... Not you, Vilo. There's no way to discuss things with Wki. Anyone, no matter how ill informed, ignorant, biased, hateful... can write anything there, and...
... Taking the trouble to check the facts (rather than any imaginary rules) first is advisable, Larry. Tiso has been discussed numerous times on SK-W,...
Pork and sauerkraut is the traditional meal on New Year's Day. Wouldn't be New Year's Day without it. For more than most people need to know about sauerkraut ...
We keep my family of origin - Slovak tradition going at our house with a meatless Christmas Eve, but a ham was always put in the oven to be ready for a snack...
Lubos, I'm glad you asked, because I've been curious about this myself. My mother was also from central Slovakia--Parnica--near the Polish border, but she...
I think some of you may get a kick out of this. At least I found it quite interesting. I just came back from visiting my grandma, who now lives in a house from...
The Slovak Police practiced detecting explosives at Poprad Airport on Saturday, 1/2. Their idea of how to best do it was to stick explosives in passengers'...
All. FHL pilot Slovakia digital files back up. http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#r=1;p=allCollections [Non-text portions of this message...
I wish all of you the best in the coming year. I can't imagine how the new one will be better than the previous one for me, but I will strive to make it...
Are you getting your home blessed in the next couple weeks? http://www.iarelative.com/xmas/40874.htm If you have a special custom involving home blessings, let...
I ran across this online book in Czech, documenting the calamities that befell Moravian Slovakia in the 17th century. I just glanced over some of it, but it's...
A few details, Vilo, to round off your account. ... Slovaks were members of Czechoslovakia's ruling parliament and governments. Among the most prominent ones...
I see I put my Cold Cure comment under Sauerkraut. Sorry about that. OK, I guess there are two kind of dumplings as I found out going to a Slovak
picnic over...
Hi folks, I remember us having a discussion few weeks back about lokshe. I am emailing your from my grandma's house in Dolna Lehota, near Banska Bystrica,where...
... Not a contradiction in a general sense, just a technicality -- no one except the people who documented their German ethnic origin and received German...
... Just a tiny shift: it is standard Slovak, it's merely colloquial, informal -- like the difference between ahoj and dobry den, both are standard Slovak, but...
I think I had that milk with honey and butter, forgot totally about it. Maybe that is why when I cannot sleep I drink warm milk with honey. Well, I
was...
We had a similar custom. A dark haired male had to be the first one into the house on New Year's Day. To make sure it would happen my mom would have my dad...
My mom did the same thing; thank goodness my dad had dark hair. I married a blonde so we waited for either, my dad or my brother to visit ! LOL In a message...
Some time back I found and downloaded a book on Google Books „Wanderungen in Ungarn und unter seinen Bewohnern, Eine Beleuchtung von Ungarns moderner...
... Sorry about the delay, Laci seemed ready to address the origin. It might prove difficult to make the argument that Hungarian was the lending rather than...
Has anyone worked with Family Tree Maker 2010 Essentials or Family Tree Maker 2010 Deluxe genealogy software? I've kept track of the info I've found on paper,...
On New Year's Day we have a pork roast, also my mom's tradition. Her reasoning was that a pig goes forward which the new year does and it's the way we want to...
