Greetings, Am not at all familiar with the Slovenian language, and would appreciate some help in determining the Gender and English equivalents of these names: Gertranda Antona Ursulo Jozefa Franca Jakoba Florjan Jernej Neza The Svete / Strazisar family was from the village of Nizevec in the parish of Borovnica. Thanks very much. Pat Wood

Pat: Neza is female and a rough equivalent in English would be Agnes. My ggrandmother's Slovene name was Jozefa--she was called Josephine in the U.S. I have seen Jernej -- but will have to dig in my materials since I cannot remember off the top of my head. I have never seen Florjan or Gertranda. I THINK that to some degree you can say that a name ending with "a" is female and a name ending with "o" is male. I discovered that this is NOT a hard and fast rule when having a letter translated in 1989 that I recieved from the Archives in Lublanja. Apparently the endings of a name can be changed depending on how it is used in a sentence. Having said that I will say that I will take a stab at these names: I had an Uncle Tony in the US which in Slovene was written Anton--my guess is that Antona is the feminine of Anton. I also had an Uncle Frank in the US--his name was likewise written Franc in Slovene. My guess is that Franca is the feminine form of Franc. I have other ancestors in the US of German extraction that use the names Ursula(fem) and Jakob(male). My guess is that Ursulo is male and Jakoba if female. And using the same reasoning I would say that Gertranda is female. Who can help pat with Florjan, Gertranda and Jernei? Cherie Gardner Harmon [email protected] searchingYACHISH (settled in PA), PASICH (AL), MIKLIC (MT,NV), BLATNIK (MT,NV), KOCJAN (NV,ID,OH) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Wood" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 10:34 AM Subject: First names' translation request > Greetings, > > Am not at all familiar with the Slovenian language, and would appreciate > some help in determining the Gender and English equivalents of these > names: > > Gertranda > Antona > Ursulo > Jozefa > Franca > Jakoba > Florjan > Jernej > Neza > > The Svete / Strazisar family was from the village of Nizevec in the > parish of Borovnica. > > Thanks very much. > Pat Wood > >