Eastern Slovakia 
Genealogy Research Pages
Eastern Slovakia 
Families:
Stanislaw / Stanislav Family
The
parish records of Porac, Slovakia, are now available! Check the status of recent research.
- updated 19 May 1996
Kopchak / Cebula / Macala / Galayda Families
Sandor
(Sanders) / Smik Families
The Halcsin Family Records were found in the Odorin registers. Watch for information.
Joannes Halcin Sandor, son of Josephus Halcin and Catharina Szanetrik, born 05 May 1859
Baluch Family
Slovakia to
Pennsylvania Lines-- Lackawanna Co., Olyphant/Jessup
Gabris / Slaning - Rosipko / Lemesh - Smelik (Cmelik) / Harvaniak
Gabler
Homepage for Genealogy Research
The Havlicek
Cooperative - 
- has a comprehensive list of related surnames
The Krispin /
Krispinsky Family page features an introduction to the Krispinsky Family of Koterbach,
Slovakia.
Dorothy's Genealogy Center
featuring the Buczko, Orlik, Babon, Vodzak, Iglar, Prutz, Gabrysh, Stokosa, Bigos, Banka,
Pojedinec, Tomaskovic, and Maskala families of Frydman, Krempach, and Kroscienko in Spis
and Liezensk and Adamowka in Jaroslaw, Poland
Smolenak Family
Newsletter Researching the following names from Osturna: Smolenak, Homza, Figlyar,
Talyascak, Harabin, Rusnak, Zavacsky, Vanecko, Vasicak, Kopral(y), Krolyak, Tuszak, Vach,
Repcsak, Mudrak, Bednar, Krupjak, Szibjak, Drugacs, Pavliscak, Petrulyak, Lyach,
Jascenscak, Romanyak, Kasmarek, Glevanyak, Kusnirak, Gorely, Lazarak, Lavenjak, Bassar
and Penza.
The Varhola Home page
features the Varhola and other Rusyn families who emigrated from the two villages of Orlov
and Circ in what is today the Stara Lubovna District of Slovakia.
Related families include Plavcan, Hrabchak, Havrilla, Kulick, Kovalak, and Majdak.
Meduna Family
Roots - Altogether, information has been collected concerning 2,593 individuals. These
persons are mentioned in various documents all over Middle Europe, some as far back as the
early 1300's.
- The
Virosztko / Verostko Family of Baska, Abov Province, Slovakia, covering 160 years of
family history through seven generations in Slovakia and America
Carpatho-Rusyn Names from the
Carpatho-Rusyn Knowledge Base
We will be adding other families from the area and
more in the near future.
if you have a www genealogy page with ancestors from Slovakia and related areas, please
provide your URL to ancestors@iarelative.com so we can add it to
this page. If you don't have a www page, we can include your family or village information
as part of this www domain. Send email to ancestors@iarelative.com
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An American Cousin finds his relatives in Slovakia
A visitor to Slovakia asks What Kind of People Are These
Slovaks?
To everyone celebrating a birthday or anniversary this month, we
would like to wish you Many Happy,
Healthy Years!
Post your surnames and villages of interest on the internet along with your email contact information.
Searching in Slovakia is updated daily and now contains over 800 surnames being actively researched. Stop by and see if someone is researching your family name or add your surnames and email address. There is no charge for the listings.
Locations:Super Spis with color graphics by Helene Baine Cincebeaux
Banska
Bystrica Betlanovce, Renaissance mansion
house
Bardejov Bardejov,
another site Bojnice Bojnice,
- - the town, castle, zoo and spa - With
color graphics! Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia
Bratislava
Castle - - Now with color
graphics! Bocianska Dolina Cingov village with The High
Tatra in background Dukla Gabcikovo
and the Danube River
Helpa High Tatra Mountains Hronsek
- - Now with color graphics!
Kezmarok Kosice Koterbach /
Koterbachy Liptovsky
Mikulas Levoca Lomnica, a town history in
Slovak Markusovce Martin Medzev Michalovce Morske Oko Nitra
Osturna
Paludza -
- Now with color graphics!
Porac,
Slovakia, take a virtual tour of Porac complete with true color photographs courtesy of
Charles Stanislaw.
Predna Hora Presov - - Pribylina - Skanzen in Pribylina, a virtual tour of
a Slovak home in an open air folk museum. This is a MUST
VISIT site for anyone with ancestors from Slovakia.
Roznava Rudnany
Spania
Dolina, Spania Valley, an old mining town and Catholic church - - Now with color graphics! Sliac Spiske Podhradie Spis Castle
Spisska Nova Ves Spisska Sobota Spissky
Stiavnik mansion house Stara Lubovna Stratena
village, a view of the eastern part Strbske Pleso ( Strba Tarn
) Svidnik Tatranska
Lomnica Tatranska Lomnica,
the Hotel Academia in the High Tatra Mountains Trnava Turiec -
- Now with color graphics!
Vysne Ruzbachy Zilina, the
Povazske Museum
Zilina
Zvolen Zvolen,
a 750 year anniversary This link is now fixed
Maps:Map of Slovakia from the University of Texas Map Collection
Digital Map of Slovakia at Sunrise from the eunet gopher server
- Calculate distances between villages in Slovakia at How far is it? with our easy to follow
instructions
- Slovak/English translations of common geographic terms
Churches:Listing of Byzantine Catholic Churches in America
The 1996 schedule and scenes from the 1967 Pilgrimage to the Shrine
of the Weeping Madonna of
Mariapoch in Burton, Ohio.
The Slovak Roman Catholic Church of
Saints Cyril and Methodius, New Westminister, British Columbia, Canada - - Now with color graphics!
The Articular Lutheran Church of Paludza and the Articular Lutheran
Church of Hronsek - - Now with color graphics! courtesy
of the Slovak Heritage Live
Quarterly
- Paint you own Virtual Icon of Mary and Child using
your favorite computer paint program and our virtual icon template
Byzantine Icon Art and History
Liturgy & Art by the Monks of New Skete, books and recordings
Icons and Clip Art at the Orthodox Christian Page in Europe
Services and Information:Slovakia Document Store, rated as one of the best internet sites in the world
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Lemkos,
those people of the Carpathian Mountains, Warning:
Be prepared to spend an hour or two here if your of Carpatho-Rusyn or Lemko ancestry!
The help file that Slovak-World told you to keep when you signed up.
Parsec's Who? Where? People Finder This is a super
internet utility!
Slovak Roots -
Getting Started, A Guide for Researching Your Roots in the Slovak and Czech Republics by
John A. Hudick, is required reading for anyone doing Slovak and Carpatho-Rusyn family
histories.
- Life
in the Mills of Pittsburgh by Larry Ciptak, summaries of ethnic migration from Europe
to western Pennsylvania, was America the promised land for immigrants?
- The Czech and Slovak American
Genealogy Society of Illinois has a selection of shareware tools to help in the translation
of Czech, Slovak, German, and Latin documents The Slovakia Embassy in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. email: Jozef Horsky, Counsellor (Trade and Economy) - slovakem@fox.nstn.ca
- Consulate of
the Slovak Republic, Denver, Colorado
Latest Information from the Slovakia Embassy on getting genealogical research done by the Slovak Archives including samples of the research forms used and a user tips message area. Current as of 21 February 1996
- About the Family History
Centers
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Archives of the Czechs and Slovaks Abroad at the University of Chicago -
The Slovak Surname
Location Reference Project, -SLRP-, at the FEEFHS contains 3,500 Slovak surnames on
line with village of origin.
- Calculate distances between villages in Slovakia at How far is it? with our easy to follow
instructions
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Encyclopedia of Folk Culture in Slovakia in English by the Institut of Ethnology of the
Slovak Academy of Science - Allen County Public
Library has one of the largest genealogy collections in the world - Slovene-English and English-Slovene dictionary with
70,000 words
- Slovakia Today, independent
on line news about the Slovak Republic in English - - Tonight's TV Listing for Slovakia, very
interesting!
Genealogy, Part of the History/Social
Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers
A virtual tour of Kovacska High School,
Gymnazium, in Kosice, Slovakia, in English and a similar tour of Srobarova High School,
Gymnazium,
Kosice, Slovakia, in Slovak
Gymnazium Jura Hronca, a virtual tour of a junior high school in Bratislava in English
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Cyrillic Transliteration
tables from Princeton Library
Collection of Slovakian Flags in various graphic
formats 
through Sirius Agency and
their online catalog of cottages - Ludmila
Sunova runs the Vancouver Marathon Sunday, 05 May 1996, in traditional Slovak folk
costume - With color photographs!
- Eva Kyselicova, -
- the Painter of the Pinelands - Contemporary Painters in
Slovakia and a Virtual
Exhibition of their art
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The Andy Warhol Museum of Pop Art in Medzilaborce, Slovakia and the Andy
Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- - The Horehronie Photo Exibit - 1994
with great pictures from Slovakia
- The
Koerner Ceramics Gallery at the Museum of Anthropology, University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, Canada - - Now
with color graphics! - The Tinkers
of Kysuce from Slovak Heritage Live quarterly
- - Now with color graphics!
WorldCrafts Pysanky
Shop featuring Kit's Eggs
How to make your own
Pysanky with step by step instructions
- U.S. 1990 Census Surname and First Name Search
showing frequency of first names and the 89,000 most common surnames in America
- Switchboard, an on
line searchable listing of 90,000,000 households in America US State Postal Codes abbreviation list
Canada's Geographical Names! Search and retrieve geographic information.
Starting Point internet searchpage - AltaVista's Surprise CyberSpace
Jump, hang on to your hat. No telling where you will end up.
PC Today with a Cool Site of the Day
Photo of the Week:Every Sunday we will be posting a new Photo of the Week, featuring a photograph relating to Slovakia, the people of Slovakia, family research, the culture, or the history of the area. Stop by every week and see what is new.
Find out how you can have your favorite picture featured as the Photo of the Week too.
Foods and Recipes
The Slavonic Cookbook
and a sample pirogy recipe Sasa's Slovak Recipes and
English/Metric conversion tables
Eleanor's Kitchen for
Czech and Slovak Foods Kolbasa (Slovak Sausage) Savba's
Recipe Gopher features the foods of Slovakia
Easter
Bread - - Now with color
graphics! courtesy of the Slovak Heritage Quarterly
An Easter tradition, the blessing of the Easter Basket
Microwave
Sirok (Easter Cheese) and a more traditional version
Name That Tune
I can Name That Tune (
General MIDI ) in four notes. Can you?
The Lemko Association has a super cassette of Rusyn folk songs available.
OPUS Records, Slovak Folk
Music from Audio Box and Sanet in MP2 format. An Xing audio mpeg player is also
available at this site to play the music.
The National
Anthem of the Republic of Slovakia A portrait of a folk singer, Lucia Stasikova - - Now with color graphics! The folk dance group, Turiec
- - The folk ensemble, Zeleziar
- - Folk Group - Urpin from Banska
Bystrica
- - The Songs of Slovakia, featuring lyrics
to a variety of music from Slovakia - The
Vychodna Folk Festival, a history and dates for 1996 courtesy of Slovak Heritage Live - - Now with color graphics!
- The Detva
Folk Festival and the colorful folk art costumes worn there
1996 Calendar of Folk Festivals in
Slovakia - - Now with color
graphics!
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Summer Music Festivals 1996
- - The Dobro Festival in Trnava,
Slovakia.
John
Dopyera of the small village of Straze, was inventor of the Dobro.
- - Music Institutions in
Slovakia
- The Troparion of Easter, Christos
Voskrese!
Links to Genealogy Sites Genealogy SF with links to over 1,250
genealogy pages.
Root Diggin' Dept. by
Janyce with extensive links.
Acadian Genealogy
Homepage with over 1,000 links to family related sites.
Ukrainian WWW
Links with 2,900+ links to pages about the Ukraine Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the
Internet has over 2,400 links
GenWeb's listing of Indexed Family Information on the
WWW - Notable Citizens of
the Planet Earth features biographies of the famous Mail Order
Genealogy. How to get ripped off by mail if you don't read the fine print.
- The Dark
Side of Electronic Genealogy Research
- Twenty Ways to Avoid
Genealogical Grief
- Oral History Questions at
Gene Pool before you get started - Before you search through microfilm rolls of old church registers,
be sure to read the tutorial on
Deciphering Old Handwriting at the
Treasure Maps Genealogy
Research Room Page and the Examples of 17th Century
Handwriting at Gene Pool - Tips on
Preserving old photographs and documents and Restoring Old Photographs that have faded
- Preserving Personal Papers and Photographs, tips from the Arizona Archives
- Make a calendar page for the month your parents married or or
grandfather was born at
WWW Calendar Generator
v2
- Genealogy, Calendars and
Dating, everything you need to know
- Historic
Events and Birth Dates of the Day by Scope Systems
- Genealogy
Icons for Windows
- On the lighter side, a most enjoyable list of Genealogy Taglines
from Melanie
McCluskey's award winning genealogy site in England To make suggestions, additions and corrections to these pages send e-mail to Greg@iarelative.com
or write 
Greg Kopchak, 2233 Keeven Lane
Florissant, MO 63031 USA
+(314) 831-9482 
Eastern
Slovakia - Slovak and Carpatho-Rusyn Genealogy Research has won the Golden
Web Top 8% Award for
genealogy sites for the second quarter of 1996.
We thank everyone who made contributions to our world wide web site since we went on line in January for making this award happen.
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