Hi: Is there a web site for marriage records for Chicago or Detroit dating back to 1910 and 1880. How would I go about finding records for those dates if I am...
Greetings to all that have been helping me, I am not sure if these are the same Kantors. If you notice on my post#9056 their fathers name was John Kantor. So...
Hi All: Still trying to nail down the Mitro origination -- and am finding current telephone listings primarily in these locations: Humenne Presov Michalovce ...
For information on Dobschau/Dobsina and Carpathian Germans in general check the Carpathian German Homepage on http://www.geocities.com/ycrtmr and the many...
Thank you for the info, the uncle Janos Kantor,where did you find him? And where could I find this village at on a map? Thank you so much for you insight....
Place of birth is Also Berki (Berky), and last place of residence is Koermend. These might be Alsoberecki and Kormenditanya in far NE Hungary, close to Slovak...
hello again, names Josef Kantor Istvan Kantor arrival November 16 1922 port of departure Bremman ship Pres. Arthur could these two have been brothers?...
Names are so mangled on the manifests that it is better to let other pairs of eyes study the handwriting directly. It very well may be a phonetic spelling, I...
Maybe you can help me, is Kerek a Slovak name? both my Mother and Father came from Czechoslovakia in the early 1900,my father fought in the first world war on...
Greetings, I was looking at a ship manifest for a possible relative can anyone tell me what city this is. On the Ellis Island site it reads, Koer...Hungary....
HI GROUP! I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON MY GREAT GRANDFATHER TOMAS M. JISKRA AND KEEP GETTING NO PLACE. HE WAS FROM LIPOV NOT SURE IF HE WAS BORN THERE BUT LIVED...
Jennifer, Remembering that women put "ova" on their last name, I looked up Jiskrova and found your Catherine who came to her husband, Tomas Jiskra to Toledo...
Dear List, after 8 long months of waiting for a decision on my application for the Expatriate card, I have on Friday by certified mail received a package in...
Last year I actually found my family in Slovakia. I located the village where my grandfather was born from old documents in the family. I went to a site...
Hi everyone, I'm new to this list and wanted to introduce myself. I'm trying to find any info on the Knobloch family. Rose Knobloch to be specfic. She was...
Hello, Does anyone have knowledge of sending emails to the Ukraine? I have made contact with a cousin via the postal service and sent him my email address. He...
Hello guys, I don't know if this has been shared on this board or not (if it is forgive me) but a lot of people with Eastern European names were misspelled....
My maiden name - also a name I am searching is Nimcheck. Do you think it is a deritive of Nemec? Julie Johnston [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Dear Janet, I currently have a geneologist "Michael Sura" in Slovakia doing research for me and he is amazing and price is excellent. I'm not sure if he ...
A week or so ago, someone on the list was looking for information Kacmar/Kaczmar. A listmember from the Rusyn's list sent this address over to help. Hope it...
Greetings, all! I've recently joined this list, and am researching my father in law's KORNIDES family who settled in Westmoreland County PA, chiefly in Unity ...
Dear Frank, I found those four under the surname Kormancsik. The surname Korman, however, is also a legitimate slovak surname, of which I have found many on...
Hello Keith, Your family (Turjanica and Stankovics) is clearly Carpatho-Rusyn, or simply, Rusyn, not Slovak. ... These are common, even typical, Rusyn...
Thank you, Frank. This seems a very comprehensive explanation! It would be interesting to know, from a linguistic angle, if the word nemec originated in the...
Hi folks, my name is Keith Slicner and in conjunction with several family members I'm researching my family ancestry in Slovokia. At this point I don't have...
Hi All, I could not help noticing some bad spelling or translation nemec ... german (was correct) nemcina ... german language (omit 'e' after m) both in Czech...
