Slovakia Research Tips and Strategies
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Slovakia Research Strategies
- Getting Started
- "How to" Guides
- Record Finder
- Online Learning - Video classes
- Finding Town of Origin
- Finding Records of Your Slovak Ancestors
- Online Genealogy Records
- Beginning Slovak Research
- Czech and Slovak Genealogy A Bibliography of Publications in English and Guide to Other Information Resources. Compiled by Miloslav Rechcigl Jr.
- Developing effective approaches to ancestral research in Eastern Slovakia.
Language Helps
- Slovakia Genealogical Word List
- Hungarian Genealogical Word List
- Latin Genealogical Word List
- Czech Genealogical Word List
- German Genealogical Word List
- Polish Genealogical Word List
- German Paleography Seminar - 10 classes
- German Paleography Seminar - Lessons on German Handwriting
Rusyn
Rusyn, (also known in English as Ruthene, sometimes Ruthenian), is a Slavic language spoken by the Rusyns of Eastern Europe. It is estimated that about 34,000 Slovakians are native Ruthene speakers. [1]
- Carpathian Reflections--a wide variety of Ruthenian and Ukrainian language helps
- Ukrainian Transliteration Tool
- Converting Russian Cursive to Print in One Step
- Causes of Death in Cyrillic Rusyn Handwriting
Slovakia Research Tips
Census Records Census refers to population enumeration. For statistical purposes the government periodically took a census of the population. Slovakia Census Records
Civil Registration. Civil Registration refers to records of births, marriages, and deaths maintained by civil authorities. Slovakia Civil Registration
Slovakia Church Records
Determine the religion of an ancestor Until the 1900s, vital records were kept by church parishes or Jewish congregations. The records of different religions were kept separately. If you are not sure of your ancestor's religion, start by searching Roman-Catholic records. Catholicism was the dominant religion in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. Not every village in Slovakia had its own parish. Often, several smaller villages belonged to one parish. Use gazetteer to determine the location of the parish or synagogue where records were kept.