This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Mohnbauer Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.eeurope.slovenia.general/6571.4.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: in fact his name could have been simple also Katz in Slovenia. that time crownland Krain/Carniola of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. Katz and Zager are german names and also often usual jewish names. that time also many jews lived in that region, but they more settled in the east of the country. otherwise Trava is just in, in fact at border-region of the Gottschee/Kocevje-area a very old german settlement that time. Gottschee-resettlers-list of time of WW2 has also Zager/Zagar. Zagar Magdalena Zagar Maria Zagar Friedrich Zagar Friedrich Zagar Anna Zagar Katharina Zager Maria Zager Irma Zager Hilde http://www.gottschee.de/ click on the blue book and take in first row (Nachname)the Z and you will find them. of sure that some of them were related. itŽs not always easy to locate the places they came from as some destroyed and the other have now slovenian names.Trava is an old Gottschee-place and was named Obergras in german. and it is next to Cabar on border to Croatia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trava,_Loski_Potok http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loski_Potok http://maps.google.at/maps?hl=de&=&q=Trava, Loski Potok 1319, Slowenien&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.