Valko family genealogy
Subtitle: Zaturcie (Martin), Slovakia to Whiting, Indiana, c. 1770-2000
By: researched, compiled, edited, and published by George Valko.
Publisher: G. Valko
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chicago, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 39
Subjects: Valko family.; Slovak Americans -- Genealogy.; Whiting (Ind.) -- Genealogy.; Indiana -- Genealogy.
Genres: Genealogy.
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...
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Maps also on all covers.
Table of contents: title: North American Slovaks Today . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i Reading This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii VALKO descendants chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii-iv C H A P T E R 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Valko family Zaturcie Martin, Slovakia to Whiting, IN c. 1770 - 2000 . . . . . . . . 1 GENERATION NO. 1 Valko family and Martin area parish register data . . . . 1-2 C H A P T E R 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 GENERATION NO. 2 Valko family and early family chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4 C H A P T E R 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 GENERATION NO. 3 Valko family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 C H A P T E R 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 GENERATION NO. 4 Valko family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11 C H A P T E R 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 GENERATION NO. 5 Valko family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 C H A P T E R 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 GENERATION NO. 6 Valko family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 C H A P T E R 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Listing the family of Rev. John S. BRADAC, Whiting, Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 C H A P T E R 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Listing the family of Rev. Stephen Daniel KOSTELNY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 The SLAVS, CHART OF SLAV GROUPS and LANGUAGE TREE . . . . . . . . . . 18-20 INDEX OF GENEALOGY NAMES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-22 ADDENDUM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23-36 RadixIndex and 1891 Austro-Hungarian Valko shopkeepers list . . . . . . . . . . . . 37-40