Gentlemen, As much as I love history and am a historian rather than a genealogist, this topic is wandering perilously far from genealogy. The histories of...
I have been following the discussion on alias or "do" surnames and have found the dialogue to be quite interesting. I have one "alias" surname in my direct...
I am new here, my grandparents came from Humenne area (Pichne and Snina) in the early 1900's. I have found http://www.cisarik.com/index.html to be very...
David, I am not sure why you find this expression difficult. It is very plain vanilla Latin. Pretty consistent through hundreds of years of usage and the...
Barbara, Thanks for your contribution to the discussion. Do you have any context as to the use of the Lackso alias with your Varsanyik surname? For instance...
Hello, I am new here. I am not fluent in Slovak but am learning with google translate. I am hoping to find some of people in the areas of Pichne and Snina,...
On six trips to Slovakia I have traveled many of the roads in eastern Slovakia. Not the ones to Pichne or Snina. The roads are pretty good throughout eastern...
Barbara Thank you for the input. I've been aware of do names [aliases] for a long time but never realized they were more of a local custom. My research...
In 2005 the population of Pichne was 554 and Snina was 21,328. Pichne in the 1995 Census had 11 Maciboba and 16 Macibobova. There were 7 Latta and 8 Lattova,...
Hi - have 2 people listing your surnames in Picne in the Slovak Pride data base - now up to more than 31,000 listings - if you would like to get in touch with...
don't get scared - there are super trains and buses - tho Bratislava is the other end of the world from Pichne. and another good way to go is to hire someone...
... My maternal grandfather's name was Jan Ferencik. At the same time, in the same village, Krasna Horka, there were three other men with the same name. To...
Is there a way to alert the Slovakia FamilySearch powers that be that a film has been placed in the wrong online folders? I submitted a correction via their...
You did the right thing. On the other hand, for Dubrava/Dubravka, I had to enlist the support of the Presov archivist, Milan Belej, whom I know. Then, I had to...
Larry, In the villages of my ancestors when a widow remarried the children were often adopted. In that case they used a hyphenated surname. I’m not sure what...
William, Thank you for that example of the use of “do” names. Since you didn’t say so, I presume that on your grandfather’s headstone they did not use...
It was common, when a family had many children and close relatives had none, to give them the youngest of the children. Although this may be seen now as...
As Larry mentioned, It is common in the Towns in Northern Zahorie, when there were many families of the same name. to use "nicknames", when identifying which...
William I want to thank you also. As Michael says, not understanding do names or knowing that your ancestor had one could be devastating to geneaological...
I know that the Lattas and the Tereks have been in Pcoline Since 1773 at least. I do know a Latta that is from Pichne she lives in Bratislava now. Her written...
In closing I would like to thank everyone for their input. I have alot of reading to do now. If I don't find the answers I'm looking for I will post on Slovak...
Vilo Thank you... Wow,...this one is very disturbing from a genealogical point of view. Especially since the "adoption" didn't go through legal channels....
Larry, Many here have noted the matrciula records that there is a column for legit an illagit. You also note that the baby was, (most often), baptized on the...
