Help with Slovakia records

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This discussion was created from comments split from: Who do I talk to about a mistake in indexing?.

Mary Saboe

Julie I hope you are the right person to contact for this issue. Slovakia; FHL microfilm 1,981,420 lists 3 items 1. Evangelical Rcds for Roznava 2. Reformed Rcds for Resica and 3. Roman Catholic rcds for Revuca. However during my search for the surname Szabo, I found that item 2 and 3 listed the same names and both files have Resica and Revuca records. The Szabos I am looking for were Roman Catholic so I need to know which faith I am looking at in these records. Specifically I was looking at Andras Szabo 1782 and Ersebeth Szabo 1785 which both indicate they were from Resica. Can you tell me if these are Roman Catholic or Reformed Christian records? Joe

Julia Szent-Györgyi

@Mary Saboe (or Joe), it looks like you should be able to determine the denomination based on the place reported in the index: the catalog indicates that item 2 on film 1981420 is Reformed records from Reste (Rešica), while item 3 is Roman Catholic records from Nagyrőcze (Revúca). This means that the Szabos you found in Rešica were Calvinists (=Reformed); this is also supported by the fact that their names are clearly in Hungarian, not the Latin that a Roman Catholic record from that time would've used. (In a Roman Catholic record, they would've been Andreas and Elisabetha, not Andras and Ersebeth.)

The only Szabó that the index coughs up from item 3 on this film is a Martinus baptised in 1814 (https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&q.filmNumber=4948332&q.surname=Szabo&c.birthLikePlace1=on&f.birthLikePlace0=5&c.birthLikePlace2=on&f.birthLikePlace1=5%2CSlovakia&f.birthLikePlace2=5%2CSlovakia%2CBansk%C3%A1%20Bystrica). You can tell that this record is Roman Catholic based on the given names, which are all clearly in Latin: Martinus, Juditha. (In Hungarian, these would be Márton and Judit.)