Need assistance with finding birth records for John Natt
Hello, I've been trying to locate foreign records for a close relative John Natt GRKT-DBR. I'm coming up short with records from the states and likely need information from what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was born 10/22/1881 from multiple US records. https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/GRKT-DBR
Records state he was born in Karasu, Czechoslovakia but I cannot find any towns related to Karasu or Korasu back then. His immigration paperwork also says he emigrated as Jan Nagy, but I've found multiple records for Johnn Natt, John Nagy, John Nat, etc., but I'm not having any luck finding foreign birth records. I've hit a wall…
Appreciate any help with my search!
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I think your best bet would be to contact the archives of the Diocese of Cleveland at (216)696-6525 ext.3450, and ask them to look up John Natt's marriage record at St. Martin's parish.
It should have his birthplace and parents' names.
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I'll give that a try, thank you!
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Hi Thomas-
You mention immigration records. Have you found a Declaration of Intent for Citizenship? The DOI process sometimes captured the emigration ship correctly. The emigration ship information may give more detail on home country contact (possibly village of origin).
I would look for 1910 and 1920 Census records for this man. The page you referenced seems to mention only the 1930 Census. Have you found the others? Did he live anywhere other than Cleveland after arriving in the US?
Also, have you found a WW1 Draft Card for this man? That may be another source of background information.
Can you please post some pictures of the records that show the town name and also the spelling variants of this man's name? More information would be helpful in trying to triangulate. Nagy is an extremely common name to be looking for.
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So…Anna Gallick was born in Lackova. Do we think she might be Slovak - and that the Lackova below would be her birthplace? If so, her husband might be Slovak and or Rusyn. So his village might be somewhere not in the Czech Republic as it stands today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lackov%C3%A1
Lacková (Hungarian: Lackvágása, Rusyn: Лацкова) is a village and municipality in Stará Ľubovňa District in the Prešov Region of northern Slovakia.
History
In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1408. Before the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia in 1918, Lacková was part of Szepes County within the Kingdom of Hungary. From 1939 to 1945, it was part of the Slovak Republic. On 24 January 1945, the Red Army dislodged the Wehrmacht from Lacková and it was once again part of Czechoslovakia.
Geography
The municipality lies at an altitude of 560 metres and covers an area of 6.212 km². It has a population of about 172 people.
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A couple other things I noticed on the immigration papers. One line says John continuously resided in the State where he petitioned since 1906. So I suppose that he arrived in Ohio in 1906. Also, there isn't an affidavit related to the ship arrival attached to this form. Even though the language suggests there might be. I was unable to quickly find the 1902 ship emigration record matching the date written into the immigration documents. But it still might be out there.
https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2363/records/403101?tid=&pid=&queryId=79c97524-50e6-4fb1-9bc3-d2c0e4cf2179&_phsrc=fHO348&_phstart=successSource
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