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in reply to a message by Angela
Angela, we might be researching the same family. I am trying to figure out who Ilko Lepak was in later census documents. I have Kowals in the tree, also. He made several trips to the US, and was Galician.
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Kowal is a Lemko surname. (Many Lemkos would describe themselves as an ethnographic group belonging to the Ukrainian nation. Others believe they are an ethnic group distinct from Ukrainians. Galician just means from Austria Hungary's province (before 1918) - the Lemko settlement area is in the Carpathian Mountains of southeast Poland) If you look it up, you might open a whole lot of information for your research. :)
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