BANAT-L Archives

Archiver > BANAT > 1999-04 > 0924400174


From: "the Gregorys" <>
Subject: Re: [BANAT-L] Re: Shinlar Slovania
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 20:49:34 -0500


Could he possibly be looking for Zsemlar (Zemliare, Zemliary) in SLOVAKIA?
This village is not too far to the NW of Budapest just to the south of
Levice. Not too far for him to meet his future bride in Budapest. ???
Shelley Gregory

-----Original Message-----
From: Guenter Junkers <>
To: <>
Date: Saturday, April 17, 1999 6:21 PM
Subject: [BANAT-L] Re: Shinlar Slovania

>Keith Dalbec wrote:
>
>>My great grandfather, George Grus, reportedly came from
>Slovania in the late 1880's.
>There is no country like Slovania. What could you mean:
>Slovenia (the today state south of Austria) or Slavonia (now
>part of Croatia)? Find out the immigration documents! There
>you get the origin.
>
>>We know little about him except that my
>>mother recalled his home village as Shinlar, at least it sounded like
>>that. I have been unable to find anything like that sound in Slovania.
>>I did find on one of your maps of Hungary a town called, Gynla, could
>>that be pronounced in some way like Shinlar or Shinla.
>
>There is no place in Hungary like this. Did you read Gyula?
>This is not the place you are looking for. It is pronounced: Djula.
>
>>we know that he met and married my greatgrandmother,
>>Anna Martin, from Budapest. Is Martin a Hungarian name?
>
>It is a German name. When the marriage was before 1895 you
>can find it in the Budapest parish microfilm in your next LDS branch.
>
>Guenter
>
>
>
>==== BANAT Mailing List ====
>Searchable Archives at: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl
>Threaded archives at: http://lists.rootsweb.com/~archiver/lists/
>Enter BANAT for the list name.
>
>

This thread: