Slovakia Genealogy Research Using the Wiki - Video Series

The Wiki Wizard videos give instructions for Slovakia church records (baptism, marriage, and death) to discover the genealogy and history of your Slovakian ancestors.

Wiki Wizard in Slovakia with the FamilySearch Research Wiki Videos

 * Learning how to use the Slovakia main page of the FamilySearch Research Wiki as an index of links to genealogical record articles, online records, and articles about genealogical research in Slovakia.


 * To use the records of Slovakia, you must know the exact town where your ancestor lived. Learn how to search for that information in family records, vital records, census records, cemetery records, obituaries, military records, Social Security records, and passports.


 * Learn to convert Hungarian place names for towns to their modern Slovakian name, locate towns that hold parish registers, locate county and region designations for a town, and find local civil registration offices, so that you can locate church records for your Slovakia genealogy projects.


 * For each region of Slovakia, find instructions and all the links you need to find church records in online databases and indexes, the FamilySearch catalog, and by correspondence with state archives and local civil registration offices, to help with your Slovakia family research project.


 * Learn to read Slovakian church records in Latin, Hungarian, and Slovak ,by using reading aids, translated column headings, and genealogical word lists in the Research Wiki to complete your Slovakian genealogy project.


 * A case study demonstrating a search strategy using the online church records of Slovakia to compile genealogy records for a typical family.