You guys, this is the cutest lil webpage -- I've actually never gone myself, but I just might some day soon, looks like a hoot! ...
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Peter Nagy
peternagy.geo
Jun 8, 2005 10:32 am
Bohdana, ... I read the name as: Badzó Lászlóné In Hungarian this means "wife of Badzó László". Peter -- Cilistovska 20 931 01 Samorin Slovak Republic ...
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gary.gaba@...
gargaba
Jun 8, 2005 1:48 pm
To Bohdana Badzio: Regarding the Manifest for Laszlo BADZO, I have been able to intensify it somewhat and it appears to be Christiana or Christina. I will be...
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srkrizan
Jun 8, 2005 4:09 pm
What programs do you have that help images? I have Photoshop CS would this help? Simon Richard Krizan SRkrizan@... 1.847.398.7812 fax: ...
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Michael Mojher
mgmojher
Jun 9, 2005 7:23 pm
Is there an English equivalent to the given names: Aulon and Fanor? Michael Mojher [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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EMSCRS@...
chaas622
Jun 9, 2005 7:33 pm
I don't see any, but going by the way my family's names were changed and mangled, Aulon could have become Alan. Elizabeth [Non-text portions of this message...
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Frank R. Plichta
frank.r.plichta@...
Jun 9, 2005 8:50 pm
I don't have an answer for your question but I do have some thoughts about translating names. If your ancestors were know as "Aulon" or "Fanor", than that is...
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Robert Shive
robert_shive
Jun 9, 2005 8:52 pm
This is going to be late to the discussion, but here goes. Distant Cousin appears to be a list of lists. I couldn't attest to its accuracy, but even Ancestry...
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Michael Mojher
mgmojher
Jun 9, 2005 11:07 pm
Dear Frank, I agree with the spirit of your reply. In this case someone asked me to find out what the names may be equivalent to. The only problem I see with...
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EMSCRS@...
chaas622
Jun 9, 2005 11:57 pm
Plichta. I had the impression that the person asking was trying to figure out to what their names might have been 'changed', regardless of why. My...
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Evelyn Marsh
epm22531
Jun 10, 2005 12:11 am
Thank you Elizabeth and Mick. That's exactly what I meant! Evelyn ... Plichta. I had the impression that the person asking was trying to figure out to what ...
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Frank R. Plichta
frank.r.plichta@...
Jun 10, 2005 1:25 am
Michael, I guess I missed the original request. I was commenting on the more narrow comment in your message that was simply: "Is there an English equivalent...
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Bill Tarkulich
tarkulich
Jun 10, 2005 3:35 am
Hello Michael & group, Congratulations on job well done. Thank you for picking up the torch and sharing your experiences. So many readers may never have the...
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Bill Tarkulich
tarkulich
Jun 10, 2005 3:50 am
Michael, I have never seen names like this before. I am curious to know the source document of these names and who & how the transcription was accomplished. ...
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Bratgirl54@...
mkosinar
Jun 10, 2005 4:21 am
What a wonderful adventure you had.............Someday, I hope to get there to see my newly found relatives in Brezina. [Non-text portions of this message have...
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gary.gaba@...
gargaba
Jun 10, 2005 12:46 pm
Hi Bohdana, We worked on it last night but couldn't get it much clearer than what I sent you yesterday. However, we did determine that mixed in and just above...
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Frank
frankly1us
Jun 10, 2005 3:25 pm
... more narrow ... context in ... below ... Slovak in ... above, ... church record. ... person ... "translate" a name ... Frantisck, was ... name, Frank. ... ...
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Evelyn Marsh
epm22531
Jun 10, 2005 8:08 pm
Bill, Quite a while ago a relative wrote to, I believe, the Immigration/Naturalization Dept. in Washington, DC to get her father's immigration papers. Her...
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Bill Tarkulich
tarkulich
Jun 11, 2005 1:11 am
Hi Evelyn, So this is all very good data collection. Where do you want to go from here? What do you wish to accomplish? How can we help? ______________ Bill...
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Michael Mojher
mgmojher
Jun 11, 2005 3:09 am
Bill, Thank you for your kind words about my travelogue. This was the "Reader's Digest" version. When I sit down and write the whole thing out I am sure that...
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Bill Tarkulich
tarkulich
Jun 11, 2005 11:22 am
Would love to see some of your photos. Might I suggest peppering your travelogue with a number of photos and publishing it to a web page? It would be a...
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Michael Mojher
mgmojher
Jun 11, 2005 3:11 pm
Frank, You said that all of your research has been done on your two trips to Slovakia. I was wondering how that went. From my experience I have found that I...
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Frank
frankly1us
Jun 11, 2005 3:29 pm
... Evelyn, What you wrote about a Bridgeport connection was very interesting. My theory was that given name spelled Fanor had been written with a script...
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Bill Tarkulich
tarkulich
Jun 11, 2005 5:34 pm
Hi Michael, I find that personal travel shows you the places and the way things are, while reading shows you the "why". As you well demonstrate, you need to ...
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Frank
frankly1us
Jun 11, 2005 6:51 pm
Michael and Evelyn and Bill, The major cause of incorrect given names and place names in ship manifests was the misspellings and mistranscribing by...
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Frank R. Plichta
frank.r.plichta@...
Jun 11, 2005 7:28 pm
Access to the archives was without problem. I visited, Kos^ice, Pres^ov, Bratislava and Vienna. The only place that I had any problems was in Bratislava....
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Michael Mojher
mgmojher
Jun 11, 2005 8:06 pm
Frank, I don't know if my experience at the Presov Archives was typical. Last October when I went there with my translator they said that you had to fill a...
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Michael Mojher
mgmojher
Jun 11, 2005 8:24 pm
Since my return Jackie Stitch has asked if I might help her with her genealogy. I do not have the access to resources that some of you have. I tried Ellis...
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Frank R. Plichta
frank.r.plichta@...
Jun 11, 2005 9:06 pm
Michael, I remember the booties. The archives were spic and span clean. Not a dust anywhere. They did limit me to one book at a time but I could turn one in...
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Michael Mojher
mgmojher
Jun 11, 2005 9:30 pm
Jackie's e-mail attachments did not come through on the first request. Here they are. I was able to give her the name of the river and the name of the church....
