I have not been able to find any census except for the 1910. I do have the funeral record of Peter and his father Nicholas (who is called Michael in some...
From what I know, they were Roman Catholic at least the church associated with the cemetery where they were buried is Roman Catholic and I know my late husband...
You mentioned that the original spelling could be Miklos. In the 1995 Slovak Census there were listings for 1531 Miklos in 329 locations. To further confuse...
Just wanted to say thanks for a wonderful discussion.! This has introduced me to a part of Slovak history I was not familiar with, and any time I can learn...
The block where the words you want translated is where the parents names are given, as you stated. In this case no father is listed. The only word I got a...
Bob, It simply says 'father not known [disclosed]' . What you thought was a cross is the letter "t" of the word tudattak, which is the one meaning disclosed...
Dear Bob: Are you able to post the page of the records? I have searched through the records before, and compiled a lot of information, but unfortunately, my...
I am wondering what the citizenship status of my Grandfather would have been during WW II when Slovakia was technically an enemy country. Since he immigrated...
Glad you were able to locate the great grandfather's birth record. The handwriting there was pretty difficult to make out. Was the birth date close to what...
Miklos is for Nicholas, relating to Mikulas or St Nicklaus and Santa Claus. For years I thought my middle name translated to Michael. There are quite a few...
Art wisely asked the same question on Slovak World, where Prof. Votruba provided one of his usual thorough answers. Since S-W and S-R overlap a bit but do not...
Ladi, All I can remember is that the extremely bad treatment of Czechs after the invasion was due to the evictions of Sudetenland Germans right after the...
AZ Atya = Not the FatherĀ Ā On the next page at the bottom are 2 more illegitimate children listed Z Bohom, Vilo ________________________________ From: Robert...
Vilo, Only to keep history straight on this forum and not put out partial stories, I must once again disagree with you. As far as I know from conventional...
Bill did a marvelous job in keeping this site going after we lost contact with Maura Petzolt (her absence has also been felt on the SHAMROCK list she started...
Could someone please look at the following record on Family Search: Slovakia Church Records, Roman Catholic, Sabinov, Narsany, page 141. I am particularly...
Nancy, I looked at it and I think : in the second column is the name of the priest performing the baptism, The baptisan, and I believe It says : Michael...
Nancy, http://homepages.bmi.net/~latin/ This link will give you the meaning of the column headings in Latin, Hungarian and Slovak. I read line 2 for the...
I just uploaded two files labeled Maria Czmorej Scan 2 and Scan 3. I have struggled with interpreting the writing under her name for some time to no avail. I...
Hello Bill, Those images are pretty well buried in your upload. If you got these online, then it is much easier for us if you copy and paste the link in a ...
On the other hand the K word in image 2 looks peculiarly like krĨma - which in Hungarian is Kocsma - which means hotel/pub. On that basis, the first word is...
krĨma means tavern or Inn. krĨmar is an Inn Keeper, krĨmarka, usually a waitress or female bar tender. Z Bohom, Vilo ________________________________ From:...
What Vilo says! In image 3, the scribe ran out of space and finished krcma on the next line. Could be a ka, which would make it krcma+ka. Peter M. ... ...
Bill, The writing UNDER the name is an abbreviation of her religion and status in the first instance. That is, Roman Catholic and Pleb. or commoner and not...
Many thanks to you and others for the comments. To answer - both samples are from the LDS Church Film record number 1791929 for Grancs-Petrovce in Spis. The...
