Slovakia Genealogy Research Strategies

Archives of Various Nations

Excellent descriptions on writing to the Archives have been written by others and posted on the web.  This page will refer you to the best of those sites.

SLOVAKIA

• Slovak Archives main site: (not much help to genealogists)

Utilizing Archives for Genealogical Research - Overview

Overview by Czechoslovak Genealogy Society

Slovak Embassy introductory material on how to write to the Archives, what forms to use - I don’t think these forms have changed.

Other material worth reading:

• Slovak and Czech Archives by Duncan B. Gardiner
• ARCHIVES AND HOW TO OBTAIN INFORMATION FROM THE CZECH AND SLOVAK REPUBLICS

You can write in English, the Archive will reply in Slovak.

For advice from people who have a great deal of experience using the archives, join the DELPHI group (see Mailing Lists and Discussion Groups  for registration information)

HUNGARY

• National Archives of Hungary

Don't miss the Guide to Family History, published by the National Archives of Hungary - A worthy treatise on the love, labor at tactics involved in tracing family history of those who lived in the former Hungarian Empire. Certainly applies to Slovakia History.

UKRAINE

• Archives of the Ukraine

• State Committee on Archives of Ukraine

• Archives of Ukraine, Harvard University

• HalGal: Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine, city of Lviv

• PolishRoots - Archives in Ukraine
  ADDRESSES FOR ARCHIVES in WESTERN UKRAINE and SOUTH-EASTERN POLAND

• Ukraine County Archives - Holdings
  Within these holdings the State Archive at Mukachevo contains the list of fonds for Zakarpattya County.  Generally contains documents pertaining to the former Hungarian counties Ung, Bereg, Ugocsa and Maramaros.  A cooperative effort of jthe Museum in Satu Mare, Romania and the Archives of Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg County in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary.  In Ukrainian.  Source: Janos Bogardi. 

POLAND

• ADDRESSES FOR ARCHIVES in WESTERN UKRAINE and SOUTH-EASTERN POLAND