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Just downloaded [S-R] Digest number 1466 to my printer and ran out
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20 messages and 59 pages long !.
Is there an invisible chain letter...
Frank, I find your comment about Lutheran Slovaks quite interesting. I know that there was a considerable pocket of Lutherans in the northern part of Old...
Dear Jean, Since we are by the names, my name is Vladimir , not Valdamir. It is not the same, how you spell a name. I checked, but none of the names you gave...
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William F Brna
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May 1, 2004 8:12 pm
Janet, About the mddle of the 18th century, two brothers who owned land in what is now Serbia went to Orava in northwestern Slovakia and asked for people to...
Dear Frank, Now I have to say this word again; I was there for two days and met many people. They all speak slovak among themselves. They feel very much...
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William F Brna
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May 1, 2004 8:39 pm
Janet, I forgot to mention that there is a book available in the family History Center titled, "Petrovec". I had ordered the microfilm but when I found that...
Thank you, William. Very interesting history indeed. My husband's ancestors (Ruttkays and Kossuths) were Lutheran from the Martin/Vrutky area, at least around...
I was reading with interest the posts regarding PC Translator for Slovak-->English and English-->Slovak. Can anyone recommend somebody, personally, who also...
Dear Janet, After the Turks were defeated, life for peasants in Slovakia (territory) was very very hard, so many left South, to settle on flat land, which was...
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How much is true and how much is Serbian propaganda. Didn't write it just read it.
Expected perhaps a Potemkin village like elaborate fake village...
hi do you have the name Rak in the book? thanks jeanann ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs ...
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Dear Barbara, Tis surname is not in the book, but seems to be of hungarian origin. The hungarian word talaj means ground, like fertile ground. Vladimir ... ...
Dear Jeanana, Your question was not addressed to anyone particularly and was not attached to any parsticular mail, except for the subject line. I suppose, it...
Dear Frank, You have some good dictionnaries. But you see, a machine can not always find the right word for certain situation. Re pros and cons; in general,...
Dear Janet, There were many levels of Nobility. Some Nobles ended up as beggars too. I have seen that in the records by myself. You can safely assume, that...
Dear Richard, The closest I have is Csorfoly, which is not the same or related. Czokoly appears to be purely hungarian and related to the hungarian word csok ,...
Vladimir, I would be interested is the meanings of two surnames from the village of Orlov. My grandmother's was TIMOCSKO and my grandfather's - in both...
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Milan Huba
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May 2, 2004 1:01 pm
Nope, the calves were taken up into the mountains in the fall. And yes, the snow starts falling in mountain in the fall. When I was a young man shortly after...
Vladimir, I would be interested is the meanings of the following surnames from the area of Bogliarka and Hervartov: Bily, Horvath/Horvathova, Stefan/Stefanova,...
Dear squinch42, none of the surnames are in the book. I would like to point out, that although the book has about 4500 surnames, this can not cover all of...
Dear Mike, Bily = White Horvath = Croat Stefan = Stephen Sivic not in the book, but may well be connected to the slovak word sivy, which means gray, like gray...
Vladimir, Good Morning. Would you please tell me if the names Malina,Apoliny& Cepcuny are in the book.Thank you for your time. John Malina ... From: Vladimir...
Hello Vladimir, My families are CHVOSTAL and KRIVJANSKY from Zemplen. I don't know if your book covers that area - but, if it does, would you mind checking for...
Dear Noreen, Chvostal is not there, but surely is derived from Chvost, which is a tail of an animal, for example. Krivjansky is also not there, but has a root...
Dear John, Yes, Malina = raspberry Cepcany; the book only says, that this name has been taken from hungarians. Csepp in hungarian is a droplet. Vladimir ... ...
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Ed Maul
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May 2, 2004 4:53 pm
Hello Vladimir, Any idea what the surname Filus means in English? Thanks, Ed, Pleasantville, NY...
