William A Anikouchine wrote: > > On Fri, 2 May 1997 18:02:49 EDT Frances E Mokrenski <fmokrens@JUNO.COM> > writes: > >I am researching my family history and am having problems locating the > >town of my maternal grandfather. Can someone please help. The 1906 > >ship manifest said Jan Salaj from Olozno, Austria-Hungarian Empire. > >His application for marriage said Nova Ves Jglo C. Spis Uhorsko. > > I am not certain about Uhorsko, but Nova Ves (formerly named Iglo, hence > spelled yglo or jglo and also named Neudorf) in former Spis Co. certainly > does exist. It is now called Spisska Nova Ves. It is in Slovakia, not > the Czech Republic. It is located about 25 km SSE of Poprad and 50 km > WSW of Presov. > > About 17 km E of Spisske Nova Ves is the town of Spisske Vlachy. This > used to be called Szepes Olaszi (also Wallendorf at one time). It is in > a mining district Near that town are a few villages with former names > like Oms, Olysanka, Olono, Olyse and Odorin. The Hungarian word for lead > (the metal) is Olom. The Ol root could well imply lead-mining towns > named during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. > > It might be that your grandfather came from this area of Slovakia. You > might check the church records in Spisske Vlachy for his birth record and > the church records in Spisske Nova Ves for his marriage record. The LDS > (mormons) probably have the records on microfilm. > > Good Luck > > W. Anikouchine > > W. Anikouchine Hi! Try the net site, Searching in Slovakia for some good pointers, as well. Regards, Bonnie Cieslukowski Weissman