Slovakia Genealogy Research Strategies

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Museums of Slovakia - link

Newsletters

Photos and Fun

• Very Interesting Photos (including Historical Passport Samples)

• Slovakia Postcards

• Hay Racks in Nová Sedlica, Ulič and Prislop

• Learn About the Beautiful Rusyn Wooden Churches

• Find Photos of many Eastern Slovakia Villages

• Photo Gallery by Mick Sura

• Curiosities of Church Registers

Travel

• 2001 Trip to Eastern Slovakia, Bill Tarkulich

• Ljuta, Ukraine

Reference Materials

• Locate Language Guides useful to Genealogists

• Useful Newsletter - Gen Dobry - Polish-centric, with many articles useful to Slovakia research

• Useful Newsletter - Nu, What's Nu? - Jewish-centric, with many articles useful to Slovakia research

• Heritagequest Articles (Origin, Immigration, Records)

Property Records

• Slovakia Property ownership database and claims procedures by Peter Nagy (offsite)

Other Resources

• European Archives

• Meet other Researchers

• Museums of Slovakia

Immigration to America

• Writing to the INS for an Immigrants' Records

• A Discussion About Errors in the Ellis Island Database

• Using Ellis Island Database (EIDB) Effectively

• Reasons for Emigration, Why Our Ancestors Didn't Want to Talk

• "They changed our name at Ellis Island"

Religion

• Wooden Churches

• Orthodox Church in Czech and Slovak Republics, CNEWA
• Ruthenian Catholic Church, CNEWA
• Slovakia's Greek Catholics, Jacqueline Ruyak CNEWA Our Magazine, 1993, Vol. 9:4 (July)
• Liquidation of the Greek Catholic Church by the State, Ukraine
• The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Soviet State (1939–1950), CIUS Press
• The Rusyns of Slovakia, Paul Magocsi
• The Liquidation of the Greek Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia in 1950, Michal Barnovsky ; SOUDOBE DEJINY, Institute for Contemporary History, Czech Republic
• Vasiľ Hopko (1904-1976), Vatican
• Greek Catholics, Latin Catholics and Orthodox in Ukraine: Who’s who?
• Curiosities of Church Registers - An unusual drawing found in a death register, begs for an explanation. (June, 2005)

Social, Cultural

• Rusyn Names

• Nobility

• Pre-1848 Social Status in the Villages of Present-day Slovakia, Vladimir Bohinc

• Many Things Rusyn

• More

Stories, Readings - A peek into social traditions and customs

• Slovak Family Traditions 1997

• History of the Grisak Family, John Grisak,  (1873-1950) life in Slovinky, Slovakia & immigration to the USA (PDF)

• Below Snina Rock

• History of the Ulič Valley - A 2002 rewrite

• Under the Carpathians (1946)

Mining for Village & Country Information

• Slovakia-based "Zoznam" site - Similar to Google, but has a strictly-Slovakia focus.  Some understanding of the Slovak language is useful.

• Slovaklinks - When you run entirely out of ideas where to look, here is an alphabetical reference to most sites related in some fashion to Slovakia.  Updated often.

• Iarelative

Handy Computer Stuff

• TinyURL - convert a really long web address into something short that won't be broken apart in e-mail.

• Foreign Language Characters for Microsoft Windows - Instructions on how to install these "character sets" on your computer.

• Image Shack  - A free place to post your photos or scans for all to see

Kudos

• A very nice 2003 article written in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review indicating how this web site significantly helped the author.

Inspiration and Perspiration

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Last Update: 27 April 2013                                                    Copyright © 2003-2013, Bill Tarkulich