What is the origin and nationality of this surname? It does not come up in any of the typical "ancestry" search engines, unless you want to pay over $100.00 for a subscription.
2007-07-03 13:40:05 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
The only problem with the census, is it tells you where people came from, not necessarily the country of origin. I tried the census route. Most of the people found were born in the US.
2007-07-03 13:55:26 · update #1
I did go to those websites. This name did not come up or I had to pay to see it- hence I am throwing the question out to the masses here on Yahoo! Answers. I will check out the library though. Next stop after that, the book store.
2007-07-03 14:05:41 · update #2
It came from the former empire of Austria-Hungary. This would include nearly a dozen countries that we'd recognize today from Slovenia to Slovakia, Austria to Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania, Montenegro, Bosnia, Serbia, southern Poland, etc. Here are many of the passenger records that will help you. If you know the name of your immigrant ancestor and the year he arrived, I'd be glad to find more specific information for you on him.
http://www.ellisisland.org/search/matchMore.asp?LNM=OPEKA&PLNM=OPEKA&first_kind=1&kind=exact&offset=0&dwpdone=1
2007-07-03 14:25:14 · answer #1 · answered by GenevievesMom 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The LDS center is a Family History Center at a Mormon Church. They have records on people all over the world, not just Mormons.
You need to call your nearest Mormon Church and find out if they have a FHC and their hours for the general public. You will find most people there are not Mormon. They will not send their missionaries by to ring your doorbell.
2007-07-03 15:39:24 · answer #2 · answered by Shirley T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You gotta have it online, and for free? If you went to the library or local LDS family history center to access US census you could easily see for FREE some of the places people with that name were from. You could poke around at the FREE trees at ancestry.com, rootsweb or genforum.com or the FREE surname message boards.
FREE. All it "costs" is your name and a password. FREE.
I looked at the census myself to see what COUNTRIES people said they were from. That wasn't difficult, was it?
2007-07-03 13:49:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apparently it might Slovak/Slovene/Slovenia
http://www.iarelative.com/search/o.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/SGSIpnw/SurnameOriginIndex.html
2007-07-03 13:57:58 · answer #4 · answered by kepjr100 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋