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czech spelling for "kostok" in 1880 Iowa census?

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Re: czech spelling for "kostok" in 1880 Iowa census?

ZBeca  (View posts) Posted: 5 Apr 2006 12:32PM GMT
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Mary

The census taker might have heard Leshkena for LES^TINA . I am sure you know that Czech alphabet does not changes. What you see, you pronounce and write.
I find KOSTAK surname listing in city of Praha's phone book. http://phone.quick.cz
Do you have a name of ancestral village?

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