dodieg ERMIS/GERMIS: Quite possibly Ermis/Germis are two versions of the same name. Ermis probably dervied from the German name Herman. The letter 'h' often got dropped. In the Polish/Ruthenian broderlands names starting in 'h' often produced a 'g'. Hitler's nameis written as Gitler.
EICHWALDT is derived from the German word for oakwood; the proper spelling would be Eichwald without the final 't', but with names most anything is possible..
ZAWADA means obstacle in Polish. Zamada was probably a misspelling based on someone misreading the humps of the letter 'w'. There are dozens of localities in Poland called Zawada.
Hello, my maternal grandmother is partially Czech (from Wołyń), and I've been wondering where her Czech ancestors came from. So far, I understand that most came from Moravia and Cieszyn Silesia? The "Czech" surname in our family is "Tuhy" which means solid, but the ancestor spelled it "Tugy", as a Cieszyn Silesian would. Anyway, do you know where the Czech settlers of Galicia came from? I know why already.
