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...
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Vladimir Bohinc
vbohinc
May 1, 2004 7:52 pm
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...
9850
William F Brna
wfbrna@...
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...
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Vladimir Bohinc
vbohinc
May 1, 2004 8:19 pm
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
wfbrna@...
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...
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Janet Kozlay
jkozlay
May 1, 2004 8:40 pm
Thank you, William. Very interesting history indeed. My husband's ancestors (Ruttkays and Kossuths) were Lutheran from the Martin/Vrutky area, at least around...
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Gary Costel
gcostel
May 1, 2004 9:16 pm
I was reading with interest the posts regarding PC Translator for Slovak-->English and English-->Slovak. Can anyone recommend somebody, personally, who also...
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Vladimir Bohinc
vbohinc
May 1, 2004 9:32 pm
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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Janet Kozlay
jkozlay
May 1, 2004 9:45 pm
Yes, Vladimir, but we're talking about noble families here. What about them? Why would they have migrated south? Janet ... From: Vladimir Bohinc...
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barbbaba
wowbarbara
May 1, 2004 10:18 pm
what about Talaji in the book?????? Barbara - Uprooting family trees in Sacramento [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Frank
frankly1us
May 2, 2004 12:52 am
... WWW.
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...
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Jeanann Jameson
jjeanann2000
May 2, 2004 5:19 am
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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Jeanann Jameson
jjeanann2000
May 2, 2004 5:28 am
hi i tried to contact you directly but was sent a message saying it could not go through. jeanann ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a...
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Vladimir Bohinc
vbohinc
May 2, 2004 9:03 am
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 ... ...
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Vladimir Bohinc
vbohinc
May 2, 2004 9:03 am
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...
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Vladimir Bohinc
vbohinc
May 2, 2004 9:04 am
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,...
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Vladimir Bohinc
vbohinc
May 2, 2004 9:04 am
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...
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rthomas109464@...
richard_thom...
May 2, 2004 12:08 pm
Hi Vladimir, Is the surname Czokoly in the book? Thank you, Richard Richard W.Thomas 814 Forestdale Road Royal Oak,Michigan 48067 USA ...
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Vladimir Bohinc
vbohinc
May 2, 2004 12:26 pm
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 ,...
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squinch42
May 2, 2004 12:38 pm
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
illy@...
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...
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MEMcDTT@...
memcdttinca
May 2, 2004 1:24 pm
Vladimir, I would be interested is the meanings of the following surnames from the area of Bogliarka and Hervartov: Bily, Horvath/Horvathova, Stefan/Stefanova,...
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Vladimir Bohinc
vbohinc
May 2, 2004 1:34 pm
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...
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Vladimir Bohinc
vbohinc
May 2, 2004 1:42 pm
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...
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jpmalina
May 2, 2004 3:17 pm
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...
9873
Maureen
m_mikovics
May 2, 2004 3:30 pm
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...
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Vladimir Bohinc
vbohinc
May 2, 2004 4:47 pm
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...
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Vladimir Bohinc
vbohinc
May 2, 2004 4:48 pm
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
edmaul@...
May 2, 2004 4:53 pm
Hello Vladimir, Any idea what the surname Filus means in English? Thanks, Ed, Pleasantville, NY...
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Kelly
gurk70
May 2, 2004 5:23 pm
Dear Vladimir, Do you have the surname Gyurkovics anywhere in your book. Kelly Gyurkovits...
