My wife is part "Hrabal" and by some quirk I served a term as President of
the family reunion group, members all over the US, but gathering each year
at the SPJST Lodge in tiny Cottonwood, a few miles from West. I suspect
that the Hrabals may have been ethnic Germans of the Sudeten/Bohemian sort.

It's a Czech name. See

http://members.tripod.com/~zlimpkk/G...hsurnames.html

Some very odd names in there.

What *does* "Nasralvhrnec" mean?

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