This survey describe changes to the Slovakia holdings at the Family History from July 2006 through mid-July 2007 (July 18th).  The pace actually picked up in 2007.   All of 121 entries this year were new contrasted to 28 new entries in 2006.  We are also beginning to see the first update to Jewish records in a while; 10 Jewish records were added.

All the records added in the last 12 months were from the western territories of Slovakia.  The sources were Slovakia Archives in Bratislava, Bytca and Nitra.  The overwhelming majority of records were from Nitra.

Our cataloguer in the Salt Lake City FHL provided the additional notes with regard to Slovakia and other East European countries: 

SLOVAK REPUBLIC

1. Cataloging of Nitra is now complete

2. Banska Bystrica is about 60% finished

3. Bratislava has now been almost totally filmed, through the T's, alphabetically.

CZECH REPUBLIC

There is extremely important news with regard to Czech Republic records:

The FHL has signed an agreement to begin filming the Czech Republic Archives records:

1. In Třeboň, The FHL has signed agreements to microfilm all the church records and the 1921 census and the seignorial records.
3. In Litoměřice and Opava, the FHL signed agreements to film the church records.
4. Filming will be done digitally, but the FHL doesn't yet have the framework set in place to look at digital images for cataloging. The hope is to have the viewing facility operational the end of the year, but no guarantees.
This suggests it still could be a couple years out before you have images available, since they then have to put an external framework together for people like you and me to view them.

Summary Slovakia Statistics

• 121 Entries

  • 10 Jewish

  • 80 Roman Catholic

  • 31 Evangelical

   

• 3 Archives source:

  •  Bratislava (6 entries)

  • Bytca (3 entries)

  • Nitra (112 entries) 

SLOVAKIA UPDATE DETAIL