At 03:01 PM 11/01/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Another Question now...Did the Slovak people have any customs for the naming >of thier children? This is from http://www.rusyn.com/crgiven.htm which covers Carpatho Rusyn research: "Daughters were generally named in a different manner. The eldest would be named Mary, the second Anna, and the third would be Helen. Children that were born later would be named after other relatives. As a result, the same given names (i.e., first names) would be used generation after generation in a family line." I am researching a village in Saros which is not Carpatho Rusyn but this pattern seems to hold true. I would say 85% of the girls are named Anna or Maria. I don't see any Helens but Barbara and Susan come in a distant third and fourth. Needless to say, this is no help in figuring out who belongs to whom! Donna