We all descend from the same people over and over. This is especially so when your families come from small villages that are contiguous as mine do in Slovakia. So it's not surprising that I have two Holic lines and two Szowiss lines neither of which I can connect to a single ancestor. You see all my Slovak genealogy is original research. I did the research myself. Whereas in my New England genealogy, two of my great-great-grandparents appear in books. It's too bad that I can't simply go to a Slovak genealogical library and look up some of my families in books and get lines that way. But Europeans seldom do genealogy like Americans do. We are all from some place else (except Native Americans). Whereas Slovaks have been Slovaks for 1,000 years. Britain does genealogy a lot because they are so class conscious. But except for nobility, Europeans are not so concerned with genealogy.
I'd love to push my Slovak lines back into the 1600s. But the original records just don't exist. So I'm left with my great-grandmother Kristina have two great-grandmothers surnamed Szowiss, each fathered by a different man, Jan and Juraj (George). Those men may be brothers both born about 1760. That would make my great-great-grandparents, 3rd cousins. Very possible. Also, my great-grandfather Holic had two grandparents also named Holic. I can't connect them either. They peter out in the 1730s. So disappointing.
I also may have pushed another Slovak line back a generation noting that they come from the neighboring village. That would be interesting. Again, a book on these people would be great.
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