Hello Juarj, You are correct, Ethel is not Slovak. I believe it's English. No one was obliged to take a commonly transliterated name. In fact, many people chose entirely new given names. Here http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/sc/oconee/misc/foreign-names.txt are the more traditionally used names. Bill Tarkulich > -----Original Message----- > From: jurajtkac@juno.com [mailto:jurajtkac@juno.com] > Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 12:18 PM > To: SLOVAKIA-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Given name equivalents > > > Hello List, > > I finally found grandmother on the Ellis Island site, wherein > she is travelling with her new born 10 month old daughter. > The daughter's given name is recorded as AMALIE but she (my > aunt) has always been known as ETHEL. I may be wrong but I do > not think ETHEL is a Slavic given name. Could it be an > English equivalent? If not I will have to look elsewhere for > an explanation. > > Have a great life, > Juraj > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online > genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=> 1237 >