| fileppr: Re: mother fulep zsuzsanna | | Hi Michelle, nice to see you have an interest in the family history. Your great great grandfather was George which fits in with some of the earlier comments in this thread. The family history according to your great grandmother and great great aunt is that a civil engineer surnamed Philip or Phillip or some such was working on roads in Transylvania back in the 1840's or so, met a girl and decided to stay. This ancestor was supposedly German or Austrian. He allegedly changed his name to a variant of the local spelling (Filepp, Filep, Fulop) to fit in. His son was, I understand, George. George had 2 wives (he was a widower)and your great grandfather Emil John was the son of the first wife. If you're interested in this stuff we do have the tapes that your great grandmother and great aunt made describing this stuff. Give me a call sometime...hope all is well with you...uncle Bob. |
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