Why don't you give us her name & details. Who knows? Someone may know something. It's worth a shot. Dumb luck kicks in every now and then! Jan Sent from my...
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mgmojher
Feb 1, 2013 1:16 am
Bob, Do you have any idea where in the Spis region that you would concentrate the search? I have used a certified genealogist out of Presov, Michal Razus,...
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Robert Pollak
rjp4053
Feb 2, 2013 7:39 pm
My gg-grandmother's name (found on the birth records of her children and on her death record) was Anna Petrustsak.   The first record of her is the birth...
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htcstech
whiteox_nelson
Feb 2, 2013 8:21 pm
Hello Robert, Not wanting to waste your time or efforts, but I want to clarify how early you have gone back searching for Anna's father in Vlkovce prior to...
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takukuk
Feb 2, 2013 8:42 pm
Bob, I emailed you personally, but perhaps you didn't get it. I show only 9 children and have a marriage date of: 7 NOV 1846. Is the ancestry tree...
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Sue Martin
orowan
Feb 2, 2013 9:41 pm
Have you checked records of Szepes-Ofalu? I believe that's the earlier name of Spisska Nova Ves. Sue ... From: "Robert Pollak" <rjp4053@...> Sent:...
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takukuk
Feb 2, 2013 11:18 pm
Peter, thank you for the spelling variations. Bob: on Anna Petrustsak's death record, her father's home town appears to be Kis-Kun, so just on a hunch I found...
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takukuk
Feb 2, 2013 11:26 pm
The Hungarian/Slovak/German city names plus all the name changes confuses the devil out of me, but I looked up Szepes-Ofalu and found this on WIKI: ...
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Sue Martin
orowan
Feb 3, 2013 1:01 am
No, you got it right. I mixed up Spisska Nova Ves and Spisska Stara Ves. Sorry about that! Sue ... From: takukuk@... Sent: Saturday, February 2, 2013...
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hmsbob
Feb 3, 2013 3:17 pm
what do i have to do, and where do i look for information on the church records that they put on ancestry. step by step if possible. its been so long since...
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patskanovo
Feb 3, 2013 3:39 pm
Bob, If you click "Search" on Ancestry a drop down box will allow you to select the "Card Catalog" Click on your choosen subject and enter the search field...
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patskanovo
Feb 3, 2013 3:50 pm
Group, a fellow contacted me through S-R in reference to my surname list from the village of Patakos. daronk2003 is his member name and although he is not a...
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tkejuice1208
Feb 4, 2013 7:16 pm
Hello all. After a year of some fairly intense research and a lot of confusion, I am reaching out for assistance. The subject of the research is Andras...
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Margo Smith
margolane61
Feb 5, 2013 12:10 am
Go back to your LDS records and look  for Skop and Kuhar surnamed persons from 1810 to 1829.  Look for Hajducsek for 1810-1815 and 1825-1829. ... several...
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htcstech
whiteox_nelson
Feb 5, 2013 12:35 am
Hello Eric, "Does Hajducsek Andras maskep (otherwise) Skop mean that Skop had been dropped in favor of Hajducsek going forward? Might he have been born simply ...
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deeellessbee
Feb 5, 2013 3:15 am
Peter, if it's something that can be shared, I too would be interested in hearing your thoughts on Matthias' "alias madness". While I have the basics of (the...
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CurtB
curtbocha
Feb 5, 2013 3:40 am
Peter & Eric, Careful here translating the Latin. The text says that 'this day was baptized Joannes the son of Mathias Skop, also known as Kuhar or (more...
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htcstech
whiteox_nelson
Feb 5, 2013 6:23 am
Sure, but it was just a bit of free thinking about name origins as he wanted to know which and why the alias occurred. As it was basically off topic, I went...
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lrrykck
Feb 5, 2013 9:08 am
Eric  I entered Hajdusek into the search engine on the LDS site instead of scrolling through indivigual villiages.  ....It brougth up quite a few pages for...
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Tom Kukuk
takukuk
Feb 5, 2013 3:14 pm
Very interesting dialogue. Seems it should be saved as reference material. Thanks for not making it private Sent from my iPhone Tom Kukuk 612.309.7999 ... ...
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tkejuice1208
Feb 5, 2013 4:18 pm
Thanks to all who have provided input. These discussions are always very interesting and I encourage additional input that may be of value. To answer a...
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Ron
amiak27
Feb 5, 2013 8:26 pm
Tom, That is a good idea, and there is no reason you or another ambitious member of S-R can't do it. This is largely a self moderating, independent group, and...
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deeellessbee
Feb 5, 2013 10:14 pm
Thank you Peter! Debbie...
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CurtB
curtbocha
Feb 6, 2013 7:35 pm
Eric, In raising the question of the Alias or "do' name it is important to remember that this was not a uniform practice over time and place, but varied until...
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htcstech
whiteox_nelson
Feb 7, 2013 4:23 am
Thank you Curt! Your explanation summarises the alias events very well. I have an oral history (told in 2012) where some branches of the family were...
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Carl
ktlrchk
Feb 7, 2013 4:12 pm
All this talk about aliases reminded me of a surname variation in my own family. One of my family lines has a surname of Janko but in some of the records it...
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tkejuice1208
Feb 7, 2013 4:33 pm
Thanks Curt, Peter and everyone else for your contributions. The dialogue has certainly helped me and will definitely help others prepare research strategies...
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Alan Antoska
aantoska
Feb 7, 2013 11:56 pm
Carl, Not diminutive but possessive case. The context would clarify eg 'kotlarcik-ovje dom'. Surname used as a pronoun here, but slovak grammar is not my...
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Anabeth Dollins
ajdolli
Feb 8, 2013 12:36 am
Years ago I asked the members of Slovak-World to send my mom (Julia Bolech Placko) emails -- for her 80th and again for her 85th birthdays. She got a huge...
