Re: Kershock
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In reply to:
Kershock
Bob Smythe 2/16/06
Bob,
Going to the image of the ship manifest, I find that the placename listed for Andras is really "Rudno," although the handwriting is such that it is easy to misread the last two letters.Andrej/Andrew (Andras is the Magyar/Hungarian version of the name) came with four others from the same place, including a Jan Krsiak; the placename for one of the others is given as Garamrudno (again, a Magyar version, Garam = Hron), so we know Rudno nad Hronom (=on the Hron River) is the right Rudno.
If you go to the site for the online telephone directory for Slovakia at
http://www.zoznamst.sk/eng/index.htmlhttp://www.zoznamst.sk/eng/index.html
you can do a search and find:
Name; Address
1.Jozef Kršjak; Rudno nad Hronom
2.Jozef Kršjak; Rudno nad Hronom
3.Otília Kršjaková; Rudno nad Hronom
4.Peter Kršjak; Rudno nad Hronom
5.RNDr. Peter Kršjak; Rudno nad Hronom
6.Vojtech Kršjak; Rudno nad Hronom
7.Vojtech Kršjak; Rudno nad Hronom
Krs'jak would be pronounced "KER-shyock" in Slovak.
Rudno nad Hronom is a village in what was once a largely German-speaking mining district (for gold, silver, and copper, I think) in today's west-central Slovakia.As the name says, it is on the Hron River (the east bank) a few miles upstream (north) of the small town of Nova Bana, which is on the west bank."Nova Bana" means New Mine and "Rudno" is derived from the Slovak word for ore. Ten miles east of Rudno n. H. is the old mining town of Banska Stiavnice, which is a UN cultural preservation site.
You may want to try writing to those families, as they are almost certainly distant relatives.If you go the the directory, do the search to generate these names, and then click on each name, you will get the street address for each family's house. The postal code for Rudno nad Hronom is 966 51.
More Replies:
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Re: Kershock
Bob Smythe 2/18/06
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Rudno nad Hronom Archival Records
John Adam 2/18/06
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Re: Kershock
Carroll Bessey 9/11/10
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Rudno nad Hronom Archival Records