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<\/a><\/p>\nOn a recent trip to Slovakia, my cousins and I visited the Slovakian state archives in\u00a0Byt\u010da<\/a>, one of 7\u00a0regional archives<\/a> in the country. \u00a0Their paper documents are generally for researching the nobility and other things not relevant to Jewish history. \u00a0The main records are on microfilm. \u00a0They have a book listing their microfilm holdings, mostly sorted by place name (they also have listings by person’s name, with no obvious Jewish entries, and by subject, which might have topics of interest).<\/p>\n Each place name entry gave the religion of the records, as they are generally recorded by the local place of worship. \u00a0\u017did means Jewish and there are a lot of them. \u00a0There are also records without any religion mentioned. \u00a0I don’t yet know if these are civil records (which could include Jewish residents) or non-vital record information on the given town. \u00a0A few of the towns with no religion mentioned records do not have religiously-based records, but most have both.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Below are the Jewish (\u017did) entries, organized by place name, the same order as in the book. \u00a0I’ve also sorted them by microfilm number<\/a> (given as a small group of films) in a separate post. \u00a0In many cases, the same location is represented in more than one set of microfilms. \u00a0I put those as separate entries, listed as such under Notes.<\/p>\n There are 129 microfilms of Jewish records.<\/p>\n If you’d like my original Excel document, it is below. \u00a0Note the two sheets inside it, one for sorting by place name, one for sorting by microfilm number.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n