Thank you - I'll look iinto them. Mine came here in 1903, so finding connections still in Europe is a long shot, as I doubt anyone would remember them. Three...
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monica wentworth
aberjona61
Mar 22, 2002 1:15 pm
Hi Shelley-You may not believe this but I met someone who is relate to a CHARLES RISKO from Vintondale! I tried e-mailing you directly but it came back...
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Wvlyle@...
Mar 22, 2002 5:35 pm
Trying to find where the Lehosit family lived in Slovakia. Really confused here. I have been told and found the following: They were from the Orava region. ...
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EMSCRS@...
chaas622
Mar 22, 2002 6:49 pm
Have you been to all the Czech websites? One problem, is that none of these areas are now where they were then. That is, they didn't move, but are under ...
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EMSCRS@...
chaas622
Mar 22, 2002 6:52 pm
Forgot to say - just because he was living there before he came here does not mean that that was where he was from originally....
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Armata, Joseph R. (JA...
fourfalls
Mar 22, 2002 7:43 pm
For Lipnica, try Lipnica Wielka in Poland, just over the Slovak border - a small part of Orava county (about half of the disputed villages at the time) was...
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Wvlyle@...
Mar 22, 2002 8:28 pm
Thanks for the tips Elizabeth; Lyle Corder [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Wvlyle@...
Mar 22, 2002 8:39 pm
Dear Joe: Thank you very much. I have spotted Lipnica Wielka on my map and it is near the right area. Do you know when the land was brokeup? Went to Poland?...
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Armata, Joseph R. (JA...
fourfalls
Mar 22, 2002 9:13 pm
The northern sliver of Orava/Orawa was ceded to Poland by a council of ambassadors in July (?) of 1920, following the breakup of the old Austro-Hungarian...
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Wvlyle@...
Mar 22, 2002 11:03 pm
Dear Joe: Thanks for the great history lesson. I really need to find a good book on the region. Now, if you or someone else could give me a little more...
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Andrea Vangor
cinuka
Mar 23, 2002 12:51 am
Theoretically, one was a Hungarian citizen but of a particular ethnicity. Originally the Hungarian Kingdom was designed to include several nationalities....
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Andrea Vangor
cinuka
Mar 23, 2002 12:57 am
P.S. -- we were part of Hungary until after WWI. ... From: "Andrea Vangor" <drav@...> To: <SLOVAK-ROOTS@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 4:50...
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EMSCRS@...
chaas622
Mar 23, 2002 3:10 am
Slovakia has only been called a place since 1849. There is a book called "A History of Slovakia" by Stanislav J. Kirschbaum which is quite informative. Slovak...
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shelley20640
Mar 24, 2002 11:31 pm
Hello, I think I sent both of you a private email Sat. morning. If you didn't receive it let me know. Most of the yahoo groups that I'm on, if I click on the...
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EMSCRS@...
chaas622
Mar 25, 2002 1:01 am
If you sent me an email, Idid not get it. What was it about?...
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monica wentworth
aberjona61
Mar 25, 2002 2:48 pm
I don't think I received it-I have a document that lists a charles Risko-I scanned it and want to send it to you-I will try the addresses you listed here. ... ...
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shelley20640
Mar 26, 2002 1:49 am
So sorry Richard, I didn't think that worked. You had asked me in a previous post where Charles Risko was buried. He is buried at the Nanjemoy Baptist Church...
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David J Hanich
dhanich@...
Mar 26, 2002 3:24 am
Hello! I've just received the naturalization papers for my grandfather, Frank Hanich. They say that his place of birth was Vulsinki, Czechoslovakia. This was...
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Richard D. Custer
rcuster@...
Mar 26, 2002 6:05 am
Vul'shynky [now Vil'shynky] is in Ukraine, Zakarpatska Oblast. However, it is in that part of Ukraine which *used to be* in Czechoslovakia, namely...
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Mark Slemeck
mslemeck@...
Mar 26, 2002 3:40 pm
me too - Im stuck and I dont know how to get off ... From: Nancy [mailto:nhelen@...] Sent: 14 January 2002 16:55 To: SLOVAK-ROOTS@yahoogroups.com ...
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Ed Maul
littlebeau10570
Mar 26, 2002 4:00 pm
SLOVAK-ROOTS-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ... From: "Mark Slemeck" <mslemeck@...> To: <SLOVAK-ROOTS@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 26,...
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RoseAnne and Eric
dirty762001
Mar 27, 2002 12:58 am
Me TOOOOOOOOOO!!! EricandRose@... Thank you ... From: "Ed Maul" <ed_maul@...> To: <SLOVAK-ROOTS@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002...
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Andrea Vangor
cinuka
Mar 27, 2002 6:42 am
An Awful Warning: I have been strolling through the 1910 CT census on Ancestry.com looking for assorted relatives, and was astonished to find my Slovak...
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Dee Hass
deehass2002
Mar 27, 2002 3:02 pm
I do not find a 1910 CT Census on ancestry.com. I was going to take a look to see how my relatives were listed. Are you certain it was the above web site or...
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Caye Caswick
ccaswick
Mar 27, 2002 3:14 pm
I believe it is something you must be a member to obtain -- although, I've heard some Census are purchasable on CD. Also the 1930 Census should be available...
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PHILBAER@...
Mar 27, 2002 6:12 pm
There are many many errors in the census records - I believe they resulted from uninformed census takers. I have accessed several Ohio census records and found...
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frankly1us
Mar 27, 2002 8:02 pm
... ress in Ljubljana, Slovenia a month later.
A Slovenian had attempted to enter Slovakia on a Slovenian passport
and was denied entry.
Border guard had...
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Andrea Vangor
cinuka
Mar 27, 2002 8:14 pm
I don't mind "Slovakland" -- it is at least accurate. Slovenia, now, is a whole different country. I'd rather like to imagine my relatives claiming that they...
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Andrea Vangor
cinuka
Mar 27, 2002 8:16 pm
Thanks for the detailed explanation. I get the idea that the Slovenes and Slovaks were a contiguous population until the Magyars pushed into the Carpathian...
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nbenyo@...
Mar 27, 2002 8:59 pm
I find the passenger ship lists amazingly accurate. I've identified hundreds of relatives or "village people", and all but one was correctly identified as...
