Hi, Below are two excellent sources of information which have been of enormous use to me in my contiuing search for town aliases in Slovakia. I hope they help...
Hi Joann, The site for the book is: www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=20989 or call 1-800-839-8640. Enjoy, Corinne Joann Pasquariello...
Using the URL indicated comes up with an error message. COund you please provide the trail you used within the LDS site and I'll go that way. Thanks. ... ...
Hello Squinch, 1. Access the FHL catalog at http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp 2. Select Place search. 3. Enter Slovakia in the...
... ******* Hello Colin, Thanks for the website. My father during WWII worked in a coal mine. Coal miners received deferments from the draft. I heard that...
I'd be interested to hear the meaning of Pelyak also Joe. I have a few Pelak lines in my ancestry. Maryann [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Years ago I remember one of the Rusyn newspapers, I believe it was from a group out of Florida, published the meaning of many of the Rusyn names. Each issue...
Ahoj, My grandfather, Josef Varga od Slovensko, was part of a work- gang that traveled around NY, PA, NJ, doing whatever, and one night he worked in a coal...
Regarding the previous names held by Slovak towns, there was some discussion of previous names for locations on the Hungarian GENEALOGIA mailing list, and a...
. . This is not an easy one. Fred Hoffman has that Pelak is from pela, which means floss/silk. Thus a person involved in some manner with silk. There is also...
... Father Sabak's "Carpatho-Russian Echoes." An *excellent* newspaper. Father Sabak deplored the use of the word Rusyn as a term to be used to identify our...
Dear Central Europeans, I'm an editor of Panorama Kultur, one of the most known and regarded, Polish net magazines about life and culture of Central-Eastern...
I have a simple question and some information that I would like to pass on to anyone doing genealogy research on Rusyn in the former Yugoslavia. The question...
Hello Paul, ... That was sometimes done. More often a name was based on the nearest popular saint day. There were no rules issued by the church on how names...
I may have some issues. I don't know where they are right now though. After a twenty-seven year hiatus in my genealogical work (raising a family) I am just...
... If you have a long URL you can go to Tiny URL ( http://tinyurl.com/ ) and paste it in to get a short URL that will take you to the same location. The...
This link outlines one naming tradition among Rusyns: http://www.rusyn.com/crgiven.htm --Tim ... <image.tiff> ... <image.tiff> ... [Non-text portions of this...
No prob. In my family, my mother's side followed it, but my father's didn't. --tim ... <image.tiff> ... <image.tiff> ... [Non-text portions of this message...
Join rusyns <rusyns@yahoogroups.com> Read all posts and you will learn a lot. Go to my www.dpcamps.org and click on Poland pages and there will be archives...
. . . Is the CR-S Lemko Tour lead by Nancy Revak on or off? Is the other CR-S-sponsored tour scheduled to visit the Przemysl State Achives? ______ Lavrentiy...
