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Eastern Slovak and Carpatho-Rusyn Genealogical Research

My family data consists of information gleaned for four family lines in the Slovinky church Matriky. I know the surnames of most of the families in that town since about 1752 to 1929. I have Xeroxed birth and marriage records for intervals in the early 1800's so I can look for specific persons in that time window.

Slovinky was a Carpatho-Rusyn village just over the mountain from Porac. The Kranyak, Litska, Stecz, Uhrin, Olsavsky, Kovalchik, and other families had members living in both villages.

The town of Slovinky goes by that single name only in recent times. From the 1750's to at least 1930 Slovinky consisted to two locations about a mile apart. Upper Slovinky lay at the head of the valley extending up to the SW from Krompachy. The Slovinky River flows to the NE in that valley and gives it its name, Dolina Slovinka. The copper mines that were worked by the inhabitants of Upper Slovinky were on both sides of the river at the SW end of town.

Lower Slovinky lay about a mile downstream of Upper Slovinky. The inhabitants of Lower Slovinky mainly were farmers, but a few were miners too. More miners lived in Upper Slovinky.

The two towns were named Felso (Upper) Slovinky and Also ( Lower) Slovinky during the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (ca 1620 to CA 1920) when the Hungarian language was used.

The name of Upper and Lower Slovinky became Felso Szalank and Also Szalank in 1907. They are shown that way on the Austro-Hungarian Military Map of the region that was used to the end of WW I. The Hungarian names for the Slovinkys appear in the death records in the Slovinky Greek Catholic Church Matriky from 1907 to 1918 (the end of the death records on microfilm). It seems to have been the doing of Hungarian officials.

After World War I the Slovak spellings were adopted: Visne Slovinky and Nisne Slovinky (there are hacheks (v) over the s in Visne and Nisne) for Upper and Lower Slovinky:

From 1880 to 1900 nearly 40 % of the male population of Slovinky emigrated to the USA and settled in and around three towns in Guernsey County Ohio to work in the newly opened coal mines. The towns were Pleasant City, Byesville and Trail Run.

Below is a list of surnames, taken from the Greek Catholic Church Matriky in Slovinky, that Our Fond Memories is researching:

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