I can't find the origin of my family name, what else can I do?

Question

I've googled Radnitch, and even tried Radnich, but I can't find ANYthing on the origin of the name, where can I find this out? I don't speak to my family enough to ask any of them.

My family business has nothing to do with anyone else, we didn't talk for personal reasons, they are still a part of me. Thanks for your judgement.

Answer 1

Just curious, if you don't care about your family, why do you care about your family name?
But is sounds German to me.

Answer 2

I have a subscription to ancestry.com & I put in the surname Radnich & came up with alot of names. There was a Stephen Radnich in 1860 born in Hungary. It may be possible that Radnich is Hungarian.

Let me know if you need anymore help. I will be glad to do lookups.

Anita

Answer 3

A few of the genealogy sites have message boards (free) with some helpful people. Do you know anything about the name,?

After looking on the Elis Island site:
Radnitch nothing there
radnich...is Austria-Montenegrin

Similar variations all Seem to be Eastern Euro origin.

Answer 4

The best advice I can offer is to do the usual - research your family history back generation by generation to learn for yourself where they came from.

One think you can count on is finding it the Bohemian eastern-euro Radnic, no h, or maybe a -cki. Maybe Ratnic* too. Maybe from some side of the line some time from Poland like Germany or Russia or Czech- or Austria-Hungary. Your own will be distinctly where you find it.

Answer 5

I think you can get some help from the familysearch.org they have lots of names, and by far the largest collection in the world. that same site also has other sources that will probably help you out. good luck finding your ancestors