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WEB SITES
• Genealogy and Heraldry in Slovenia
<genealogy.ijp.si>: Q&A, links to surname searches, heraldry.
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• Origin of Slovene Surnames
<www.arctur.si/slovenia/surnames.html>
• Slovenia GenWeb
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• Slovenia Mailing Lists
<www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail_country-slv.html>
• Slovenian Genealogy Research Aids
<www.sloveniangenealogy.org/onlineresources/orgresearch-aid.htm>
BOOKS
• Researching Your Slovenian Ancestors by Branka Lapajne (BML Publishing Co.; write 108 Hollywood Ave., Willowdale Ontario, M2N 3K3, Canada)
ORGANIZATIONS
• Archives of the Republic of Slovenia
Zvezdarska 1, p.p. 21, 1127 Ljubljana, Slovenija, +386 (01) 24 14 200, <www.gov.si/ars/1a.htm>
• Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia
1525 New Hampshire Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036, (202) 667-5363, <www.embassy.org/slovenia>
• Regional Archives of Maribor
• Slovenian Genealogical Society
International Headquarters, 52 Old Farm Road, Camp Hill, PA 17011, (717) 731-8804, <www.sloveniangenealogy.org>
Croatia
WEB SITES
• Croatia Genealogy Homepage
<www.feefhs.org/cro/frg-hr.html>
• Croatia GenWeb <www.rootsweb.com/~hrvwgw>
• Croatia Mailing Lists
<www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail_country-cro.html>
• Croatian Genealogy Links
<www.curkovic.f2s.com/links.html>
• Croatian Heritage
• Croatian Roots
• How To Do Croatian Genealogy
• RootsWeb’s Guide to Tracing Family Trees: Croatian and Slovenian
<www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson27.htm#Croatians>
BOOKS
• Croatia: Land, People, Culture edited by Frances H. Eterovich (University of Toronto Press, out of print)
• The Croatian Americans by Ellen Shapiro (Chelsea House, out of print)
• A Guide to Croatian Genealogy by Adam S. Eterovich (Ragusan Press, from <www.croatians.com>)
• Croatian Pioneers in America, 1685-1900 by Adam S. Eterovich (Ragusan Press, from <www.croatians.com>)
• Croatian Genealogical and Heraldic Society
2527 San Carlos Ave., San Carlos, CA 94070, (415) 592-1190, <feefhs.org/cro/frg-cghs.html>
• Croatian State Archives
Marulicev trg 21, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia, <zagreb.arhiv.hr>
• Embassy of the Republic of Croatia
2343 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20008, (202) 588-5899, <www.croatiaemb.org>
Albania
WEB SITES
• Albania Genealogy Forum
<genforum.genealogy.com/albania>
• Albania Mailing Lists
<www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail_country-alb.html>
• Albanian Cultural Heritage
<www.albanianculturalheritage.com>
• Italo-Albanian Heritage Pages
<www.albanianculturalheritage.com>
• Yahoo! Clubs: Albanian
<clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/albanian>
BOOKS
• A Dictionary of Albanian Religion, Mythology and Folk Culture by Robert Elsie (New York University Press)
ORGANIZATIONS
• Embassy of the Republic of Albania
2100 S St. NW, Washington, DC 20008, (202) 223-4942, <www.embassy.org/embassies/al.html>
• National Albanian American Council
1700 K St. NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20036, <www.naac.org>
WEB SITES
• Cyndi’s List — Eastern Europe
<www.cyndislist.com/easteuro.htm>
• EastEuropeCenWeb
• E-Transcriptum
<www.e-transcriptum.net/eng>: Free genealogy translations.
• Family Search Research Helps
<www.familysearch.org>: Click on Search and Research Helps to find several guides relevant to Eastern European genealogy (also available from your local Family History Center):
German Genealogical Word List
Latin Genealogical Word List
Hamburg Passenger Lists Resource Guide
Handwriting Guide: German Gothic
• Genealogy Resources on the Internet: Eastern European Resources
<wwwpersonal.umich.edu/-cgaunt/eeurope.html>
• Hamburg Link to Your Roots
<www.hamburg.de/LinkToYourRoots/english/start.htm>
• JewishGen Shtetl Seeker
<www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker>
• RecipeSource
<209.157.67.146/ethnic/europe>
• Repositories of Primary Sources: Europe
<www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/eurol.html>
• Slavophilia
BOOKS
• Where Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust by Gary Mokotoff and Sally Amdur Sack (Avotaynu) and Where Once We Walked Companion: A Guide to the Communities Surrounding Central and Eastern European Towns by Gary Mokotoff (Avotaynu)
• Following the Paper Trail: A Multilingual Translation Guide by Jonathan D. Shea and William F. Hoffman (Avotaynu), with alphabets, terminology and records examples in Czech, Hungarian and Romanian.
• Historical Atlas of East Central Europe by Paul Robert Magocsi with Geoffrey J. Matthews (University of Washington Press, revised edition due out this spring)
• In Search of Your European Roots: A Complete Guide to Tracing Your Ancestors in Every Country in Europe by Angus Baxter (Genealogical Publishing Co.)
• Overcoming Obstacles to Eastern European Research by Serah Fleury Allen (Closson Press, out of print; copies available from Frontier Press, 800-772-7559 or <www.frontierpress.com>)
• Our Slavic Fellow-Citizens by Emily G. Balch (Arno Press)
ORGANIZATIONS
• East European Genealogical Society
Box 2536, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C4A7 Canada, (204) 989-3292, <www.eegsociety.org>
• Federation of East European Family History Societies
Box 510898, Salt Lake City, UT 84151, <feefhs.org>
• Interlink Bookshop
4687 Falaise Drive, Victoria, British Columbia, V8Y 1B4 Canada, (800) 747-4877, <www.genealogyunlimited.com>
Bosnia & Herzegovina
WEB SITES
• Bosnia-Herzegovina CenWeb
• Bosnia and Herzegovina Genealogy Forum
<genforum.genealogy.com/bosnia>
• Bosnian Telephone Directory
• Online Bosnian-English Dictionary
<www.bricesa.com.au/dict/search.html>
ORGANIZATIONS
• Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina
2109 E St. NW, Washington, DC 20037, (202) 337-1500, <www.bosnianembassy.org>
Bulgaria & Macedonia
WEB SITES
<genforum.genealogy.com/bulgaria>
• Bulgaria GenWeb
• Bulgaria Mailing Lists
<www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail_country-bul.html>
• Bulgarian Phone Directory
• Genealogy Macedonia
• History of Bulgaria
<www.bulgaria.com/history/bulgaria>
• Macedonian Republic Genealogy Forum
<genforum.genealogy.com/macedonian>
• Macedonian Republic Mailing Lists
<www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_ mail_country-mac.html>
• Slavic Cyrillic Transliteration Table
<www.loc.gov/rr/european/lccyr.html>
• 988 White Pages
BOOKS
• The Bulgarian Americans by Claudia Carlson (Chelsea House, out of print)
• Macedonia: Its People and History by Stoyan Pribichevich (Pennsylvania State University Press, out of print)
• Peter Menikoff: The Story of a Bulgarian Boy in the Great American Melting Pot by Peter Dimitrov Yankoff (Cokesbury Press, out of print)
• Who Are the Macedonians? by Hugh Poulton (Indiana University Press)
ORGANIZATIONS
• Bulgarian National Archives
Centralen Darzaven Arhiv, ul. Slavjanka, Sofia, Bulgaria
• State Archives of the Republic of Macedonia
Grigor Prlichev 3, Skopje 91000, Macedonia, +389 (91) 115 783, <www.arhiv.gov.mk/Ang1.htm>
• Bulgarian-Macedonian National Educational and Cultural Center
223 Allenberry Circle, Pittsburgh, PA 15234, <hillhouse.ckp.edu/~bmnecc>
Czech Republic, Slovakia & Carpathian Rus’
WEB SITES
• The Carpathian Connection
• Carpatho-Rusyn Genealogy Web Site
• Carpatho-Rusyn Knowledge Base
• Cyndi’s List — Czech Republic & Slovakia
<www.cyndislist.com/czech.htm>
• Czech GenWeb
• Czech Republic Mailing Lists
<www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail_country-cze.html>
• Genealogical Research in the Czech Republic
<www.mzv.cz/washington/cons/genealogy.htm>
• It’s All Relative Genealogy
• Letter-Writing Guide: Czech and Slovak
<www.familysearch.org>: Select Research Helps from the Search tab, then click on C.
• Online Czech-English Dictionary
• RootsWeb’s Guide to Tracing Family Trees: Czechs and Slovaks
<www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson27.htm#Czechs>
• Slovak and Rusyn Roots: Getting Started
<feefhs.org/socslav/hudick1.html>
• Slovak-English-German Dictionary
<premium.isternet.sk/slovnik/default.asp>
• Slovak GenWeb
• Slovakia.org
• Slovakia Mailing Lists
<www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail_country-slo.html>
• Slovak Telephone Directory
BOOKS
• Genealogical Research for Czech and Slovak Americans by Olga K. Miller (Gale, out of print)
• Granny: Scenes from Country Life by Bozena Nemcová (Greenwood Publishing, out of print)
• Handbook of Czechoslovak Genealogical Research by Daniel Schlyter (Genun, out of print)
• Oar People: Carpatho-Rusyns and Their Descendants in North America by Paul Robert Magocsi (Multicultural History Society of Ontario, out of print)
• The Rusyns of Slovakia and The Rusyns of Hungary by Paul Robert Magocsi (Carpatho-Rusyn Research Center)
• The Czech Americans by Stephanie Saxon-Ford (Chelsea House, out of print)
• The Slovak Americans by M. Mark Stolarik (Chelsea House, out of print)
• The Carpatho-Rusyn Americans by Paul Robert Magocsi (Chelsea House, out of print)
ORGANIZATIONS
• Archives of the Czechs and Slovaks Abroad
University of Chicago Library, 1100 E. 57th St., Chicago, IL 60637, (773) 702-8456, <www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/slavic/acasa.html>
• Carpatho-Rusyn Society
125 Westland Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15217, <www.carpathorusynsociety.org>
• Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International
Box 16225, St. Paul, MN 55116, (763) 595-7799, <www.cgsi.org>
• Czech Republic State Archives
Archivni Správa, Ministerstva vnitra CR, Milady Horakove 133, 166 21 Praha 6, Czech Republic, +420 (2) 321173
• Embassy of the Czech Republic
3900 Spring of Freedom St. NW, Washington, DC 20008, (202) 274-9100, <www.mzv.cz/washington>
• Embassy of the Slovak Republic
3523 International Court NW, Washington, DC 20008, (202) 237-1054, <www.slovakemb.com>
• National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library
30 16th Ave. SW, Cedar Rapids, IA 52404, (319) 362-8500, <www.ncsml.org>
• Slovak National Archives
Hungary
WEB SITES
• Eötvös University Department of Cartography
<lazarus.elte.hu>: Click on Map Pages.
• Hungarian Genealogical Word List
<www.familysearch.org>: Click on the Search tab, then Research Helps and H for Hungary.
• Hungarian Genealogy
<www.xcelco.on.ca/~genealog/hungary1.htm>
• Hungary GenWeb
• Hungarian Heraldry
<www.heraldica.org/topics/national/hungary.htm>
• Hungarian Links
<www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/9548/links.html>
• Hungarian Names 101
<www.geocities.com/Athens/1336/magyarnames101.html>
• Hungarian Village Finder and Gazetteer
<www.hungarianvillagefinder.com>: Subscription site of more than 30,000 place names.
• Hungarotips
• Hungary Mailing Lists
<www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_ mail_country-hun.html>
• Online Hungarian-English Dictionary
<www.freedict.com/onldict/hun.html>
• Radix
• RootsWeb’s Guide to Tracing Family Trees: Hungarians
<www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson27.htm#Hungarians>
• Writing Letters to Hungary: Dos and Don’ts
<www.austro-hungarian-genealogy-translations.com/dodont.html>
BOOKS
• Contents and Addresses of Hungarian Archives, 2nd edition, by Edward Reimer Brandt (Genealogical Publishing Co., out of print)
• Finding Your Hungarian-American Roots: A Guide to Researching Your Ethnic-American Cultural Heritage by Robert D. Reed (R&E Publishers, out of print)
• Fighting Troops of the Austro-Hungarian Army: 1868-1914 by James Lucas (Hippocrene Books, out of print)
• Handy Guide to Hungarian Genealogical Records by Jared H. Suess (Everton Publishers)
• The Hungarian Americans by Steven Béla Várdy (Chelsea House, out of print)
ORGANIZATIONS
• American Hungarian Foundation
300 Somerset St., Box 1084, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, (732) 846-5777, <www.ahfoundation.org>
• American Hungarian Library and Historical Society
215 E. 82nd St., New York, NY 10028, (212) 744-5298, <hungarianhouse.org/owners/library/library-us.htm>
• Budapest City Archives
H-1052 Budapest, Vâroshâz u. 9-11, Hungary, +36 (1) 317-2033, <www.bparchiv.hu/english/english.htm>
• National Archives of Hungary
Magyar Orzâgos Levéltâr, Postafiok 3, 1250 Budapest, Hungary, +36 (1) 356-5811, <www.natarch.hu/mol_e.htm>
Yugoslavia
WEB SITES
• Montenegro Genealogy Forum
<genforum.genealogy.com/montenegro>
• Serbia Genealogy Forum
<genforum.genealogy.com/serbia>
• Serbia GenWeb
• Serbia Mailing Lists
<www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail_country-ser.html>
• Slavic Cyrillic Transliteration Table
<www.loc.gov/rr/european/lccyr.html>
• Yugoslavia Mailing Lists
<www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail_country-yug.html>
BOOKS
• The Serbian Americans by Jerome Kisslinger (Chelsea House, out of print)
• Americans from Yugoslavia by Gerald G. Govorchin (University of Florida Press, out of print)
• Yugoslav Migrations to America by Branko M. Colakovic (Ragusan Press, out of print)
ORGANIZATIONS
• Archives of Serbia
Karnegijeva 2, 11000 Beograd, Yugoslavia, <www.archives.org.yu/history.htm>
• Archives of Yugoslavia
Vase Pelagica 33, 11000 Beograd, Yugoslavia,+381 (11) 650-755, <www.arhiv.sv.gov.yu>
• Cultural Society of South Slavs
3510 Xylon Ave. N., New Hope, MN 55427, (612) 544-6433. <feefhs.org/frg-csss.html>
• Montenegrin Association of America
805 Magnolia St., Menlo Park, CA 94025, <www.montenegro.org>
Serbian Genealogical Club
Nevesinjska 7, 11000 Beograd, Serbia
Serbian Unity Congress
17216 Saticoy St., PMB 352, Van Nuys, CA 91406, (818) 902-9891, <www.suc.org>
Romania
WEB SITES
• Emigration/Romanian Ancestry
<marinel.net/romania/ancestry.html>
• Guide to Finding Your Romanian Town
<www.rootsweb.com/~romwgw/romaniatownmap.html>
• Links to Romania
• Romania (Rumania) Homepage
<www.feefhs.org/ro/frg-ro.html>
• Romania GenWeb
<www.rootsweb.com/~romwgw/index.html>
• Romania Mailing Lists
<www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen__mail_country-rom.html>
• Romanian Cookbook
<hometown.aol.com/simonagscu/romancook.html>
• Romanian-English Dictionary
<dictionar.info.uvt.ro/base/newindex.html>
• Romanian Genealogy
• Romanian White Pages
BOOKS
• The Romanians in the United States and Canada by Vladimir F. Wertsman (ProQuest)
• The Romanian Americans by Arthur Diamond (Chelsea House, out of print)
ORGANIZATIONS
• Bukovina Society of the Americas
Box 81, Ellis, KS 67637, <members.aol.com/LJensen/bukovina.html>
• Embassy of Romania
1607 23rd St. NW, Washington DC 20008, (202) 332-4848, <www.roembus.org>
• National Archives of Romania
Bulevardul M. Kogalniceanu 29, 70602 Bucuresti, Romania
• Romanian Culture Center
200 East 38th St., New York, NY, (212) 687-0180, <roculture.org>
• Romanian American Heritage Center
2540 Grey Tower Road, Jackson, Ml 49201, (517) 522-8260, <feefhs.org/ro/frg-rahc.html>
• Romanian Ethnic Arts Museum and Library
St. Mary’s Romanian Orthodox Church, 3256 Warren Road, Cleveland, OH 44111 (216) 941-5550
• Romanian Folk Art Museum
1606 Spruce St., Philadelphia, PA 19103, (215) 732-6780, <users.erols.com/romuseum>
From the February 2002 issue of Family Tree Magazine
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