Hi Jon, I'm not sure how to obtain copies of the birth certificates in short order, but if you know the village where your grandfather was born, there may be...
Hi Jeanann: GYORGI is a Hungarian version of the name GEORGE. In Latin, the name GEORGE is GEORGIUS and in Slovak, the name GEORGE is JURAJ sometimes...
i was in ellis island checking out stuff and came across this; birth location: herend. what does that mean? does anyone no the englis translation for this...
All the replies were nice but no one has mentioned that Darmstadt is the City and Hesse is the German State. Frank R. Plichta Galax, Virginia P.S. to all the...
My wife's Grandmother's residence on her 1910 wedding record is listed as Holic(with a mark over the 'c') Nitrianske Slovakia. Could Nitrianske be her village...
I meant to say southeast of Bratislava, not southwest. That would place Holice in old Pozsony megye. It looks like LDS does not yet have microfilms of the...
Hi Everyone, This is an off topic email, so please forgive me. I could ask my mom and her cousins, but I don't think they would know the answers. Hence, my...
Holic is a town in Slovakia about 73 miles north of Bratislava. Holic present population is almost 13,000. I found nothing linking Nitriaske to Holic. ... ...
I have just read the notes about the naming of children in Slovakia. My grandfather's name was John and he settled in Duquesne, PA. His oldest brother, and...
Hi, Does anybody know of any such traditions for Slovak speaking families? For example in Scotish families children are carefully named after ancestors on...
David, Traditions are great when they are followed. How can you say with any degree of certainty that "Your family back then" followed the tradition? I would...
HI, I hope somebody can help or point me in the right direction to get some information.. My Grandfather (Ignatz Rudolf, Rudolph), came to the United States in...
Dear John, There are two things to consider: Slovakia was rather Hungary than Austria. There is no Schwarzenberg place name in Majtan book. Therefore I would...
Hi, When researching relatives in North America I have found newspapers for the village where they lived very intresting sources of information about the time...
Dear Kathy, There are seven places in Austria with this name Schwarzenberg. You would have to check one by one. Nothing on Internet. Church records are with...
I've just posted some photos in the (PAVLIK) folder that I wanted to share of our immigrant ancestors. My significant other's grandfather, Juraj Pavlik, born...
This sounds like a movie I would like to watch. Past history and the reality of how life was back in that day and how hard they had it too. I must admit, I...
Film Review: The Shop on Main Street (1965) Obchod na korze "An inept Slovak peasant is torn between greed and guilt when the corrupt, Nazi-backed bosses of...
USCIS Genealogy pages are now missing - anyone care to find them? The USCIS page has been recently reorganized and many good documents are now missing! -...
My great aunt Mary Beganyi came to the US in late 1904. She married John Kalnas (Kolnacz per his marriage license application) in 1908 in Catasauqua, PA....
I have tried the website MyHeritage.com and was impressed with its Beta Search Engine. You must sign up before using. It will search a given and/ or surname....
Mr.Paul Paulocsik sent me an e-mail, which I can not answer because I am treated as a spammer by his server. Vladimir Bohinc [Non-text portions of this message...
Vladimar, I am getting same message from your email server. Are you blocking email on your personal <konekta@...>. Larry Buback Note: forwarded message...
Hi June, Colomanus is most likely the Latinized form of the Hungarian name KALMAN. There is an explanation of the name, a personal name, which subsequently ...
I am curious if anyone would know what the first name, colomanus would be in english? this is how it is spelled on a baptismal record that I found on the micro...
Thank you for this info.... :) Kathi ... From: Gordon L. Grening To: SLOVAK-ROOTS@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 10:22 PM Subject: [S-R]...
I did find these Urbaria et Conscriptio, UC 27:71 (17th century); UC 49:29 (1685), UC 57:69 (18th Century), UC 82:73 (1688) but they, as the documents you...
