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The FamilySearch Research Wiki (formerly also known as the FamilySearch Wiki or the Family History Research Wiki) is a website containing reference information and educational articles to help locate and interpret genealogical records. [1] [2] The wiki is part of the FamilySearch website and was launched in 2007.
FamilySearch Indexing is a volunteer project established and run by FamilySearch, a genealogy organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.The project aims to create searchable digital indexes of scanned images of historical documents that are relevant to genealogy.
FamilySearch stores copies of their records in a dry, environment-controlled facility built into Granite Mountain in Little Cottonwood Canyon, near Salt Lake City, Utah. The storage facility is known as the Granite Mountain Records Vault. The vault stores over 2.4 million rolls of microfilm and 1 million microfiches.
The Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia (in Slovak Evanjelická cirkev augsburského vyznania na Slovensku, ECAV) is the only Lutheran church in Slovakia. The Church is a member of the Ecumenical Council of Churches in Slovakia, [ 2 ] and the Lutheran World Federation (Central Eastern Europe Region).
One of the many synagogues in Slovakia: the Vrbove synagogue (built in 1883) This list of synagogues in Slovakia contains active, otherwise used and destroyed synagogues in Slovakia. The list of Slovakian synagogues is not necessarily complete, as only a negligible number of sources testify to the existence of some synagogues.
St. Martin's Cathedral, Bratislava. The Catholic Church in Slovakia is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.. According to the 2021 census, around 55.8% [1] [2] of the total population was Latin (Roman) Catholic and another 3.8% is Greek Catholic.
The records for genealogical research are available at the state archive "Statny Archiv in Presov, Slovakia" Roman Catholic church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1772–1895 (parish A) Greek Catholic church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1834–1895 (parish B)
The church had 85,000 members and 204 parishes and 103 congregations and 54 mission churches in 2011 a decrease of 25,000 since 2021, mostly in southern Slovakia among Hungarians. [3] In 2011, the Church had about 110,000 members.