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My ancestors came from Norway (small town near Bergen, and another side from a small town north of Trondheim), Sweden, and Northern Germany (Prussia when they left I believe).
My mom was raised Roman Catholic and converted to Lutheran when she married my dad. I was raised Lutheran, and am now ByzCath, so I consider myself a descendent of the Varangian Guard (Viking body guards for the Byz Emperor)!
Sorry, I know that wasn't the question, but really wanted to answer! Remember, they say the word "slav" is from the Norse language. In English this word is spelled slave. As history would have it the Vikings weren't always so nice to the Europeans they broadly called "slavs." I could be wrong, but this is the history of the word I had heard one time. People here could proove me wrong (and yes, I am being serious on this one, contrary to my recent posts on other threads). Mark? Do I have this correct?
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On behalf of all Viking descendants everywhere, sorry for all the pillaging and all that. We were going through and adolescent phase of drinking, eating mushrooms, and general misbehavior.
We've mellowed out since then. Honest.
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No idea. All my life, my grandpa was Czech and Roman Catholic. Three years ago I learned he was a Rusyn Greek Catholic.
I could give you directions to where my mother's family came from in Slovenia and was able to find the passenger manifest from my great-grandmother's trip here because I knew who she traveled with, family names and other villages in the area, but don't have any idea when either side of my grandmother's family came from Norway or Ireland. Though I do know where their farm in WI was.
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Grandpa was from Vojkovce, near Presov, Spis county, Slovakia.
Grandma from Uhryn, Powiat Nowy Sancz, Lemkivshchyna. A proud Ukrainian. Do you mean Vilkovce, Spish Co.; Valkovce Sharis County or Vojtovce,Zemplen Co? Can't find Vojkovce on the c.1912 Prof. Perejda map. Ungcsertezs
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I live 5 minutes from Resurrection Cemetery in Justice, Illinois, and for along time I assumed it was a Polish Cemetery, then one day while looking for the grave of a gangster who happened to be Slovak, I noticed that the inscriptions on the headstones were different than the ones in most other sections, then I began noticing different names with V's in them. Turned out the cemetery had an old Slovak section, that no one in the office or from some of the Slovak cultural associations I contacted, were even aware of.
To my knowledge that section was Roman Catholic, but I have found several Eastern bar crosses in other parts, with names that obviously weren't Polish.
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