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This is Cybersysters other half (she was certainly the better half). The site hasn’t been updated since plans were being made for the fall trip in 2017. We did complete that trip and learned at the time that plans were … Continue reading →

What Has Transpired Since the Trip of 2015? I have not added to this blog since the big trip of 2017 when I became the first of the Szakács/Börczi clan to return to either Debrőd or Nemes Ládony. This time … Continue reading →

Back in December, 2014, I looked at my grandmother’s village of Debrőd/Debrad’, Slovakia. I was struck by the beauty of a picture posted by someone with my great grandmother’s surname, Szemán. My husband thought he could be a relative and … Continue reading →

The movie BEHIND ENEMY LINES was filmed in Slovakia in 2001. It’s loosely based on the story of Scott O’Grady who was shot down over Bosnia in 1995. He’s the guy who survived by eating beetles and other bugs. There … Continue reading →

The movie BEHIND ENEMY LINES was filmed in Slovakia in 2001. It’s loosely based on the story of Scott O’Grady who was shot down over Bosnia in 1995. He’s the guy who survived by eating beetles and other bugs. There … Continue reading →

On Saturday, Oct. 10, we decided to visit Hungary’s largest Catholic church, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption and St. Adalbert, in Esztergom. It’s the place where Szent István (St. Stephen) was crowned king on Christmas Day, 1000. … Continue reading →

In Slovakia we heard of this person and that person who “went to Auschwitz” and didn’t return. I was perplexed because some of us in the family had thought our family was Jewish. They are not and probably never were–at … Continue reading →

Well, actually I’m not ironman but my grandpa was. We visited Nemesladony (name-esh-lah-doen) today, the ancestral home of the Borczi (burt-see) clan. Grandpa was a Borczi. We met at the home of Borczi Lujza, niece of Grandpa. She is the … Continue reading →

Monday was the day to get out of Dodge but everything was closed. All of Slovakia closes on Monday. At least the attractions (castles, zoos, etc) are closed. But that did not deter our clan. We drove to the High … Continue reading →

During my research with the parish records of Debrod, I found the birth record for Miklos (mee-closhe) Szakacs (so-couch), the eldest child of Juliana Szeman and Andras (andr-ash) Szakacs. He was born about 6 months before his parents’ marriage. There … Continue reading →