GREETINGS!

Thanks to Sharon Glenn, Eric Taylor and Kit Kocka for bringing treats. We had a very relaxed meeting, lots of good discussion about so many topics. Next meeting is June 13th, regular morning time. Excellent sharing was enjoyed by all. A goldmine, that is what this group is!

MIKE COOK and mom RUTH beat me to the fire station and had set up a display of the Tomiska family chart with pictures. How lucky Mike and Ruth are to have that many great pictures. It looked like only one was not labeled! There will be a picture at the end of this report showing how he organized this. Mike and Ruth's Tomiskas came to NY in 1866. They went to Chicago, then Nebraska, ending up in Washington State.

KIT KOCHA (Kosa) had the pictures from her last summer's trip to Slovakia on her computer. She brought two wooden crosses that she bought there, plus a lovely folk vest and apron that was tie dyed. Kit's ancestors come from Kapusani near Presov. She stayed with relatives there, then visited the archives in Presov which is situated in an old monastery. The archives had the 1869 census for her village with her ancestors information. Kit then also took one of Helene Cincebeaux's Slovakia trips. Kit's grandparents left Slovakia (Hungarian Empire) in 1896. They lived in Minneapolis, MN and then Wilkeson, WA.

ERIC TAYLOR's grandparents came to New York first, then they moved to Kansas. Read his paper written as a project of the UW's Experimental College's Genealogy class: http://www.kancoll.org/articles/erictaylor/erictays.htm This is taken from our group's website. As the 4 Culture Heritage Lead (http://www.4culture.org) Eric has copies of the Roslyn Slovak Lodge records and is looking for a place for them to be stored in our state.

BONNIE PASEK ALLAN is researching her Svoboda line. They came in 1900 and ended up in Elko, Minnesota. She looked in the Baca books and found a possiblity, now has to go to the National Archives on Sand Point Way to czech out the passenger list.

SHARON GLENN just returned from a five day research trip to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. She found the old handwriting in the church records a challenge it read, but did find some good information. This summer she is going to visit Slovakia, first a week with relatives and then going on Helenes's tour in July.

ED SCHULTZ had a romantic "city directory" story to tell. He often wondered how his grandparents met in Chicago. Through city directory information he found both families living at the same address...which has two apartments. Ed finds that footnote.com has better city directory research material than ancestry.com. He shared the website: www.evendon.com which has great city directory material. too.

JANET ROACH's sharing had to do with city directories, also. First get the minister's name form marriage certificates, then in the special church section of the city directories, find the minister. Thus you get the name of the church and can MAYBE find church records. Jan also suggested we each should make a list of the genealogy books we have, then make a master list for the website. We could do a lot of sharing that way!

I need to copy cassettes of my son interviewing my dad. Ed suggested downloading the program AUDICY onto my computer. Then I can make the CDs myself.

Besides using the Google translation website for shorter translation, Ed showed us how you can translate webpage URLs: http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en# You do have to make sure the correct languages are selected, ie Slovak to English or Czech to English or English to Czech or whatever.

We also discussed backing up our computer files, etc. Time machine was one way, plus using memory sticks!

Since a few of us have Minnesota roots, I want to share this MN MARRIAGE REOCRD website, some of the counties go back to the 1800's. http://www.mncounty.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=108

Mike had half of his display put away when I took the picture!

HAPPY RESEARCHING!!

Rosie

Researching Los(s), Kure, Kubes, Smetka, Kratina, Pavlica, Jirinec, Hytych, Vasicka, Kopecka, Vojkovska, Uhlika, And Zindulka

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