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The Family History Library (FHL) is  a library maintained by the Church of Latter Day Saints which houses a vast array of international genealogical records.  

Microfiche of these records are available in many centers across the United States and in other countries.  

Recently, records from Kuty, Slovakia are available from the FHL.  People who are researching these records notice that some very old Kuty records can be found in the records for the village of  Brodsky.   

From these records, many of us are finding our immigrant ancestors parents, grandparents, and siblings who did not immigrate to the United States.  

 www.familysearch.org is an official website for the Family History Library.  If you need some help getting started, please email us.  We would be glad to share what we have learned so far.

www.ellisisland.org is a free data base where you can search for the immigration records of your family.

www.ancestry.com  is a site where you can create your own family tree and search their online data bases to find census or other information about your family.  

Free membership allows you to set up your own family tree.  To search the data bases, you must be a paid member.  Membership can be on a month-to-month basis while you are doing  research.  They have census records and a lot of other very good data bases.  We subscribe  for a while and gained some interesting information about our relatives.  

We have also recorded some of our genealogy at that site.  People from our family contact us, if you want greater access to our family trees at Ancestry.com, or if you want to contribute some information to that site.  Our trees at ancestry.com are:  *Kadlik/Vavra Tree  *Whitaker/ Palkovic Tree  *Wurth Tree (which includes Stäckler)

http://www.geni.com  is another site where you can create your own family tree.  It is a free site.  Some people have had success connecting with their relatives in Slovakia.

http://www.newenglandancestors.org  NEHGS 

Slovak Genealogy Research Stategies.  http://www.iabsi.com/gen/public  This site provides very detailed information about searching for your Slovak ancestors.

  Slovak Genealogy Research Center has a wonderful workbook specifically targeted to searching for information about our Slovak relatives.  This book, Slovak Genealogy Research is available  for $ 13.00 and $ 1.75 postage from the editor, Ray Plutko, SGRC, 6862 Palmer Court, Chino, CA 91710-7343.  His email is  rplutko@aol.com

  Michal Razus,  from the Slovak Republic, is a researcher of Slovak genealogy and Rusyn genealogy.  We learned about him from the Jednota Newspaper,  where he advertises his services.  Michal was kind enough to do some translating for us.  Please visit his website at www.slovak-ancestry.com to see the ways  in which he can be helpful when we search for information about out Slovak ancestors.

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