Now before some of you get all foaming at the mouth, I know that Lengyel and Orosz and so on are Hungarian names, like Szabo and Takacs and Kovacs (although both the latter are Slav too).

Let us remember that most of Carpathians Rus' that is now modern Slovakia (for the most part) was dominated by Hungarian (Magyar) rule for around 1000 years. Just another twist in road.

Svjatyj Moisei Uhryn, moli Boha o nas!

Someone run with Uhryn/Uhrin please!

Bob, sorry, I meant to use instead of :p . For some reason I end with :p instead of and I and sometimes this computer makes me

Very interesting thread, guys. I am really enjoying it.

"You will be (ethnically)assimilated, resistance is futile!"

Just a little Star Trek Voyager humor!

Ung-Certez

Well, for what its worth, this past Sunday when I attended church at St. Nicholas parish in Roebling, New Jersey, I enquired as to what ethnicity the parishioners claimed. According to them, they are Slovaks, pure and simple. In fact, one woman I talked to had, by her expression at my mention of the name Ruthenian, never even heard of it before.

Now this comes as quite a suprise to me since I was always under the impression that the parish was primarly made up of Maygarized Rusins. But I guess that they are, in fact, Slovakized Rusins (If indeed Rusins at all). But who are we to tell someone what ethnicity to classify themselves as? If these people were Ruthenians/Ukrainians who, by living in Slovakia, became Slovakized then why should we dispute it? Do we tell Irish Americans, or Polish Canadians, or German Argentines, that they must think of themselves as part of a culture whos only link they have to is blood?

That would seem rather silly if you ask me.

BTW, St. Nicholas has just concluded its annual ethnic picnic this past Sunday which was a real treat for all who attended. Was anyone on this forum there?

Robert K.