Good morning, Martin -- I am speechless with delight to see your message in which you mention that you replied to my question months ago about the fractions....
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Margo Smith
margolane61
Jul 29, 2007 2:27 pm
Yes, Carl, absolutely. However, on the records I have, the robota requirement was not expressed in a whole number of days, but in a fraction. That did not...
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Martin Votruba
votrubam
Jul 29, 2007 7:09 pm
... The same applied to robota, Margo. The fractions you quoted did not stand for days. They represented the sizes of those "fields" that were to become the...
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Martin Votruba
votrubam
Jul 29, 2007 10:33 pm
... The Kingdom wasn't regulated and run as efficiently as today's Europe and the US. There were wars, revolutions, attempts, failures, renewed efforts, etc....
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Claudia Medvik
claudia_medvik
Jul 30, 2007 2:55 am
I have met some people while walking my dog in the evenings, who have an East European accent to their English, and I wondered how to tactfully ask them from...
18519
Matchett
juliamatchett
Jul 30, 2007 4:59 am
I've met a lot of tourists here in Florida and simply ask, with a smile, "what is your nationality?" They've seemed happy to be asked and to strike up a...
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Paul Guzowski
bike_for_lif...
Jul 30, 2007 10:04 am
Claudia et al,,,, One approach I've used quite successfully both in the US and here in Eastern/Central Europe is the following: "It sounds like English is not...
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Plichta
frank_r_plichta
Jul 30, 2007 12:35 pm
Jan, Yes, I am interested. If you could send the material I would appreciate it. The description sounds interesting and something that I need to research ...
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Margo Smith
margolane61
Jul 30, 2007 1:18 pm
Thank you very much, Martin. Now I am looking at my data in a new light. This urbarial register also included a document written in an archaic Slovak (when...
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Helen Fedor
helentrib
Jul 30, 2007 1:22 pm
I don't know why it costs so much. It does have a lot of pictures, so that may be part of it. You could check, but I doubt that a local or even regional...
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Margo Smith
margolane61
Jul 30, 2007 1:45 pm
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Martin Votruba <votrubam@...> wrote: > the 1767-1772 Urbarial Register [...] ... Roughly -- Does the village...
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Helen Fedor
helentrib
Jul 30, 2007 1:51 pm
Hi Greg, The Library of Congress to the rescue! I have the book sitting right in front of me. If you'll give my email address <hfed@...> to Barb, I can...
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Helen Fedor
helentrib
Jul 30, 2007 1:56 pm
When I came up with the idea of reading this book and discussing it online, I told Lou (with whom I'd talked extensively, along with his wife, at the Slavic...
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Martin Votruba
votrubam
Jul 30, 2007 2:25 pm
... The questions were normally answered by the village council for the whole village, not by each individual farmer. ... I answered this, too, Margo, in a...
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Margo Smith
margolane61
Jul 30, 2007 2:37 pm
Yes, thank you. I did find it. That this group was normally the village council is very interesting. So I now have a couple of village council members in my...
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Martin Votruba
votrubam
Jul 30, 2007 4:24 pm
... This doesn't contradict what you say, Paul. I'd just like to add that people's reactions may be very varied, and that how friendly they are in their...
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Marianne Petruska
marianne50614
Jul 30, 2007 5:19 pm
To add a comment to what Martin has said: There are also *U.S.-born adults* for whom English is their *2nd* language & many have accents: At home they...
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Linda Hartlaub
matka777
Jul 30, 2007 5:55 pm
My opening line is "You have such a beautiful accent. May I ask where you're from?" The most frequent response is a beautiful smile, not just their lips, but...
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Martin Votruba
votrubam
Jul 30, 2007 11:53 pm
... What the person who asks doesn't realize is that what's a rare event for him/her, may be a stupefyingly repetitive, boring and boorish situation for the...
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J. Edward Polko
johnepolko
Jul 31, 2007 2:53 am
Truer words were never spoken Martin. regards, John ... From: Slovak-World@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Slovak-World@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Martin Votruba ...
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Claudia Medvik
claudia_medvik
Jul 31, 2007 3:56 am
I do not wish to offend anyone, that, is why I ask the question how to inquire politely. Not like a tourist or nosy busy body. I want to ask in hope they are ...
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Andrea Vangor
sumietpotok
Jul 31, 2007 5:34 am
God bless you, Claudia. I'm sure you have never approached anyone in a way they found bothersome. I'd want to ask just as you do, in case they turned out to...
18536
amiak27
Jul 31, 2007 7:49 am
Yes, a good answer it is. Years ago I noticed that when people would start with "may I ask you a personal question?" they would often come up with outrageous...
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konekta@...
vbohinc
Jul 31, 2007 8:28 am
How to get acquainted with a stranger? Never ask a personal question first. This is brutal. Slovaks have a very interesting answer to someone, who was offended...
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J Michutka
jmichutka
Jul 31, 2007 11:43 pm
I'm going through Slovak village marriage records in the late 1800s, and finding that some names occur many times in the marriage witness column. For example,...
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Lil Junas
povetzlil
Jul 31, 2007 11:51 pm
Good observation, Julie. My dad was one of those persons who seemed to be in most weddings in his little town of Lansford, Pa. He was a barber in the...
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Andrea Vangor
sumietpotok
Aug 1, 2007 12:54 am
That's an outstanding question. I have a popular relative who turns up a few times around 1800. Thinking it over, didn't we learn at one time that the wedding...
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J Michutka
jmichutka
Aug 1, 2007 1:32 am
... It's not the case in the records I'm seeing; the witnesses are sometimes (but not always) contemporary in age with the bride and groom. I couldn't give...
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bhewlett@...
hewlettjoyce
Aug 1, 2007 1:37 am
I ran into the same situation with a 2nd great grandfather who was witness to 21 marriages in 9 years. I believe I copied the following from the book Proper...
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J Michutka
jmichutka
Aug 1, 2007 1:44 am
The other thing I track is midwife / obstetrix. In the Catholic records, I find them occasionally when a baby was baptized by the midwife (baby probably...
