To all who answered my query, I say thanks. I think this response below that I received is probably the answer to the question of the Slovak Inscription "UD. C. 11 S. E. J." There are 5 tombstones in all, and are all located in the Hill Grove Cemetery in Connellsville, Fayette County, PA, which is not a Catholic Cemetery. The link for the posted cemetery research is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/fayette/1picts/cemeteries/hillgrove-connelsville.htm The link for each stone is http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/fayette/1picts/cemeteries/hillgrove-connelsville/frak-michal.jpg http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/fayette/1picts/cemeteries/hillgrove-connelsville/gubo-jan-banes.jpg http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/fayette/1picts/cemeteries/hillgrove-connelsville/kocerha-andrej.jpg http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/fayette/1picts/cemeteries/hillgrove-connelsville/kontra-andrej.jpg http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/fayette/1picts/cemeteries/hillgrove-connelsville/mico-michal.jpg The researcher is still in the process of complete ling a complete digital photographic survey of the site, so more of these inscriptions may show up, which is why I wanted to understand it's importance to those interred. Thanks again for all those who offered their help. Sincerely, Ellis Michaels Co-coordinator Pennsylvania USGenWeb Tombstone Project Allegheny County USGenWeb Archives File Manager Clearfield County USGenWeb Archives File Manager [email protected] "If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing" (Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac) I sent your inquiry to Jakubany groups at Yahoo and Rich Custer had this response: Ud = member C. probably = ��. = ��islo = (lodge) number H.: could this be a number and it was misread? If the above line is accurate then one would expect the lodge number here. S.E.J. may be Slovenska Evanjelicka Jednota = a Slovak Lutheran fraternal insurance society equivalent to the Prva Slovenska Katolicka Jednota / First Catholic Slovak Union. However, "S.E.J." wasn't the full/official name of that Lutheran society. If the gravestones with this inscription were in a Roman Catholic cemetery, then it must have been something else -- perhaps they were misread and they actually say "P.S.K.J.", i.e., First Catholic Slovak Union. If they were in a non-sectarian (public) or Protestant cemetery then perhaps it's the Lutheran society option. Ron