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Position:Home>Genealogy> My grandmother was born in Pritulani Posta Nizna Olka, Czechoslovakia. Does itQuestion: My grandmother was born in Pritulani Posta Nizna Olka, Czechoslovakia. Does it still exist?She was born on June 5, 1891. Is there a way to see pictures of the area? How do you obtain birth certificates? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Ni?㡠O侫a (today: O侫a), where the nearest post office to your Grandmother's birthplace was, is in today's eastern Slovakia, in the historic administrative county (comitatus) of Zempl㭮 (Hungarian: Zempl㩮, German: Semplin, Latin: Zemplinum), today the district of Medzilaborce, Presov, Slovakia: http://www.fallingrain.com/world/lo/0/ni... http://www.worldcitydb.com/nizna_ol'ka_1... Until 1918, Slovakia belonged to the Hungarian half of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, in the former district of Humenne, and the Hungarian name was Homonna(olyka) / Sztropkoolyka. It seems to have been an ethnic Rusyn village, see http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/films2.htm... Here's an old Hungarian map (very detailed) of the comitatus Zempl㩮: http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/maps/1910/zem... I can't find any place name near Homonna that looks like Hungarian for Pritulani on it, though. The 1869 census of the district of Mezolaborcz (Hungarian for the present Medzilaborce) is available online: http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/1869txt.ht... Those guys who did the Carpatho-Rusyn knowledge base seem to be very savvy with genealogy: http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/ Then, there's a website dedicated to Slovakia that has the placename Pritulany, situated at 49'00"N 21'00"E . http://www.iarelative.com/p.htm... There's even a Wikipedia page on Pritu価ny: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... and finally here I found a map with both Pritul'any and Ol'ka marked on it: http://www.sazp.sk/mikroregiony/mikro/po... There you go. Happy searching |
