My grandmother was born in Pritulani Posta Nizna Olka, Czechoslovakia. Does it still exist?

Question

She was born on June 5, 1891. Is there a way to see pictures of the area? How do you obtain birth certificates?

Answer 1

Nižná Oľka (today: Oľka), where the nearest post office to your Grandmother's birthplace was, is in today's eastern Slovakia, in the historic administrative county (comitatus) of Zemplín (Hungarian: Zemplén, German: Semplin, Latin: Zemplinum), today the district of Medzilaborce, Presov, Slovakia:
http://www.fallingrain.com/world/LO/0/Nizna_Olka.html
http://www.worldcitydb.com/nizna_ol'ka_1258314.html
Until 1918, Slovakia belonged to the Hungarian half of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, in the former district of Humenne, and the Hungarian name was Homonna(olyka) / Sztropkoolyka. It seems to have been an ethnic Rusyn village, see
http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/films2.htm

Here's an old Hungarian map (very detailed) of the comitatus Zemplén:
http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/maps/1910/zemplen.jpg
I can't find any place name near Homonna that looks like Hungarian for Pritulani on it, though.
The 1869 census of the district of Mezolaborcz (Hungarian for the present Medzilaborce) is available online:
http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/1869txt.htm

Those guys who did the Carpatho-Rusyn knowledge base seem to be very savvy with genealogy:
http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/

Then, there's a website dedicated to Slovakia that has the placename Pritulany, situated at 49'00"N 21'00"E .
http://www.iarelative.com/p.htm

There's even a Wikipedia page on Prituľany:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prituľany

and finally here I found a map with both Pritul'any and Ol'ka marked on it:
http://www.sazp.sk/mikroregiony/mikro/po/1150.htm

There you go. Happy searching

Answer 2

Hey Susan,

Here are some sites to help with Vital Records. I am sure it still exists, but maybe under a different name. Researching the vital records is another topic than researching the Pictures.