Update on Slovak Research

Despite the flurry of Wallace and other New England postings, I am still pursuing my Slovak ancestry via microfilm.  I got two reels and looked at them for one day and promptly got a terrible cold and lost almost two weeks of research.  Luckily I could renew the films once and thus still have them, although the clock is ticking.  You see I can still either go into Boston and do research on my mother's ancestry or hop in a car and visit her ancestors' graves, but I can't exactly get to Slovakia (or Salt Lake City for that matter) in an hour or less.  Would that I could.

I am also wrapping my mind around the fact that my research methods for this is off.  I was pulling back a reel or two of microfilm to review, based on time (you get the reels for three weeks) and money (it costs $5.50 per reel, per three weeks--you get one renewal only).  The problem is to verify things you need to review births/marriages/deaths which obviously happen at vastly different time periods. I'm finding that when I want to verify something, particularly with all the common names in this one small village, I'm stuck.  I should have just ordered the eight reels for Myjava all at once for the entire 6 weeks [total cost $88.00].  Since I have four villages (three of which I can order now), I may just wait and do it all in Salt Lake City on a future trip.

I'm trying to both verify the research I had commissioned in the late 1990s with the added information I acquired by finding everyone in the 1869 Hungarian census on my own.  For instance, I finally figured out why the 1869 census seemed "off" for one family.  Jan Simek born in 1800 and married in 1820 to Kristina Holic also born in 1800 (yes, I have two Holic lines, although I can't connect them).  In the 1869 census Jan and a Kristina appear, but her age was significantly off, and she had a son born in 1856, which seemed unlikely for a woman born in 1800.  I now know that Kristina (Holic) Simek died between 1845 and 1855 and Jan remarried a Kristina Wdovjak.  It was she who was born in 1814 and had her last child in 1856.  That not only matched the census, but with a death record for her in 1891.  Problem solved there.  But as you can see, I needed to go back and get the film to check on the second marriage and death and that reel I didn't have. 

Luckily the records I've been using in Myjava are in a very legible hand and are written, for the most part, in Latin.

Comments

[Janet Zavoral]

I'm also currently reviewing all the microfilms from Tura Luka. I think we corresponded a few years ago about our Holic lines and had no evidence of a connection. Since then I have gotten much farther back on the 2 Holic lines in my and my husband's families. He and I even have a common Holic in one line. I also have Fusek, Jandik, Skaritka, Ferjanec, Chlapecka (several of those), Marcek, Fako, Dvorsky and more.

My farthest reaching Holics so far are Jan born 21 Jan. 1795 to Jan Holic and Anna Hancura (not real clear on her name). He married Elizabeth Chlapecka in 1813. We've also got Anna Holic born 4 Dec. 1804 to George Holic and Catherine Omasta. Anna married Jan Chlapecka in 1823.

Can you tell me what addresses your Holics in Tura luka used. My family seem to be mostly at #73,74, 75 and 76. One exception is my grandmother's family which lived at #350 (it was inhereted from the Ferjanec family when a Holic married the daughter).

I'd love to hear from you.

[Martin Hollick]

Yes, I do remember you. We are still not at the point where I can say we have common ancestors named Holic. You have two Holic lines and so do I and they are obviously related, but thus far we havent crossed over. My second Holic line lived at #331. I cant find where my primary (that is my patrilineal) line lived. I guess I never transcribed that data. At some point well figure it out.

[Lori Lowe]

Chlapecka family in Tura Luka, Slovakia.
I have recently received information from a family member - Descendants of Jan Chlapecka
Can you verify this information?
Jan Chlapecka was born on unknown date in Tura Luka, Slovakia. He died on unknown date in Tura Luka, Slovakia. He married Anna Mucha on 12 Jan 1813, daughter of Joannes Mucha and Elizabeth Mixad.

[Martin Hollick]

I'm sorry, but I don't have any information on this family.