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From: "Robert R. Cherti" <>
Subject: Re: [HUNGARY-L] pen pals
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 06:48:24 -0500
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Just to say that I did the very same and now I have an English Teacher in the
local school who not only has become a pen pal but has been doing research for
and has come up with some very interesting documents for me. Bob

wrote:

> Dear List,
> I have been researching my family from Jolsva (today Jelsava) and got lucky.
> Did a web search on the town and found a web site for the town. It had
> pictures of the town, old architecture, history of the town, history of some
> of the old buildings, and a page with a bit of information on surrounding
> towns. Unfortunately it was all in Slovak and I couldn't read it, but the
> pictures were nice. The population of the town is only 4,000 and the web
> host lives in Revuca, close by, but population of only 14,000. Still a small
> town. He had an E-mail address, so I figured, nothing ventured, nothing
> gained and sent an E-mail. Just mentioned that I was research my family from
> that town and would like to communicate with any English speaking person.
> Turned out that he knows enough English to communicate and answered my
> E-mail. He mentioned that he would be happy to answer any questions I may
> have about the area, and it looks like I made a new pen pal. This was
> mentioned because so many people are researching so many towns, and maybe you
> may wish to try this out, and hopefully will get as lucky. Good Luck
> Joyce

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