicion about Vida being Vitus. >> >> Elizabeth V. Cardinal >> evc1369@comcast.net >> >> >> > > > >