SEVENTH GENERATION
Please note that the families on this page are tied together by hypothetical connections (indicated by words such as "poss."). Be sepecially cauious when you see the "↕" symbol. It means that the individual's position in the family could vary by a generation, in either direction.
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NOTE: It's a pretty long stretch, to believe that Johann Marcic, apparently of NW Slovenia, was related to the Marčić's of E. Slovenia; but he seems to have left a sizeable family in America, so it's worthwhile trying to see how he might fit in if he were related.
72. Ignacij Druks
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= יצחק (M)
73. Terezija (sp?) unknown (perh. = Raisa?)
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= רֵייזָא (F)
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ii. poss. Anton Druks
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= אהרון? (M)
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= אהרון? (M)
= שלמה (M)
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WERE IGNACIJ AND TEREZIJA JEWISH? I have found two major Druks/Drucks/Drux lines. The line usually spelled "Druks", found on ship manifests of those migrating to America 1890-1925, came from Austria-Hungary and seems to have originated around 1800 in eastern Galicia (now western Ukraine). Names in this line seem to fit well into the traditional Ashkenazi Jewish name system. The line usually spelled "Drucks" is from the Rhine Valley of Germany, and is probably not our line: Although the "Drucks" spelling is found on American documents in our family after 1918/25, it was spelled "Druks" on all papers before then. Immigrants often "Americanized" their names after immigration. "Druks" are glass beads, sought after by jewelers, which are a specialty of areas that were formerly part of Austria-Hungary. The name may come from this, or from some other source.
The Druks line in Slovenija goes back at least to the birth on 18 Oct. 1842 of (36) Michael Druks's son Martin (making Martin the earliest Druks of whom we have a birth record). Since the birth records in Sv. Mihael's of Šoštanj are missing for 1810-35, the Drukses may have lived there even earlier. The birthplaces of Michael and his father (72) Ignacij are unknown. The Drukses seem to have been originally established in Bursztyn, from where they spread to Slovenia in the early 1800s and to the neighboring shtetls of Rohatyn and Bołszowce around the time of the great pogroms in the 1880s.
The names found early on in our Druks line could have been either Jewish or non-Jewish. "Ignacij", for instance, was used in Galicia as a variant of "Yitzchak"; "Anton" was used for "Aharon", "Martin" for "Moses", "Peter" for Peisach", and "Terezija" may have been "Reizel". Some of these are found in the known Jewish parts of the family as "Itzig", "Nissen", "Reise", etc. (73iii) Anton's son Josef's wife, Franciska Lihtineger, had a surname common among Jews in Eastern Galicia. The name "Franciska", although of purely non-Jewish origin, was often used by Jews in the Austrian Empire.
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Hriberšek is a Slovenian name. Hrubieszów is a town in NE Galicia.
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