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Hello,

my name is Kinga and I'm new on this site. Unfortunately I do not speak Slovak so I will post my message in English.
I'm looking for my husband's ancestors that came to America from Slovakia. I am in particular interested in Pal Vetreczin and Maria Klaczik ( I think that is how her last name was spelled; unfortunately many last names were changed due to spelling errors, etc). They married around 1904, were both from Pinkovce (Sobrance). Pal immigrated to United States in 1904, his wife and infant son a year later. I do not have any information about Pal's parents, in case of Maria, names of her parent (Janos and Maria Yencho, again spelling. I suspect that last name is something entirely different but have no idea from which form it originated) were given on her marriage certificate with her second husband. I know from the ships' manifests that Pal was born around 1876 (also, his death certificate from 1914 lists his date of birth as 29 of June 1876) and he traveled to USA in 1904 with his 15 year old brother Mihaly. When it comes to Maria, she was listed as 21 year old when she traveled in 1905.The family here is of the opinion that both Pal and Maria were roman catholic. At least their children were baptized as such however I did find records fro Klaczik in reformed Christian church in Pinkovce via familysearch.org. Unfortunately the key record which I'm pursuing is the marriage record for Pal Vetreczin and Maria Klaczik (Klacik/Klocik/Klocek, etc) can not be found through Mormon site as the marriage happened around 1904. I would be very grateful for any suggestion where to look for records after 1900, perhaps someone here is familiar with the area and could help?
Thank you very much.
Greetings,


Kinga Vnuk

Hello,
vital records from Slovak parishes microfilmed by Mormons are available until the year 1895. 'Younger' records from the village of Pinkovce, created between years 1895 - 1906 are stored within State's Archives in Michalovce, here is their e-mail address: archiv.ke.pmi@minv.sk
These records haven't been microfilmed yet, so I recommend you to write them an e-mail asking them to search for the marriage record you are trying to find. It is possible they will ask you to pay a fee for search and also a fee for issuing marriage certificate (this costs 5 euro). Mentioned records were led by state, not by church, so true religion of your ancestors won't matter there. From this marriage certificate, you should be able to discover following information about your ancestors: their names, birth date and birth place, occupation, names of their parents, information on their actual status (whether still living or dead) and their actual place of residence.

Fantastic! Thank you very much for your swift reply. I will e-mail the archive you mentioned yet today. This particular document should solve most of the problems regarding this couple.

Greetings,



Kinga Vnuk

I sent an e-mail yesterday. Do you know approx. how long it usually takes to receive a reply from an archive? I wrote in English but also did a translation in Slovak (via google translate), they will probably have a good laugh at that one but you can not say I didn't try.

Greetings,

Kinga

According to the law, State's archive has to send you a reply in period of 30 days after the delivery of your message. In case you would have wanted to write any more mails to Slovak archives, or other institutions, I recommend you to post your Inquiries here and we'll translate it for you. I'm pretty sure the translation given by any member of this society who speaks at least a bit English would be far more accurate than the one offered by Google Translator

LOL! Thanks Patrik!
It would be wonderful if you'd be willing to help with translation in the future. I do not speak any Slovak and using google translate seemed like the quickest option. If anything they will remember my case because of my unique Slovak wording and grammar!
I'll keep you posted about the progress of this case. I'm really hoping to find out more soon.
Greetings!


Kinga

P.S. By the way, do you have any search engines here in addition to the general "search"? (I'm thinking perhaps last name search) Is there any indexed info here? I know that Familysearch.org did some indexing of the vital records but naturally not all. It is naturally very trilling and exciting to search on my own but it would great to have an access to the database if there is any. Just wondering...