Slovakia – FamilySearch has almost doubled the number of scanned images it holds in its Slovakia church and synagogue collection. The collection now totals more than 1.3 million images. These are images of baptisms/births, marriages and burials from various Roman Catholic, Evangelical Lutheran, Reformed Church parishes and Jewish synagogues. The images cover a broad range of dates from 1592 (the beginning of church records in Slovakia) to 1910. In Slovakia, most of the Roman Catholic registers started in the early 1700s, while Protestant church registers usually began in the late 1600s. A law in 1868 allowed different religious groups to use their preferred language in church records, so later records tend to be in many languages. Most of the early church records are in Latin, Hungarian or Slovak. Early Jewish records tend to be in German, Hebrew, Latin or Hungarian. Access is free. [Slovakia Parish Records] >From http://www.genealogyintime.com/