Posted By:	Robert Jerin
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	Subject:	Re: SLACK (SLAK) Martin & Mary (GREGORICH)
	Post Date:	September 26, 2012 at 03:42:26
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	Forum:	Slovenia Genealogy Forum
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Nancy Here is Naturalization info for Martin, you can obtain the paperwork at the National Archives at Chicago. Mary or Maria (Slovenian spelling) would have been made a Citizen at the same time name:       Martin Slak event:       Naturalization event place:       Joliet, Illinois event date:       1894 age:        birth year:        birthplace:       Austria nara publication title:       Soundex Index to Naturalization Petitions for U.S. District & Circuit Courts, Northern District of Illinois and Immigration and Naturalization Service District 9, 1840-1950 nara publication number:       M1285 nara roll number:       158 film number:       1432158 digital folder number:       004641292 image number:       05545 Where did you find his ship manifest? I can not find it. GREGORIC is a patronimic name, from the male given name Gregor (Gregory in Eng) IC ending means son of. Have you checked the baptismal records for the children? Often times these will list the birthplace of the parents. The online Slovenian Phone book has 202 listings for SLAK (sounds like slahk) and 470 for GREGORIÈ http://www.itis.si/ Here is a link to the Slovenian Genealogy Society based in the city with the second largest population of Slovenians, outside Ljubljana, Cleveland Ohio http://www.sloveniangenealogy.org/ Once you find enough info... you will need to visit beautiful Slovenia, as they say located on the "sunny side of the Alps" Slovenian Slak, a nickname from slak ‘bindweed’ Robert Jerin Croatian Heritage Museum Cleveland Ohio