Re: How do you pronounce our last name?
Lindsey, Felix was my father John's brother. Is your father John or Bill?
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Re: How do you pronounce our last name?
My father is John. I just spoke with him and he said he remembers you!
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Re: How do you pronounce our last name?
First there was a girl, was her name Cathy?, I can't remember. Then Johnny, then Billy, (does he still live in Phillips)? The Dan from Michigan who replied in 2002 is my second oldest boy. My mother and most of my family pronounce the last name Repecki, with a silent z. I prefer Respecki because half the people get it right.
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Re: How do you pronounce our last name?
Mary Ann is the oldest. Her and her husband live somewhere in Western Wisconsin. Cathy is Bill's wife. They just recently sold the farm in Phillips and moved to Florida. My mom and dad live near Waukesha, WI. Anne, thier mom passed away about 3 years ago and is buried next to Felix. No one I know really lives in Phillips anymore. Just some of my dads cousins. I liked going up there as a kid. It was such a nice area.
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Re: How do you pronounce our last name?
Well you've cleared up the muddy waters a bit. Evidently the Cathy I was thinking of was a cousin on my mother's side. You also cleared up the Anne, Ann, mystery. Anne was Felix's wife and Ann was Ted's wife, the older brother. They had 2 sons, Ernie and Ted. Another brother, whose name I can't remember, died a week before I was born in 1943. I visited some people from my father's side in the Chicago area sometime in the mid-50s. My father was born in Peru, IL. They had a sister who became a nun, Sister Asumpta. You must have visited Fred Smith's Concrete Park in Phillips, that story is on my mother's side of my family.
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Re: How do you pronounce our last name?
We live in RI. My grandfather was from poland and worked in textiles. We, like you, pronounce our name Respecki. It is easier in this country. However, in Polish it is pronounced Ja'pets'cki. I wounder how we are related!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: How do you pronounce our last name?
The easiest way to explain "Rz" sound is french "j" [like "je t`aime", "jour" or smthing] I dont kow any other, similar sound in other languages. Im Polish and for me is dead easy ;)
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Re: How do you pronounce our last name?
Hello Gary, I am replying to an old post so you may not receive it. Bill is my father, Lindsey is my cousin. I've been doing some sleuthing on Ancestry. The children in the family were Helen (Sister Asumpta), Stani, Theodore, John (your father), and Felix. Yes, Felix married Anne Valiga and their children were Mary Ann, John, and William (Bill).
I am stuck on the names of the parents. I am told by dad's sister, Mary Ann, that their names were Stanely & Laura - at least these are the names on the gravestones. The census records I'm finding list names Frank & Wdadislaw Rzepecki in Illinois in 1910. All names and ages of children seem to match, but the names are off! If anyone happens to know anything about them, I'd love to hear!
By the way, we always pronounced our name Ruh-pet-ski, though heard that the Polish pronunciation was zcha-pet-ski or je-pet-ski as others have said.
-Cori
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