Re: Place name: Gromos Zerez mege//Kocsis-Kochis famly
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Place name: Gromos Zerez mege//Kocsis-Kochis famly
NotRight Now 3/14/11
You are right about today's Hromos for former Gromos, but your "Zeres" is actually Saros, the Magyar/Hungarian version of the former county called S'aris' (pronounced "SHAR-eesh") in Slovak. The area of that county is in today's northeastern Slovakia.The closest town of any size is Stara Lubovna, 6 or 7 miles northwest of Hromos and itself 10 miles south of the Polish border.
But, Hromos is a mostly Rusyn village, with about 2/3 of its population Greek Catholic and the rest Roman Catholic.What religious denomination was Peter?There was no church there a hundred years ago; RCs attended church in the village of Plavnica, a mile or two to the northwest, while GCs attended church in S'ambron, 3 miles or so to the southwest.You will probably want to visit your local branch of the Mormon Family History Library and order the appropriate church records, in order to build Peter's family tree.
In any event, here is a listing of the most common surnames of people living in Hromos in 1995:
http://slovniky.korpus.sk/?w=Hromos&s=exact&c=h936&d=kssj4&d=psp&d=scs&d=sss&d=peciar&d=ma&d=hssjV&d=obce&d=priezviska&d=un&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8http://slovniky.korpus.sk/?w=Hromos&s=exact&c=h936&d=kssj4&d=psp&d=scs&d=sss&d=peciar&d=ma&d=hssjV&d=obce&d=priezviska&d=un&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
You will see the Koc'is' (pronounced "KOCH-eesh") is, along with its female version, Koc'isova, one of the most common surnames in the village.Kocsis is how one would spell the surname in Magyar to get the same pronunciation.The word "koc'is'" in Slovak means coachman.The English word "coach" is derived from the town of Kocs in today's Hungary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kocshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kocs