Hi - have a friend there who publishes a newsletter for Colorado Slovaks - e mail me directly and i can put you in touch. helene helenezx@... ...
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helene cincebeaux
helenezx
Dec 1, 2009 11:31 am
hi - i have 2 listings for this surname in the Slovak Pride data base - if you would like more info contact me directly. helene helenezx@... ...
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helene cincebeaux
helenezx
Dec 1, 2009 11:44 am
Hi Allison, Pretty sure we will be goimg in 2011. Thanks for the new surnames - have you contacted the Slovak Pride listers i sent you - i am sure you are...
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Greg
gregory_kopchak
Dec 1, 2009 2:45 pm
Helene: Most people don't associate Colorado with Slovaks. My Baba was born in Pueblo. The world's greatest Kolace is made in Colorado. Send me the Colorado...
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Greg
gregory_kopchak
Dec 1, 2009 3:00 pm
A local TV station just ran a story that one of the hottest gift items this year is a "Smoker". One of the first signs that Christmas was coming when I grew up...
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helene cincebeaux
helenezx
Dec 2, 2009 12:02 am
Hi Greg - I would love to try that Kolace! i am sending you the contact for the Colorado Slovak newsletter in another e mail - I have a dozen members from...
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phoenixbenikowsky
phoenixbenik...
Dec 2, 2009 2:00 am
Can anyone tell me what Liptovsky means and why do a number of towns have this as part of their name? Also, I have been assuming that to say one is from Lipto...
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Lubos Brieda
lbrieda
Dec 2, 2009 2:04 am
Liptovský means "of Liptov". Liptov is a region in northern Slovakia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liptov. Mikuláš is Slovak for Nicolas. So, Liptovský...
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William C. Wormuth
senzus...
Dec 2, 2009 3:58 am
I think this will explain for you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liptov ________________________________ From: phoenixbenikowsky <phoenixbenikowsky@...> ...
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William C. Wormuth
senzus...
Dec 2, 2009 3:59 am
Lubos~ Great minds often run in the same Channel! Vili ________________________________ From: Lubos Brieda <lbrieda@...> To: Slovak-World@yahoogroups.com...
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Edward T. Surkosky
esurkosky
Dec 2, 2009 5:46 am
My nephews went deer hunting on Monday, here in Western Pennsylvania. The oldest got a 5 point buck, the other got a 22 (yep, twenty-two) point typical buck....
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d22fitts
Dec 2, 2009 6:53 pm
I have been corresponding with Slovakia and find that on some of the last name has the letters "ova" after some of the names. The place is Osturna and this...
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Lubos Brieda
lbrieda
Dec 2, 2009 7:00 pm
all female last names take the female form of the man's name. For instance, my last name is Brieda, but my sister is Briedová. This -ová ending is not...
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Helen Fedor
helentrib
Dec 2, 2009 7:01 pm
"-ova" is the feminine ending for some Slovak last names (it depends on the name, but that's a whole other discussion). If someone's name ends in -ova, that...
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Julie Michutka
jmichutka
Dec 2, 2009 7:25 pm
Hi Dorothy, I will just add to what the others have explained, that on my first trip to Slovakia, when I introduced myself to a distant relative as "Michutka,"...
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Caye Caswick
ccaswick
Dec 2, 2009 7:55 pm
 Julie, I can add another funny to your comment -- my grandmother's surname was Mitro.  When I went to Slovakia in 2006, the cousins kept saying she was...
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Dorothy L Fitts
d22fitts
Dec 2, 2009 10:01 pm
Thank you all. I appreciate your response as it seems so logical now. Dorothy From: Slovak-World@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Slovak-World@yahoogroups.com] On...
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mccoy4984
Dec 2, 2009 10:31 pm
Filmed at the end of the traditional dance performance in Tbilisi, Georgia!!! See at the address below: http://travldawrld.blogspot.com/ Russ...
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Phoenix Benikowsky
phoenixbenik...
Dec 2, 2009 11:43 pm
Thanks for your help folks. Much appreciated, Phoenix ________________________________ From: William C. Wormuth <senzus@...> To:...
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votrubam
Dec 3, 2009 2:24 am
... As Julie implied, it sounds to most Slovaks today as if an American nun hated being called that and insisted on being called a monk. But there is a tiny...
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George Sirko
yurka3391
Dec 3, 2009 3:44 am
The OVA on the end of a Surname means Female. Correct me if I'm wrong. George ... From: Dorothy L Fitts <dfitts22@...> Subject: RE: [Slovak-World] A...
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Nick Holcz
nikolaih2001
Dec 3, 2009 4:08 am
To the best of my knowledge it had nothing to do with communism. My mother told me about being Holczova before 1948. Laskavy Prosim Nick...
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mcmburke@...
mcmburke
Dec 3, 2009 4:14 am
I grew up in the city and never experienced any locally, home-smoked meats. One of my cousins who lives now much more "in the country" (in the exurbs of...
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Ben Sorensen
benamilka
Dec 3, 2009 2:50 pm
For what its worth: When Misa and I married, we had to jump through some hoops (nothing really bad though- it was harder to get a car registered here!) to...
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Helen Fedor
helentrib
Dec 3, 2009 3:17 pm
I remember my mom (Mrs. Fedor) being referred to, and called, very casually, by a friend of the family "Fedoran~a". I also heard my mom refer to his wife...
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William F Brna
wbrna
Dec 3, 2009 3:32 pm
Helen, When I was growing up, there was a family named "Fetsko" in the town where I grew up. The mother was my mother's friend and was known as "Fetskan~a". ...
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Helen Fedor
helentrib
Dec 3, 2009 4:06 pm
I wonder if this was an ending used in the eastern dialects. From what part of Slovakia did your family come? H All opinions my own ... Helen, When I was...
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William F Brna
wbrna
Dec 3, 2009 4:55 pm
Helen, My mother was born in Krasna Horka and my father was born in Liesek. Both my ancestral families came from Orava. I have traced my father's family back...
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votrubam
Dec 3, 2009 6:16 pm
... -an~a is a pan-Slovak feminine derivation. It is rather infrequent, and the derivations often have augmenting, expressive, negative connotations: dlhana...
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Caye Caswick
ccaswick
Dec 3, 2009 6:42 pm
 Interesting, thanks Martin. When the cousins came 2 summers ago -- I noticed on one of their stacks of CD's (recorded favorite television shows from the...
