OVAD in 1995 in Slovakia in these places:
http://slovniky.juls.savba.sk/?w=ovad&c=k240&d=priez...OVAD presently in Slovakia's phone book:
http://www.zoznam.sk/hladaj.fcgi?co=telzoznam&s=ovad&...Ovat, Jan Baskovce, Cz. Slov. 25 1897 1922
Ovat, Palne 38 1858 1896
Ovat, Zusanna Vagymihaly, Hungary 20 1892 1912
Ovot, Janos 36 1857 1893
Ovad, Anna Palin, Cz. Slovak 17 1904 1921
Ovad, Mihaly Palin, Hungary 44 1868 1912
Ovad, Anna Palyin, Hungary 2 1905 1907
Ovad, Anna 17 1875 1892
Ovad, Anna N. Mihaly 30 1870 1900
Ovad, Gyorgy Abobaskoer, Hungary 40 1869 1909
Ovad, Gyorgy Baskocz 32 1866 1898
Ovad, Gyorgy 18 1874 1892
Ovad, Gyulz N. Mihaly 2 1898 1900
Ovad, Janos Magy Mihaly, Hungary 24 1890 1914
Ovad, Marie N. Mihaly 6 1894 1900
Ovad, Michal Jarothes 35 1866 1901
Ovad, Mihaly Palin, Hungary 44 1868 1912
Ovad, Mihaly Peljen 35 1870 1905
Ovad, Paulina Orneso, Hungary 19 1894 1913
Ovad, Susana Orineso 15 1886 1901
Ovad, Zsuzanna Palyin, Hungary 25 1882 1907
Gomor, Mihaly Palyin, Hungary 16 1891 1907
Gomor, Mihaly Palin 40 1862 1902 These OVAT/OVAD arrived NY Ellis Island. It is possible that your John OVATH/TT [Janos] arrived thru other ports or before EI.
www.castlegarden.org Palin's and Michalovce's [Nagymihaly] church records you can view on your own computer screen.
this is the Austria that your ancestor came from
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/austhung.htm http://www.brainworker.ch/Oesterreich/Austria-hungary.png where 12 different languages were spoken.
"Czech" is a generic term for former Czechoslovakia, which in 1993 separated into Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.