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Debkowski family history.



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I'm looking for the family history of my father Walter J. Debkowski
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JarGee:
Walter J. Debkowski


Born: When ?

Place of Birth: Where ?

Is he still alive ?

We need more than a name to help you.
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Correct spelling is DÊBKOWSKI (pronounced: demp-KO-ski),
derived from d±b~dêb (oak tree), probably from a locality such as Dêbki, Dêbie, Dêbia, etc.
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Pronounced demp-kov-ski actually
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Indeed, but perhaps the closest we can come without using phonetic markings would be demp-KOf-ski (the lower case "f"" indicating that the "f" sound is barely sounded and not heard at all in rapid speech).
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U r right to say that the stressed part is KO but wrong to say that it's an f sound, it lies somewhere between an f and a v but is not a pure f. In fact, it's more v if anything. No offence, but many Poles don't feel a V and F difference as I do. I teach it and see that there isn't as clear a distinction in their diction as there is in mine. This rings true for many other consonant pairs.
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Doesn't the v sound devoice before an s?
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It's still a V, say it to urself many times and u will hear that it's a V

Demp-KOf-ski sounds a bit off. Vvvvvvv is different from ffffffff. V has a vibrato resonance, f is lighter
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Devoiced isn't completely unvoiced then?
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It just means that u can't feel the vibration from ur larynx. F is almost a whispered letter
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You guys are trashing this thread.

None of your posts help JarGee trace his father's family history.
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He has the internet, he has the biggest resource out there to help him
JarGee1   Dec 3, 08, 20:07 /  #
Walter Joseph Debkowski was born in Clinton, Massachusetts on July 30, 1908

As a very young child...maybe two or three his family moved back to Poland.
He returned to this country around the age of 20 or 21
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