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in reply to a message by Jim Young
There is one Skibo but no one named Szkibo listed in the online Hungarian telephone directory as you can see at http://www.matav.hu/tudakozo/index_e.html. The ancestor of the American Skibos appears to have been one John Skibo from Austria as shown at http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dbickford&id=I04114. I agree that the origin of this name is probably Slavic as there are many placenames that begin with Skib- in that area.
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Strange, I found 14 Hungarian Szkibós, for example -
§ Szkibó István Cím: Budapest, XIX. kerület 1195, Árpád utcaTelefon: (1) 280-3109,(70) 5615134
And, looking at contry of origin for Skibos arriving in the US, I found two men named Janos Skibo from Hungary.
§ Szkibó István Cím: Budapest, XIX. kerület 1195, Árpád utcaTelefon: (1) 280-3109,(70) 5615134
And, looking at contry of origin for Skibos arriving in the US, I found two men named Janos Skibo from Hungary.
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We've obviously got very different sources of information. Actually, I rechecked the online telephone directory I mentioned and found two Szkibos (I'd searched in the wrong box the first time round). Are there 14 in some other directory? As for the ones that arrived from Hungary, I found two at ellisisland.org (plus one from Austria) but not the ones you mentioned. The reason I suspect the American Skibos descend from the immigrant I mentioned before is that he had so many sons with his two wives.
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I did a search in the online directory cited in your earlier posting. There were 15 entries but one looked like a business, so I didn't include it.
rechecking the "place of origin" for Skibo on the ancestry website, I found there were three arrivals, two Hungarian and one unspecified. Perhaps this was your Austrian. Names Janos (two) and Ferencz (sic).
I am convinced that this surname is from Hungary.
rechecking the "place of origin" for Skibo on the ancestry website, I found there were three arrivals, two Hungarian and one unspecified. Perhaps this was your Austrian. Names Janos (two) and Ferencz (sic).
I am convinced that this surname is from Hungary.
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I don't think there's much doubt that the name is Hungarian but it's also not surprising that there were Skibos in Austria since it's right next door. There doesn't appear to be any there now, however.
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