Author

Publication

2001 - G. Valko, Chicago, IL, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

9,750 words, Guess

Page Count

39 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100967970628
  • ISBN-139780967970622
  • Goodreads4644575
  • Library of Congress Control Number2001269751
  • OCLC Control Number47164539
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC929/.2/0973
  • LCCCS71.V167 2001

Description

It might come as a surprise to you that I was born and raised right in your back yard, in Whiting, Indiana. Yes, that small town wedged in against the south-east Chicago city limits in the north-west corner of Indiana at the Indiana-Illinois state line. That is where my parents settled down after leaving Bela, okres [area] Sv. [St.] Martin, Turcianska Zupa [county], Slovensko [Slovakia] at the turn of the 19th century, along with thousands of other Slavs, obviously because of the abundance of work at the oil refineries and steel mills located there. That area had a large mixture of Slovaks, Czechs, Russians, Poles, Hungarians, and other central European immigrants...

Subjects

Topics

GenealogyValko familySlovak AmericansIndiana -- GenealogyWhiting (Ind.) -- GenealogySlovak Americans -- Genealogy

People

Valko family

Genres

  • Genealogy

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