| bzag: Re: Podzabany | I assumed up to this point that Podzabany was the Americanized form of that surname, although I'm sure you have taken that into account in your latest search. When I get all my records together I can provide better info.
It is possible that Podzabany did not come from Dolny Kubin, but I am fairly certain his wife did - I have to dig up her surname (I could never get the spelling right, but I have their marital certificate or copy thereof somewhere - her surname was something like Dierczyk - please pardon my abominable knowledge and spelling).
Also, Ellis Island was reserved for new emigres, wasn't it? Meaning if someone had gone through once before but had traveled back to Europe one or more times, then those travels would not bring him to Ellis, right? So if Podzabany showed up in Ellis Island in 1892 it would not show him coming back again in a later year, yes? I suspect this was true of my great grandfather, and I have been told that my grandfater also had traveled back and forth to the USA a few times also, before my grandmother had emigrated. I'll know more when I get my papers together - won't be for a few days... BZ.
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