The "Nicole Factor" Is Online

Welcome to the Nicole Factor at blogspot.com.

Google and FOX News

Loading...

About Me

My Photo
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
I was born in the 90's, have cerebral palsy, and am a Jewish Christian/Messianic Jew . Being a Messianic with cerebral palsy is not easy in American or any culture. But that's why, as a Messianic, I keep up with news and politics. I want to watch and pray as to not fall into temptation and to prepare myself and others for any event. By the way, they automatically added my horoscope sign.

Share This (If You Want)

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Or Did the Fockos Get "Focko" Forced on Them? Given Travel Distance...

Genealoj probably has the more likely theory (and Kevin is a Levi):

"
In some countries, such as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Jews were forced to take surnames with a German appearance, and they usually could not choose them. These arbitrary family names have no relationship whatsoever with either the trade or craft, nor the physical description, nor the geographic origin of the person so named. We have already quoted SCHWARZ, WEISS, GROSS, KLEIN, and ROTH. But there are also a long series of names formed with two German roots such as MORGENSTERN, MORGENSTEIN, APFELBAUM, BIRNBAUM, ROSENBERG, ROSENBLUM, ROSENBAUM, WEINBAUM, WEINBERG..... Note that the spelling of these names varies considerably, especially when they transited through Poland or Russia."





So, the theory that the Fockos who did not become Anusim left Slovakia for Poland stands.

0 comments: