Dear friends Slovak. I try to help a friend. His grandfather Frantisek Stefan SIPOS was born in BANSKA STIAVNICA (Pjerg) on 10.09.1890, the son of Stefan and...
Thank you dear John. Yes I have seen Horna Micina is from 1737 to 1777 and I thought after it was in the books of Banska. But you confirm I can find Micina...
Michele et al. I dropped into the university library to consult the big dictionaries today and talked to the professor of Czech. Cvokar~ ,I was assured, in...
... It's probably http://www.vkjb.sk/File/anyakonyvvezetokszotara.PDF, and it includes Slovak as well. Ladislav Rosival had mentioned it some time back, and I...
Thank you! I'll try to see if I can further research this village to see exactly what type of industries were around during this time frame. Michele...
Curt, You don't need the big dictionaries if you speak Slovak (and/or Czech). http://slovnik.juls.savba.sk will do you just fine for many of these words- but...
Ben, Well, maybe, but there is nothing quite like the big etymological dictionaries with origins, historical examples, etc. and nothing quite as good has...
Then again, it used to. :-p now it seems they have gutted some of the best material. Sent from my iPhone ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
I am having much difficulty with this surname. "HNATYO " Can anyone help with an allternate spelling or suggestion? George "Gyorgi" Szvida b. 23 Dec 1883 in...
It wasn't all that unusual for a village or group of villages to specialize in some craft, not just in Slovakia but in other neighboring areas too. Sometimes...
The name Hnat is in Gbely. ... From: "patskanovo" <ddhalusker@...> To: SLOVAK-ROOTS@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 9:12:00 AM Subject:...
Someone has posted a genealogy of her on Ancestry.com with photos of her, her husband George Szvida and children, and claim her arrival was in New York aboard...
Hi Group! I added a page to the photos section. It is from the Pennsylvania Slovak Roman and Greek Catholic Union insurance files of Andrew GACA. In section...
Is there any way that you can sharpen up the focus? None of the letters extend below the line. That suggests a village name like Lucska, as an example....
Dennis, Are you finding that spelling with the yo ending in some record? That tree mentioned on ancestry doesn't show any evidence, yet it lists her parents...
Unfortunately that image was printed from a negative film microfilm. The image appears just as my hard copy. I was hoping it would be Vlaca, but even...
Great - Thank you! How should I interpret the information? I am guessing the questions are pertaining to area of birth. Does this statement translate that...
