Eastern Slovakia - Slovak and Carpatho-Rusyn Genealogical Research
The Eastern Slovakia, Slovak and Carpatho-Rusyn Genealogical Research Page offers tools, resources, and information to help you search your Slovak or Carpatho-Rusyn family history and ancestry. You will also find links to a wealth of information on the area now known as Slovakia. If you have questions about genealogy and research relating to the Carpatho-Rusyns, stop in at their Eastern Slovakia Genealogical Research Question and Answer Forum and post your question in the special section for Carpatho-Rusyn familes. To post your family search information on the internet, be sure to stop at Searching in Slovakia with over 18,000 Slovak and Carpatho-Rusyn surnames, try out the "all word" (village and surname) Pinpoint Site Search of iarelative.com and take a tour of the Carpatho-Rusyn village of Porac.

The Carpathian Connection
The creation of this unique web site is for genealogical research and historical education relating to those individuals who originated from the Carpathian territories and were of Carpatho-Rusyn/Ruthenian/Carpatho-Russian heritage. We also take into account the influence other nationalities had upon Carpatho-Rusyns which cannot be discounted and offer a major focus on the Slovak heritage. Superb essays, photos, travel experiences, immigration data, village histories, folklore and customs, surname querys, regional city data, reference materials, genealogy FAQ and more. TCC has been honored with numerous awards of excellence and mentioned in various ethnic newspapers and local historical periodicals. For those compiling their family histories, The Carpathian Connection is a "must see" for these heritages and territories.

The Carpatho-Rusyn Knowledge Base
The Carpatho-Rusyn Knowledge Base, established in January 1995, is the result of the contributions of articles by their readers and many organizations and author friends. They will be providing information pertaining to Carpatho-Rusyn Culture, History, Genealogy, etc., as well as links to other web sites of interest. Their long term goal is to develop the site into an electronic knowledge base for the benefit of Carpatho-Rusyns world wide as well as persons wishing to learn more about the culture of the Carpatho-Rusyns.

Carpatho-Rusyn Genealogy
Web site is devoted to matters related to Carpatho-Rusyn Genealogy. It includes the Carpatho-Rusyn Surname Listing, the Carpatho-Rusyn Immigrant Listing and other information for persons who are interested in their Carpatho-Rusyn ancestry.

Legacy Rus
LeagcyRus.com© explores and presents the questions of history, politics, religion, the Holocaust and the shared experience of the East Slavs. The story of Rus is the story of 4 great peoples: the Russians, Ukrainians, Belorusians and Ruthenians. LeagcyRus.com© concentrates first on the Ruthenians, the least known of the East Slavs. LeagcyRus.com© has a political and international concentration on all the peoples of the East Slavs.

Lemkos
The WWW page that deals with those peoples of the Carpathian Mountains, who are commonly known as the Lemkos.

Australian Rusyns
History of the small Australian Rusyn (from Vojvodina and Srem) community on the Web. We hope that this web site will encourage other Rusyn community around the world to make their contribution. We appreciate your contribution and comment.

Carpatho-Rus House
Information on the Rusyn people at the web site of L. Krupnak, an expert on the area.

Rusyn Association of North America
The Rusyn Association of North America from Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. This site is in Cyrillic.

Poland Border Surnames
This website has been designed to assist those searching for family in and along the borders of Poland that belong to the Poland Border Surnames Mail List through Rootsweb. Surnames for anyone researching genealogy in the former historical borders of Poland including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Moravia, Hungary, Russia, the Balkans, and East Prussia.

Ukrania
Ukrania has interactive resource for Ukrainian English speaking community. Includes web directory, weekly newsletter, discussion forums and other features.

Ukrainian Language and Culture Home Page
Compiled by Linda Hodges Co-author of The Hippocrene Language and Travel Guide to Ukraine.

Byzantine Catholic Church in America
Visit The Eparchy of Passaic official site, The Eparchy of Van Nuys official site, and The Eparchy of Parma official site for information on the Byzantine Catholic Church in America and the Byzantines dot Net web site.

The Orthodox Church in America
The OCA site is most comprehensive and you will find additional resources at the Patriarchial Russian Orthodox Church web site and Orthodox Christian Resources on the Internet.

FREE Relationship Calculator
Be prepared for your next family reunion with our FREE relationship calculator. Was that first cousin twice removed or second cousin once removed. You can find out in minutes. There is a special version of the page that will print out for portability.

Rusyn Bookshop

Browse through books on Rusyns including best sellers and featured books on the Rusyns including the new Carpatho-Rusyn Studies by Paul Robert Magocsi, second of a planned series of decenniel "national bibliographies" in Carpatho-Rusyn studies, this volume records the books, pamphlets, and articles that deal with all aspects of Carpatho-Rusyn culture in the European homeland and other parts of Europe and North America.


Eastern European FFA Links Page

Check out the newest links on the internet related to Eastern Europe and the lands of the Rusyn people.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has Personal Ancestral File® 4.0 for Windows available for free download.


Rusyn Vadium
You will need to install the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view these files. The newspaper is available at http://narodny-novynky.vadium.sk/pdf/

The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
UNPO is an international organisation created by nations and peoples around the world, who are not represented as such in the world´s principal international organisations, such as the United Nations. Founded in 1991, UNPO today consists of over 50 members who represent over 100 million persons. UNPO offers an international forum for occupied nations, indigenous peoples, minorities, and even oppressed majorities who currently struggle to regain their lost countries, preserve their cultural identities, protect their basic human and economic rights and safeguard the natural environment

The East-West Institute
The East-West Institute is home of the Fund for the Carpathian Euroregion. Their mission is to defuse tensions and conflicts that threaten geopolitical stability while building democracy, free enterprise and prosperity in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and other states of Eurasia.

The European Centre for Minority Issues
The European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) is a non-partisan, bi-national institution founded in 1996 by the Governments of the Kingdom of Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the German State of Schleswig-Holstein. The three founders are represented by the Danish Ministry of Research and Information Technology, the German Federal Ministry of the Interior, and the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Cultural Affairs

The Federal Union of European Nationalities
During the course of its existence, FUEN has become a respected discussion partner for governments and parliaments in many states of Europe and in European and international institutions through its consistent adherence to democracy and rights, its unwavering work for better protection for ethnic groups and its stance for peaceful dialogue.

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