Czechoslovak Genealogy Sites on the Internet

XIII. Language

A. General Resources
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1. General

Dictionaries, Glossaries and Translators
http://www.tip.net.au/~dnum/dict.htm

2. Czech Language

Bohemica.com - All about Czech Language and Culture
http://www.bohemica.com/

FCFLRC Czech Language Resources
http://www.genea.cz/vojenstvi/pluky.htm

History of Czech Language
http://humanities.byu.edu/classes/ling450ch/reports/czech.html

Languages-on-the-Web: Best Czech Links
http://www.languages-on-the-web.com/links/link-czech.htm

3. Slovak Language

Slovak Language
http://www.slovak.com/language/index.html

Slovak Language Resources
http://slovakia.eunet.sk/slovakia/culture-religion-media/textbook.txt

4. Ruthenian Language

Rusyn Language Publication List
http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/crrc/rlpubs.htm

New Slavic Language is Born
- the Rusyn Literary Language in Slovakia - Book
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0880333316/...

Let's Speak Rusyn - Book
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0917242009/...

5. Hungarian Language

B. Alphabet, Script & Handwriting
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1. General Tutorials for Reading

Old German, French and English Handwriting, Naming systems http://www.disknet.com/indiana_biolab/eg502.htm

2. Czech

Czech and Slovak Encoding Mess Explained
http://www-kiv.zcu.cz/~luki/cs/cs-encodings-faq.html

Czech and Slovak Fonts and Keyboards
http://www.bsp-software.com/html/fonts.htm

Creating Documents in Czech Language Using Windows
http://home.att.net/~fjpworld/CzDocs6H.html

Czech and Slovak Letter Writing Guide
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/...

Czech Fonts for WWW
http://www.muselik.com/czech/fonts.html

Czech Surnames, Handwriting and Spelling Changes in the Czech Archives http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/2064/czechgen.htm#tips

Moravia Translations: The Alphabet
http://www.mtranslations.cz/cz-chset.htm

2. Slovak

Slovak Alphabet
http://www.whizkidtech.net/ISO-8859-2/sk.html

Czech and Slovak Fonts and Keyboards
http://www.bsp-software.com/html/fonts.htm

3. German

German Script Tutorial ( Moravian Archival examples)
http://www.mun.ca/rels/Tutorial: withmorav/script.html

Old German Handwritten Scripts
http://www2.genealogy.net/gene/misc/scripts.html

C. Symbols and Abbreviations
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Genealogical Symbols and Abbreviations
http://www2.genealogy.net/gene/misc/gensig.html

D. Names
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Czech Surnames - Their Origin (in Czech)
http://www.angelfire.com/hi/ttyl/prijmeni.html

English Equivalents of Czech, German, Hungarian and Polish Given Names
http://www.rootsweb.com/~scoconee/foreign_names.txt

Origin and Distribution of Czech Surnames
http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/durer/23/var/czsurnames.html

Some Tips on Czech Surnames, Handwriting and Spelling Changes in the Czech Archives
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/2064/czechgen.htm#tips

Slovak Names - Directory of Slovak and Non-Slovak Names in Slovakia
http://www.slovak.org/name/

Carpatho-Rusyn Given Names
http://www.rusyn.com/crgiven.htm

E. Dictionaries
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1. Central & Eastern European Languages Dictionaries.

Sites with Dictionaries for Translation
and Letter Writing in Eastern European Languages
http://216.147.92.96/poland/Dictionaries

Links to Foreign Language Dictionaries
http://www-math.uni-paderborn.de/dictionaries/Dictionaries.html

Moravia Translation Dictionary
http://www.mtranslations.cz/dict.htm

2. Czech

Basic Genealogical Vocabulary - English-German-Czech
http://w3g.med.uni-giessen.de/gene/reg/SUD/dictionary.html

Czech Genealogical Word List
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/...

Dictionaries from or into Czech Language
http://www.cvut.cz/cp852/world/dictionary.html

OnLine English-Czech Dictionary
http://www.wordbook.cz/dictionary.html

English-Czech Dictionary - German-Czech Dictionary
http://ww2.fce.vutbr.cz/bin/ecd

3. Slovak

Slovakian to/from English & German Translator
http://premium.isternet.sk/slovnik/default.asp

Small English-Slovak Dictionary
http://slovakia.eunet.sk/slovakia/.dict/tourdict.html

4. Ruthenian

Rusyn Dictionaries and Other Rusyn Language Publications
http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/crrc/rlpubs.htm

5. Hungarian

Hungarian Genealogical Word List
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/...

OnLine English-Hungarian & Hungarian-English Dictionary
http://feefhs.org/slovak/skdb1/slrpi.html

F. Translation Services
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1. Central and Eastern European Languages

FEEFHS Database of Professional Translators
Specializing in East European Genealogy
http://feefhs.org/frg/frg-pt.html

Translators and Translation Agencies
http://www.ole-net.com/languages/english/translators/

2. Czech & Slovak Czech and Slovak Translation and Interpretation
http://engine123.com/eng_1/trans.html

Slovak and Czech Translating Services
http://members.aol.com/Mpgregor/private/homepage.htm

Slovak Translation Services
http://www.dholmes.com/janatran.html

Verbatoria Consulting: Slovak Information and Translation Services
http://www.verbatoria.com/