"Bela Cerkev" means White Carniolan, the White Country Church. In the late 1800 to early 1900's Slovenia was a part of the Austria/Hungarian Empire. This was the Kingdom of Carniolan. (Now I know what that word means) Slovenia was under the rule of many of the surrounding countries throughout it's history. A good translation site is http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran If you can't find word meanings in Slovene, try Latin, German, Croatian, Hungarian, and possibly also be in Italian. Trieste was at one time a part of Slovenia. You could invest in a Slovene/English English/Slovene Modern Dictionary which is available at Amazon.com. You will find a lot of your tranlating to be guessing. Many of the words have multiple meanings and spellings. Also, single words may also be a phrase. I have an aunt who also helps with my translating as she grew up with the language. Don't give up. The more you do it, the easier it gets. Mary >From: "Georgea Sharkey" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: Web site for translations >Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 21:51:08 +1300 > >Hello everyone, I am new to this site and hope that someone may be able to >help me. > >My husband's Grandparents were from Novo Mesto in Slovenia, the family name >being PAVLIN/PAULIN/PAULINE. The spelling varies from document to >document. We have some documents that are from Ljubljana and need help >with many of the words that are written in Slovenian. Is there a web site >that has translations? We have a name "Bela Cerkev" which we believe means >"White Church" and appears to be located in Novo Mesto. > >If anyone can help in our search, we would be most appreciative. > >Kind Regards, >Georgea Sharkey >[email protected] > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.