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How to read the 1869 Slovak Census

Headers are in Hungarian then Slovak, translated below.

Column 0 & Column 1

Column 0 & Column 1

Column 0 & Column 1

0. Ordinal for the residence.

 1. Ordinal for the person per residence. 

Column 2

Column 0 & Column 1

Column 0 & Column 1

2. Surname and first name name, title and status of the occupants  


The following are to be introduced in line: the head of the family (household); his wife; children, grandchildren, etc. age of relatives participating in the butler or other, although payment individuals residing there; family present only temporarily members, relatives or friends to (guests); servants, employees and assistants (de- groom, butler), if he lives at the house to; subtenants, all add- with their belongings; room storage, bedside tables, etc. 


Answers: Zellar=Head; jeho zena=his wife; syn=son; dcera=daughter; matka=mother; pohospadnik=housekeeper; komornica=Matron; Krcmar=Innkeeper; gazda=landlord; 

Column 3 & Column 4

Column 0 & Column 1

Column 3 & Column 4

3. The gender of the person, with the right column as male and the left column as female.


4. Year of Birth

Column 5

Column 5

Column 3 & Column 4

5. Religion 


That is, whether it is patrician: Roman-, Greek- Armenian-Catholic; Greece, Armenia early-eastern church; of the reformed, Augsburg evangelical faith knowledge; Unitarian, other Christian; Israel. or other non-Christian religion


Answers: r.k.= Rimsko Katolicky (Roman Catholic); g.k.= Greco Katolicky (Greek Cath.); Israel = Jewish

Column 6

Column 5

Column 6

6. Family Status


 That is, whether the relevant person is single, married or widowed. or found in a state of farewell? 


Answers: 

samotny=single

udovna=widow 

zenaty=married 



Column 7

Column 5

Column 6

7. Profession


 Namely: office, earnings, or industry; with officials, whether it is for ex. state, metropolitan, municipal, or official? The field of industry and earnings is to be determined or interpreted; when a woman or a person of age of 14 has a special occupation, this must also be given; when someone has no trade let it be explained whether he lives from his own money or from alms. For persons under 14 years of age, this column may remain unfilled, if they are not employed in farming, manufacturing, or trades and unemployed. 


Answers: 

nadenik=day laborer

opalcar=tanner

pastyr=shepherd

rolnik=peasant; 

Stolar=carpenter

Column 8

Column 10-13

Column 8

8. Employment Situation


 Work or service conditions of the partitioned person; in this column, it is necessary to explain whether the relevant person acts independently as an entrepreneur or as an assistant in the indicated employment? whether as an owner, lessee, for an annual, or monthly, or daily salary, he works at a farm, in a factory, etc. d? is he a master, a journeyman, or an apprentice to a doctor of trade? is he the owner, the assistant, the scribe of the books or the apprentice at the doctor's shop? is he in housekeeping service?  


Answers: 

majitel=owner

ziak=student

Column 9

Column 10-13

Column 8

9. Birthplace


  state, country, district headquarters, countryside, the city, municipality 


Answers: 

Town names of this year are often the old Hungarian name.  See the town database in the family library for answers. 

Column 10-13

Column 10-13

Column 10-13

10. Homeland. Foreigner (left) or Local (right)


11.  Presence.  Temporary (left) or more permanent (right)


12. Transience. Temporary (left) or more permanent (right)


13. Literacy.  Can he/she read (left) and write (right).  Answers: zna=knows

Column

Column

Column 10-13

14. Notes


14.  should be noted whether the person concerned is blind, or deaf and dumb, mentally defective, stupid; go ahead whether belonging to the regular army, national defense, discharged, invalids, reservists, or alleged reservists belongs; Whose retired soldier is he? for these, discharged and reservists, should it be explained whether it belongs to officers, non-commissioned officers, or ordinary m soldiers? with strangers The country where they are established should be explained, in the case of remote ones, except for those located near the army, the capital and village should be explained, if it belongs in the country, or the country, if it is in a foreign country.


Answers: Vojak=Soldier

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