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Gerak~ Hungary

Christina (View posts)
Posted: 7 Sep 2005 12:54PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: GERAK
Looking for information on Gerak's

Re: GERAK~ Hungary

Posted: 1 Jan 2011 9:49PM GMT
Classification: Query
Christina

Have you located a precise placename in old Hungary?
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/austhung.htm

GERAK in Slovak Republic's phone book:
http://www.zoznam.sk/hladaj.fcgi?co=telzoznam&s=gerak&am...
45 GERAKs arrived NY Ellis Island.
Gerak, Janos Viszoka 20 1886 1906
Vysoká, Slovakia
1773 Viszoka, Wisoke, 1786 Wiszoka, 1808 Viszoka, Wysoká, 1863–1902 Viszoka, 1907–1913 Magas, 1920 Vysoké, 1927– Vysoká [all the names this village was known by]
Vysoka's church records in LDS and you can view on your computer screen.
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermain...
GERAK in these locations in 1995 in Slovakia
http://slovniky.korpus.sk/?w=gerak&c=H6bd
An ALL site for research in Slovakia:
www.iabsi.com/gen/public

Re: GERAK~ Hungary

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 10:26PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Gerak, Morhart
I am also lookin for Gerak theyy migrated from that area to Canada in 1916

Re: GERAK~ Hungary

Posted: 1 Feb 2011 1:01AM GMT
Classification: Query
GERAK in Slovak Republic's phone book:
http://www.zoznam.sk/hladaj.fcgi?co=telzoznam&s=gerak&am......

45 GERAKs arrived NY Ellis Island. www.ellisislandrecords.org
Gerak, Janos Viszoka 20 1886 1906

Magas, Saros megye, Hungary
http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/maps/1910/saros.jpg now
Vysoká, Slovakia
1773 Viszoka, Wisoke, 1786 Wiszoka, 1808 Viszoka, Wysoká, 1863–1902 Viszoka, 1907–1913 Magas, 1920 Vysoké, 1927– Vysoká [all the names this village was known by]
Vysoka's church records in LDS and you can view on your computer screen.
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermain...

GERAK in these locations in 1995 in Slovakia
http://slovniky.korpus.sk/?w=gerak&c=H6bd

An ALL site for research in Slovakia:
www.iabsi.com/gen/public

You have some documents to confirm Vysoka as being the ancestral village?

Re: GERAK~ Hungary

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 5:06AM GMT
Classification: Query
I have no documents other than a statement from ships list arriving in Quebec City in 1913 (September of that year )with 4 young children.

Re: GERAK~ Hungary

Posted: 7 Nov 2011 11:26PM GMT
Classification: Query
antiquer100

.. and the arrival manifest should have a place of birth or last residence. Does the arrival manifest provide you with a location for your GERAK ancestor?

Re: GERAK~ Hungary

Posted: 8 Nov 2011 6:15PM GMT
Classification: Query
The document says Czernowitz.

Re: GERAK~ Hungary

Posted: 8 Nov 2011 7:42PM GMT
Classification: Query
Thank you.

http://www.jewishgen.org/communities/loctown.asp
which one:
Černovice, Černowitz populated place 49°22' N 14°58' E E M U G Czech Republic 53.9 miles SSE of Praha 50°5' N 14°28' E
Černovice, Černowitz populated place 49°29' N 16°25' E E M U G Czech Republic 96.6 miles ESE of Praha 50°5' N 14°28' E
Cernăuţi, Chernivtsi, Chernovits, Chernovitsy, Chernovtsy, Czerniowce, Czernowitz, Tschernowitz seat of a first-order administrative division 48°18' N 25°56' E E M U G Ukraine 253.2 miles SW of Kyyiv 50°26' N 30°31' E
Černovice, Czernowitz section of populated place 49°11' N 16°38' E E M U G Czech Republic 115.6 miles ESE of Praha 50°5' N 14°28' E

Do you know language spoken by your ancestor?

Re: Czernowitz, Bukowina

Posted: 8 Nov 2011 7:49PM GMT
Classification: Query

Re: GERAK~ Hungary

Posted: 8 Nov 2011 10:35PM GMT
Classification: Query
After immigrating to Canada - the Naturalization papers showed Czernowitz on them - nothing further.

As to language - they spoke English and what sounded like Ukranian??
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