Re: Tschida
in reply to a message by Lillian
It's German as you can see at http://www.ancestry.com/facts/tschida-family-history.ashx but not much more is known apparently.
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More common in Austria than Germany, and best represented close to the Hungarian border where the surname Csida is found (in Hungary, that is. None of this negates the Slavic origin theory. Bratislava, capital of Slovakia, is not far away.