Slovakia Church Records Reading Aids

Except for modern records of the 1900s, records in Slovakia were written mostly in Latin and Hungarian. Before 1918 the Slovak lands were part of the Kingdom of Hungary which, together with Austria, constituted the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Records written before 1918 may be in Hungarian, Latin, German, or Slovak. Slovak records often contain Hungarian, Latin, or German words.
 * Slovakia Genealogical Word List
 * Hungarian Genealogical Word List
 * Ukrainian Genealogical Word List
 * Latin Genealogical Word List
 * Czech Genealogical Word List
 * German Genealogical Word List
 * Polish Genealogical Word List

Latin Records
These reading aids, prepared for Galicia, which was part of Austria and eventually Poland, will give you extensive help in reading Latin records. These forms were mandated by Austria, where the Catholic church was the state religion. They are typical of Catholic church records. The vocabulary will also be seen in earlier Catholic records that do no use a columnar form.
 * For detailed description and translation of a Galician Latin birth record, see Genealogy of Halychyna/Eastern Galicia, Baptismal/Birth Record.
 * For detailed description and translation of a Galician Latin marriage record, see Genealogy of Halychyna/Eastern Galicia, Marriage Record.
 * For detailed description and translation of a Galician Latin death record, see Genealogy of Halychyna/Eastern Galicia, Death Record.