For all of you that wanted to read Skeeter's obituary. I received this from his brother Paul Bican Laskavy Prosim Nick ... [Non-text portions of this message...
I need your help to find the town listed. I can not find it on serches I have done. I believe it to be the next town in my search of maternal ancestors,...
To all Skeeter's friends, the following was sent to me by Skeeter's brother Paul Hi Nick, As promised - the attachments are some information about my brother....
We so often get caught up in our research that we neglect to disclose to the group our successes. Please take a minute and post a summary about your research...
Does anyone know where I can get any PA vital records (preferably free)? I cannot find my grandfather on EI and am hoping to work backward with his death...
There happens to be more than one Soundex system to use. For our search a better one was developed. Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex From Wikipedia, the free...
Ellis Island is thought of as THE port of entry for most of our ancestors. Yet, many including my grandmother arrived via Baltimore (a kinder, gentler...
Very nice link to find death and some birth certificates from 100 plus years ago. http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=0 -Ludovit...
I tried out the new link that Ludovit posted, and I had the exact same reaction that I have with all similar links. I entered my gandmother's exact birth...
i'm trying to research my paternal great grandparents roots in czechoslovakia, bohemia, austria before they came to the US in 1912. I'm looking to find out...
I've seen a lot of banter here regarding searching using ellisland.org. Some people run into brick walls here. Either the immigrant never landed here, or as...
All Slovak roots members I forward sad news about one of our contributors Skeeter. He and I had become email friends and I will miss his posts to the list and...
Hallo, I have posted a file where I don't know what the placename would be. Would someone be so kind and try and read and translate the Place name on this...
... From: Ben Sorensen <cerrunos1@...> Subject: Re: [S-R] names To: SLOVAK-ROOTS@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, January 16, 2009, 8:14 AM Hello, it is...
While viewing LDS microfilm of the Levoca Archives, I found the Occupation? of the grooms. I believe it's either in Latin or Hungarian. I list them here....
I noticed the LDS has posted Hungarian Death Notices on their test page. They are mostly Hungarian citizens/nobility, but it is still interesting. This is the...
I guess there is a connection with Slovak Roots. I am not objecting to?Lee Iacocca's?message; I just wonder if it is "in scope." One perverse way to make a...
Philip Baer's e-mail brings up that big question we wish we could have answered - Why did they come? Each of us have wondered what the answer to that might be....
I have put a copy of one page from the 1869 Hungarian Census. Does anyone know what language this is written in and can you translate the answers to column 6....
I saw some variants in the database and thought I'd share what I found while researching on the internet. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi? ...
I am fairly new to this site, but have been reading the latest postings with great interest. I have found my grandfather's family in Slovakia and have had the...
For those of us with our roots in Eastern Slovakia the map that Bill has a link to is very telling. Five of the Hungarian counties: Gomor, Saris, Szepes, Ung...
As many of you know the LDS Family History Library is digitizing all of its microfilms. I was wondering what they were going to do with the old microfilms...
I have received a lot of ideas to find my grandmother Anna Plavcan. Now I would like to find information on her 2nd husband, Joseph Parra. I have tried off and...
There's another Bill in Poland area. I'm trying to locate it. Basia **************New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making headlines....
I have learned of the Google Translate website - http://translate.google.com/ I used it to translate a few sentences from English into Slovak. Then I sent them...
