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Subject: Re: Researching "Dobias"
Author: Sean Foglai   (guest, 24.60.10.116)
Date: November 23, 2004 at 7:45:26 PM
Reply to: Researching "Dobias" by Peter
If it is Slavic, and I found ancestory boards citing it as one ancestor with the name as Slovak than it may well be related to:

Dobra (f) -- "good."

Which I found on my Russian website ...and all of the "Dob-" words bascially had the same meaning ...

http://www.sca.org/heraldry/paul/d.html

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