This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lRC.2ACE/3516.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Julie Up to 1918 the records would say Austria or Hungary. A map of A-H http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/austhung.htm After the fall of this empire several new countries were formed and one was Czechoslovakia which in 1993 separated into Czech Republic and Slovak Republic. No village Hereszfatak but a Mereszpatak, Zemplen megye which is Mernik, Zemplin region, Slovak Republic. Use http://mapy.atlas.sk or www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/loctown.htm to locate a town. To locate Mereszpatak / Mernyik go to http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/maps/1910 click on Zemplen, locate Varanno (Vranov nad Toplou ) and North of it is Mernyik (Mernik). An ALL site for research in Slovak Republic: www.iabsi.com/gen/public SK's phone book is at www.zoznamst.sk and area code 056 and 057 are in Zemplin region and a GERMEK, GERMEKOVA (female) in area code 056. www.helenezx.homestead.com www.slovaklinks.com www.slovakfolkcrafts.com Use a One Step to locate an EI manifest: www.stevemorse.org and from Mereszpatak a GYERMEK which is Hungarian spelling of Germek. The LDS-Mormons site is listing Evangelical church records of Mernik. The RC or GC would be in surrounding villages. If your ancestors married in "old country" than the villages would be within 10 miles radius of each other.