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mrs_sweetpeach ([personal profile] mrs_sweetpeach) wrote2007-06-25 02:58 pm
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Most frustrating discovery of the day

I thought I'd pinned down the birthplace of my maternal grandfather. According to Wikipedia, there are no less than three villages named Lúčky in Slovakia:

  • Lúčky, Michalovce District

  • Lúčky, Ružomberok District

  • Lúčky, Žiar nad Hronom District


How on earth do I go about figuring out which one is right? Especially when I can neither speak nor read Slovak?

And the Lucky district is...

[identity profile] bwittig.livejournal.com 2007-06-25 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
My plan for ancestral origins has been to depend on years of research by Aunts and cousins.

Well...

[identity profile] belladonna-sw.livejournal.com 2007-06-26 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
I think the one that's closst to Austria/Hungary since the borders were so fluid during WWI and 2...That's my take...