I remember my mother telling me, years ago, that godfathers had a role in weddings (eastern Slovakia), in addition to sitting at a place of honor at the...
Several times in the past we had talked about Slovak Fujura music at Slovak-World. I just found a new shrink-wrapped cassette of Fujura music. It is listed as...
Helen, Andrea, Julie and All We have lots of Slovak Wedding Traditions at www.iarelative.com/wedding For what ever reason, the subject of Witnesses at Slovak...
The same "elders" keep coming up as witnesses at my gram's Orthodox church in Cleveland as well -- and they were also godparents to a lot of the children as ...
This discussion has reminded me that traditionally, a Slovak child's godfather and godmother have played a larger role in the child's life. For example, their...
I passed the message to Barb. The Library of Congress has a big advantage over me. You use the "Dewey Decimal System". I use the "stick it in a box and put it...
Though not re: midwives, when checking the 1869 Hungarian census records for villages, do NOT overlook those that are in predominantly RC, Jewish or ...
Actually, Greg, we don't use Dewey numbers (even though each book is assigned one during the cataloging process), we use LC classification numbers, but I get...
All these are very interesting observations re: Wedding Witnesses. Most of the records for my paternal grandparents' village (and those adjacent to it) cover...
I've seen many hundreds of Jewish marriage records from the 1800s, and very often the sextons of the synagogue show up over and over again as marriage...
Armata, Joseph R
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Aug 1, 2007 4:13 pm
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For Roman Catholics, only one godparent is required for Baptism, but two are allowed so long as they are one of each sex. More than two are not allowed, nor...
Armata, Joseph R
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Aug 1, 2007 4:15 pm
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August 1st, 2007 Habitat for Humanity Europe and Central Asia is moving its offices from Budapest to Bratislava. As a result of the move, we will be hiring new...
... In the case of my relative (and others I've noticed), their career as marriage witness began early--my relative was witness to 2 weddings when he was 18. ...
I remember wondering about this several years ago looking at records from Rank and Opina. I guess that the results were not conclusive, except there was more...
And I plan to re-visit both the birth/baptismal & marriage records for those of my father's ancestors born & married between 1855-1895 to see how accurate the...
Hi All, The editor of a travel e-magazine called "Perceptive Travel" asked me to come up with a list of 10-15 useful travel and tourism websites for Slovakia,...
Here's a site that I have up in the "Travel and Tourism section of the Library of Congress portal page for Slovakia: Slovak Castles (http://www.castles.sk) ...
Joseph Armata writes: "There's no provision that godparents must be married to each other..." I am a first generation American of Slovak ancestry. My...
Greetings Margarete et al, Thanks for the list of useful sites. I would offer another that I have found very useful since moving to Bratislava 18 months ago....
Thanks for the Armata info. My mother was a 1st generation American of Carpatho-Rus/Ruthenian/Slovak ancestry & she too had godparents who were married to...
julie regarding the two men whose names appear often in the mariage records.... The below info is excerpted from: "Slovakia and the Slovaks, a Concise...
There was a discussion about using cell phones in Europe. This came in my email this morning, and I thought it might be useful information for some. Vickie...
Victoria Hospodar Val...
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Aug 3, 2007 12:10 pm
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Of course, it would have been nice to include the link! http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134851-page,11-c,cellphones/article.html...
Victoria Hospodar Val...
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Aug 3, 2007 12:10 pm
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Interesting link on cell phones, Victoria. For all of the high tech and the three and four band cell phones offered out there, my needs are quite simple and...
I ran into a site I thought was great. So good I made it a Google referral at www.iarelative.com Upper right of the page. You can build a family tree on line. ...
Slovakia fires brought under control Forest fires in Slovakia's protected natural area of Slovensky Raj were brought under control this week after a ten day...
Hello Mr. Plichta......... I will be sending you the Polish articles today. I just saw this email this morning in my inbox so apologize for delay in...
Jan Ammann
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Aug 4, 2007 1:45 am
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None of the godparents in my family were married to each other (my parents were both first-generation Americans), and most of them were brothers/sisters of my...
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