Hello! I agree there are sympathetic priests out there. We never knew the name of the village my father's parents came from in Slovakia. We did know that my...
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sabinov@xxxxx.xxxxxxx...
sabinov@xxxxx.xxxxxxx...
Oct 14, 1999 10:00 pm
When I"ve had trouble determining the spelling of a surname, I've gotten creative and done two things, which usually have settled the matter for me..... To to...
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Carol DeGraba
caroldegraba@xxxxx.xxxx
Oct 15, 1999 2:41 pm
Dear SLOVAK-ROOTS-owner@onelist, My name is Carol DeGraba and I am interested in researching branches of my mother's side of the family who originated in...
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sabinov@xxxxx.xxxxxxx...
sabinov@xxxxx.xxxxxxx...
Oct 15, 1999 10:48 pm
Hello Carol and Welcome to the list! It's wonderful that you know where your people came from. If you tell us what you have done in terms of searching records...
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James A Honeychuck
jimhoney@xxxxxxxx.xxx...
Oct 16, 1999 12:59 am
Hi Carol. You're lucky. As you may know, the church records from Chmelnica on microfilm go back to about 1790. Good luck in your research. Jim Researching...
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J. Michutka
jmm@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 16, 1999 2:43 am
I'm a little late chiming in on this, but here are the names I'm researching, all in Makov and Vysoka: MIC^UTKA, PAVLIK, FIURI, GREC^NAR, KUBAC^KA,...
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Deb Blabolil
dlb14@xx.xxxx.xxxx
Oct 16, 1999 4:06 am
Hi- Does anyone know how to obtain records from Austria Hungary back from the late 1800's to early 1900's - I have several death certificates of family ...
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MickTully@xxx.xxx
Oct 16, 1999 5:01 am
When is the Slovak festival in Baltimore?...
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Rosamken@xxx.xxx
Oct 16, 1999 5:23 am
In a message dated 10/14/99 1:00:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time, nvcustmurn@... writes: << When I sent my last e-mail to you all I forgot to say that I...
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Ron Matviyak
amiak@xxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 16, 1999 6:53 am
Deb, I just have some of the simpler stuff. Strakonice is in the Czech Republic near the German border. Depending on the European atlas you have, look for...
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sabinov@xxxxx.xxxxxxx...
sabinov@xxxxx.xxxxxxx...
Oct 16, 1999 3:47 pm
Deb, To get records from "Austria-Hungary" you have to figure out where the town/village is now.... records for most of the Slovak Republic are filmed and can...
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sabinov@xxxxx.xxxxxxx...
sabinov@xxxxx.xxxxxxx...
Oct 16, 1999 3:53 pm
Hi Julie! If you know your family came via NY (Ellis Island) between 1903 and 1911 , you can find their record on a ship manifest fairly easily using the ...
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Karen Norton
knorton2@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 17, 1999 2:04 am
Dear Deb, I have used the records at the National Archives near me in Pittsfield, MA quite a bit. For most states, there is no index for the 1910 Census -...
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JArcher360@...
Oct 17, 1999 4:05 pm
A little late in reading mail--spellings seem to vary all over the place; most of them are phonetic, but it seems to depend of the language of the person doing...
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Andy Verostko
averostko@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 17, 1999 4:24 pm
When you get back to the beginning of church recrds for the village, there is some possibility that the larger city nearby may have some additional data....
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J. Michutka
jmm@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 19, 1999 1:01 am
... I've found most of them on rare visits to the DC Nat'l Archives; but I'm thinking I need to go back to the ship's records and look through all several...
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Andrea Vangor
drav@xx.xxxx
Oct 20, 1999 7:05 am
Dear list, I have not posted lately because I have received so much new information about ancestors that I have not been able to keep up with it. However, I ...
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Rosamken@xxx.xxx
Oct 22, 1999 3:15 am
In a message dated 10/20/99 12:05:19 AM Pacific Daylight Time, drav@... writes: << about ancestors that I have not been able to keep up with it. However, I...
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Andrea Vangor
drav@xx.xxxx
Oct 22, 1999 8:03 am
The 1880's is probably when the first wave of Slovaks hit the shores. Then they disappear for a while! That's what I am trying to grasp -- how to track them...
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RMH
rmharing@xxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 22, 1999 12:48 pm
Hello, All - It seems that after a few brave souls had arrived and found work and established themselves, they wrote back home and others followed to the same...
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Alice
alice7@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
Oct 22, 1999 3:10 pm
Does anyone know where I can find a ships list URL? Also, about the emigration of Slovaks and Rusyns to PA. Many of them just came over for a year to make...
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J. Michutka
jmm@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 22, 1999 8:17 pm
I have a different migration pattern in my family (if you can call it migration!). My grandparents arrived in NYC, met there and married there in Feb 1913....
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Andrea Vangor
drav@xx.xxxx
Oct 22, 1999 8:30 pm
Dear Regina and List, I think this is exactly right. The fun part is trying to reconstruct the process. Who was the first brave soul or two from the village...
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MJESKO@xxxxx.xxxxxxxx...
MJESKO@xxxxx.xxxxxxxx...
Oct 22, 1999 9:18 pm
Since we are finding miners in our family trees, everyone does know that most of the mining techniques for deep coal mining were developed in Slovakia. That...
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RMH
rmharing@xxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 22, 1999 9:21 pm
Tony Sutherland's article mentioned in my previous post also has this to say: "Haverstraw was one of the earliest Slovak settlements in NY, beginning at least...
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BobHORGOS@xxx.xxx
Oct 22, 1999 9:40 pm
You can find a list of Immigrant Passenger ships (including the listing of all the passengers) at: http://istg.rootsweb.com/ The istg stands for: Immigrant...
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Maureen Pulignano
deefalt@xxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 22, 1999 10:38 pm
Please answer a dumb question: Where is Haverstraw? Thanks, Maureen...
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sabinov@xxxxx.xxxxxxx...
sabinov@xxxxx.xxxxxxx...
Oct 22, 1999 10:50 pm
It depends on why you want a url for ships lists..... there are many on line in different places, but searching the actual films is always better if you can do...
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sabinov@xxxxx.xxxxxxx...
sabinov@xxxxx.xxxxxxx...
Oct 22, 1999 10:56 pm
In my opinion (and I'm certainly not an expert) any migration at this time period boiled down to where they could get a job and make $$$. Word of mouth...
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leroy_s@xxx.xxx
Oct 22, 1999 11:50 pm
Hello My ggrandparents came to New York in 1872. They came with two other families on the ship Silesia. The passenger ship list says that they came from a town...
