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Posted to Message board on June 18, 2015 by Barbara.
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Looking for Gogolach family from Checz and Sovella from Slovak who lived in the Wilkes Barre, PA area

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Comment by gsvatos on July 3, 2015 at 5:16pm

Gazetteers are a great way to find out the current name and location of a town. There are some free online, or if you are old school like me, I keep several on my bookshelf.

According to Majtan’s gazetteer for the town of Slovakia (ISBN 8022405302), Magyarbodi is now Bidovce near the town of Kozice.

Here is a map so that you can orient yourself:

http://www.mapy.cz/zakladni?planovani-trasy&x=21.1205500&y=48.6399051&z…{%22criterion%22%3A%22fast%22}&ri=0

Best,
Gabi Svatos
E-mail: gsvatos@hotmail.com

Comment by barbara.mittal on June 24, 2015 at 3:25pm

My uncle by marriage, John Hornick (or Hornyck), who emigrated to Montana in 1900 came from Magyarbodi. How can I find the location of that place?

Comment by gsvatos on June 18, 2015 at 10:41am

In order to assist you, it would help if you provided more details. Names of immigrant couple with approx birth dates/ place, names and dates of birth for their children, religion.

There was a Gogolac* family which settled in PA from Domanovce. This is near Levoca in Slovakia. Family search has digitized some of the records:

https://familysearch.org/search/collection/results?count=20&query=%2Bsu…

The LDS also have Domanovce records on three microfilms:
1739901
1739902
1739903

Good luck,
Gabi
E:mail: gsvatos@hotmail.com