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I am Marvin Rippner age 68. I live in FL and my father Harry Rippner was born in CT in 1910. His father was Max, Mother Jennie, grandfather was Martin Rippner. Max had kids, Harry, Phillip, Mollie and Earl. I tried in the 80's to start a geneology but came to a roadblock. Trying to connect our Rippners to the others that came to Ellis Island and stayed in the area or went to Cleveland, OH. I also could not connect to our family any further than great-grandpa Martin. My dad told me we came from Oradea which is now in Romania. He was Hungarian as was all of his family. Connect with me so I can find more about the Rippners. I found many in OH and CA and LA. I saw one of the Rippners in this post has the same birthdate as me, Dec 10th!
From what I had gathered the name is and was RIPPNER, however, based on pronunciation at the port(s) of entry by the old timers with an accent, it is listed as Ripner with one P and Reepner, the ee"s coming with a rolling R of course, Rittner, Ritner, and Rapner. The officials at the ports could have also misinterpreted the last name based on the old timers dialect. All Hunkies and Jews. But, I found a man named Julius Rippner in Port Huneme, CA that said he was Catholic. He didnt know why but I can figure he said he came here in 1956 which I think was the time of Hungary being taken over in a revolution. Then families changed religions in order to forgo being arrested. All of the Rippners of my clan spoke fluent Hungarian, Hebrew and Yiddush.