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Subject: Re: origin of the surname Sebesta
Author: Jim Young   (guest, 213.249.129.2)
Date: March 29, 2006 at 11:52:29 AM
Reply to: origin of the surname Sebesta by Andrew Rapp
It looks like it's a variant of the given name Sebastian, and, according to the Oxford Dictionary of Surnames, it is - Czech, pronounced SHEBesta, and marked accordingly (a mark like a small shallow v over the first S.

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