Hi all,

I was wondering if any of you out there are able to read this Hungarian
address and names(?), which I've posted on Viewmate VM7887. You can get
there directly at:
http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=7887


Please respond privately to me if you are able to translate this. Thanks so
much in advance for any help you can give me.

Sincerely,
Sheree Roth
Palo Alto, CA
ssroth@pacbell.net

the address is in slovak, not hungarian, and the addressee is "fany szrulovics".



....... tom klein, toronto

This is not Hungarian - maybe Slovakian?

Gila Miriam Chait,
Manchester, England


--- Sheree Roth <ssroth@pacbell.net> wrote:

Hi all,

I was wondering if any of you out there are able to
read this Hungarian
address and names(?), which I've posted on Viewmate
VM7887. You can get
there directly at:

http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=7887

Please respond privately to me if you are able to
translate this. Thanks so
much in advance for any help you can give me.

Sincerely,
Sheree Roth
Palo Alto, CA
ssroth@pacbell.net

Moderator: Although Sheree requested private responses I'm sending this response to the list to familiarize subscribers with differences between Hungarian and Slovak text.

It appears to be in Slovakian, not Hungarian.

I could not make out the name on the right side...looks like Menyhert
Osvegy??

Here is the address:

Fany Szrulovics
Zavadka
pp Zaluzice (maybe Zaluzicz) zupa Uzhorod
Europa, Slovensko

Good luck with your research,
Gabi

Gabriela Svatos
Richmond Hill, Ontario

E-mail: gsvatos@hotmail.com
Skype: agawabooks
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On 29/05/06, Sheree Roth <ssroth@pacbell.net> wrote:

Hi all,

I was wondering if any of you out there are able to read this Hungarian
address and names(?), which I've posted on Viewmate VM7887. You can get
there directly at:
http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=7887

I can offer a partial explanation/reading.

Line 1: As somebody wrote, this is the name: Fany Szrulovics.
The family name is written with Hungarian spelling, with "Sz"
pronounced like English "s" and "cs", like English "ch" in "much".

The remaining lines are an address in what is now Slovakia.

Line 2: Zavadka
Town or village in Slovakia near Kosice, see:
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/sk-gl-za.html

Line 3: p.p. Zaluz^ice, z^upa Uz^horod [where ^ stands for 'hacek' over 'z']

a) "z^upa" was a large administrative unit in Hungary (Lat. comitatus,
Ger. Komitat, Hun. megye), >from mid-19th C until WWI. For the division
of Hungary into such units, see the
map:http://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obr%C3%A1zok:Ung.png
Note the z^upa marked in dark at the top/right, labelled "Ung".

b) Uz^horod, in Hungarian Ungvar, was the capital city of the
Uz^horod/Ungvar z^upa (Uz^ska z^upa). This z^upa is marked on the map
above.

c) Zaluz^ice is a town in Slovakia, see:
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/sk-mi-za.html

d) I don't know what the abbrev. "p.p." stands for. It could refer to
a smaller administrative unit or to the post office or to something
similar.

Line 4: Europa, Slovensko
"Slovensko" is the Slovak (and Czech) name for Slovakia.

So the address adds up to: village (or a very small town) Zavadka,
near the town of Zaluzice, in the Uzhorod/Ungvar Komitat, in Slovakia
(part/most of which belonged to Hungary, which in turn was part of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire). Somebody better versed in the history of
Slovakia and Hungary can explain this better.

I regret I can't read the signature in the upper right corner of the picture.

I hope this is at least a starting point for your research. Good luck!

-Margaret Mikulska
silvagen@gmail.com

The "p.p." in the address of Fany Szrulovics >from Zavadka (
http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=7887)

stands for "postova podatelna" / most probably/ what one can translate
as "Post office".

Best,
Jan Hlavinka

An other opinion:

the abreviation "p.p." was used (before introducing ZIP-codes) as "posledna
posta",
that means "last post office" = closest post office which delivered the
postings when no local office operated.

Tomi LANG
Nove Zamky/Slovakia
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