When it comes to non-Slovak sounding names it is worth remembering that Austria-Hungary was a multi-national state and people did move around within the...
Hi to all you experts, I finally have found an alternative spelling to my grandfather's surname, SANTI. I found the church where an uncle married in...
If you have enough dates and names, the Czech Embassy can refer you to a researcher in Czechoslovakia, where the records seem to be better than they are here....
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...
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...
Some time back, spent a year at a regional National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) center researching surnames from the 1900/1910/1920 U.S. Census...
Monica, I'm sorry I thought I had emailed you privately on sat. but it didn't work. I very excited that you met someone that is related to Charles Risko of...
Hi all.... I've added a new Hint to my Helpful Hints for Successful Searching site located at http://community.webtv.net/mpetzolt2/helpfulhints ... this new...
Podolinec is a predominantly Roman Catholic town in SPis county. Some of my distant relatives (named Halyama) lived there who were Greek Catholic. None of...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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?...
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 ...
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...
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...
I'm using the FHL form for requesting information and have some questions which hopefully someone can help me with. Under scope of the search it asks if I want...
Stacey, I have access to the FHC films 1792041 through 1792043 at my local FHC. I thought the Fecik name looked familiar, but I can't be sure. These records...
Hi, my name is Stacy. I am doing genealogical research on the surname Fetchick (Americanized). I believe the closest Eastern European version of the name is...
My contact with slovaks is limited to my father's immediate family and their descendents. In this group was a Jori or Jorry which was a diminutive for Joseph,...
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John, Your answer sounds like what I used to get from my Dad whenever I asked where his family was from. His answer always was: "The part of Europe that ...
Robert: I have a Kolvek in my family tree. His name was Joseph and married to my great aunt Mary CUPKA [KUPKA]. However I don't have any vital information on...
