Kevin, Every town (or small collection of towns) has a mayor or village administrator. It is entirely appropriate to address it to the Mayor, village name, postal code, Slovak Republic. Unless you're writing to a very large town or city, it will find its way. Everyone knows everyone. There are of course, people who will translate for hire. When I have to do that, I find someone from the country to do it via email. They will do it quite inexpensively (Americans might charge you $50-80. A Slovak might do it for $10 or $20. The other option is a couple of other discussion groups that have people who will do it for free, when the spirit moves them. You are at their mercy, but the price is right. 1. Delphi Forums: http://forums.delphiforums.com/iarelative/messages 2. Slovak World: SLOVAK-WORLD List Information Working with Internet we found out people who descend from Slovakia or some of their relatives descend from Slovakia. We mind it would be interesting to establish net forum to contact with. That was the main reason why we created this list. SLOVAK-WORLD is a an open unmoderated distribution list which you can use for contacts to Slovaks around all the world. It is not limited neither to territory nor to language, it is opened for all who have something to deal with Slovaks and Slovakia. List is maintained by Miroslav Gecovic (E-mail: gecovic@fris.sk ) and Ivan Pobis (E-mail: pobis@fris.sk ). To subscribe, send the following command to the body of mail to listproc@fris.sk: SUBSCRIBE SLOVAK-WORLD < your firstname > < your lastname > Good Luck, Bill Tarkulich -----Original Message----- From: Zawrazky Kevin [mailto:kevin.zawrazky@siemens.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 2:40 PM To: SLOVAKIA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Writing a letter to the City of Gajary Hi All, I need some help....I want to write a letter to the "Mayor" of the town Gajary to ask about how the city was founded and the general history of the city. Also, want to ask the "mayor" if they know about my relatives that were from the town. The problem is first, I don't know who to write to (is there a "mayor" in the town of Gajary, like we have in the US); second - can I write to the "mayor" in english, if not where can I search to translate my letter to Slovak. Thanks for eveyones help, Kevin Zawrazky ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237