I'm having trouble with one name: 1860 Slovak baptismal record, recorded in Latin, girl's name Vincentia; what's the modern Slovak equivalent? I'm not finding...
Itinerant trading played an important role in the history of the Slovak population's trade and employment. It developed into separate, specific professions,...
Traders were a diverse group, identified by the local population according to either the locale, region, or country from which they came, and also often...
C~aplovic~ also mentions wheelwrights, hoop makers (hoops for barrels), sieve makers, trough makers and coopers, makers of weaving reeds (tools to push down...
Authors from even earlier than the first half of the 19th century noted a wide range of traders in Slovakia who were trading in a variety of goods. One of the...
Please bear with me on the text. I get the impression that this author (each chapter has a different one) wrote in a more academic style, creating even more...
FOLK TRADE The existence and development of traditional folk trade in Slovakia depended on several economic, historical, and social conditions in the country....
Have I been Kicked Off S-W web ? Or is everyone Hibernating,Shopping or watching TV ? Would really enjoy being part of S-W again,even though I dont have...
If you are getting ready to send your Christmas cards and haven't done it before.... We have a Slovak orientated version of the "Night Before Christmas"...
This caught my eye today-these hockey games will feature Slovakia Vs. Norway, Russia Vs. Slovakia, and U.S.A. Vs. Russia. The URL for more information is:...
Hi folks, hopefully you don't mind that I am forwarding the latest update from my cooking site. This past Sunday my mom came over (she is back in the US) and ...
I met someone today who mother's maiden name was Pallay and was from Slovakia, near Bratislava. I asked if this was the name as it was in Slovakia, and she...
To whom it may concern, To you Charlotteans, we lived at 2132 Shadyview Drive from 1970 til 1994 Besides my wife (who passed away this past September) myseilf...
A regional specialty in the central Povaz~ie region was the production of cloth slippers, which developed into a wide range of products, mainly around Pu'chov...
... The above is quite elementary: Bavaria, Thuringia, Upper Palatinate, Upper Franconia [...] Styria, Tirol, Carinthia. ... No "as to" and what not. "Of...
Since the 18th century, domestic production of wooden kitchen and agricultural utensils was of great economic and cultural importance in the region of the...
The same tools were used to spin wool as to spin flax. Until the middle of the 20th century, archaic methods of spinning wool by hand were also used:...
I noticed a couple of Slovak (?) names in the newspapers recently: an article in yesterday's _Wall Street Journal_ on cutting-edge pastry chef Alex Stupak,...
I thought this might be of interest to some of you. The brochure has fabulous pictures. --Julie Michutka From:Nu? What's New? ; The E-zine of Jewish Genealogy...
There were three types of spinning wheels in Slovakia(18), as well as three types of distaffs. In some districts of eastern Slovakia, there was a distaff that...
"Home-Made Products in Slovakia: Main Categories" In addition to artisans, there were numerous home- (folk) producers in Slovakia throughout history. They...
Someone just reminded me tonight that Marion Hossa (of the Stanley Cup winning Blackhawks), is from Slovakia, and in fact played on the Slovakia Olympic Hockey...
A quick question, as I'm looking through some Evangelical parish records, 1870s-1890s, in Klenovec (east of Detva). I'm seeing gmeno instead of meno, manjelka...
The European countries and regions from which journeymen came to Bratislava during their travels were not a constant; they changed based on economics and...
The reason that Austria, Bavaria, and Upper Franconia < http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Locator_map_Regionalverband_Heilbronn-Franken_in_Germany.svg >...
It was great to see some of you at the Slovak Fest at the University of Pittsburgh. Here is some news on Slovakia's Prime Minister. She will be speaking at the...
In the folder called "Pitt Slovak Festival 2010" in the 'Files' section of the Slovak-World web site, I placed a very brief video of Lubos' cooking session. --...
