It’s a small world

Last October my wife and I attended the CGSI (Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International) conference in Pittsburgh — it was awesome!  You can read more about it on the CGSI website.  Anyway, after one of the sessions I struck up a conversation with another guy in the audience, his name was also Jim.  Turns out we both have relatives from Sambron, Slovakia.  I mentioned to Jim that I had visited Sambron a couple times and I had taken photos and videos of the cemeteries.  I told him I’d look through my pictures and see if any of them have the surname of his relatives.  Well, I didn’t find any, but that’s not the end of the story.

Fast forward a few months and I’m putting together information for my grandfather Peter Marsinick’s page.  I go out to Find A Grave and find Peter’s memorial page.  I’m grabbing the source citation information and there he is, the same Jim that I happened to run into at the CGSI conference is the person who submitted the memorial for my grandfather.  I guess we were supposed to meet.

Following Jim’s urging I’ve now created memorials for my great grandparents, Peter’s parents.  These 2 memorials for my great grandparents John and Mary Marsinick are my first memorials on Find A Grave.  I’ve used the site for years as a research tool but I’ve never submitted a memorial.  I think I’ll start adding more.

My Great Grandparents

Sambron Cemetery Photos Online

I stumbled upon a site that will probably be of interest to anyone with relatives from Sambron, Slovakia.  This site has an index of the grave sites in both of Sambron’s cemeteries along with photos of them.  It’s a little difficult to figure out how to get there so I figured I’d create this “how to” post.

Start with the Sambron main website at www.sambron.sk.  Once there, click on “Geoportal” in the left sidebar.

www.sambron.sk website

Clicking on “Geoportal” brings up this CLEERIO map site of Sambron.  There are a bunch of overlays and map options you can play with but the one I want to explore here is the cemetery info.  Cemetery in Slovak is “cintorin”.  Click “Cintorin” in the left sidebar.

Click on “Cintorin” and then click on the icon of the table to bring up the list of grave sites on the right.

Once you get the index up on the right side, you can click on the “Hroby” tab to have it show the grave sites on the map.  Then, if you click on one of the rows of the index, it will show you that location on the map and also bring up the information for that grave site, along with a photo.

You can continue to click on all of the grave sites and bring up the information and photo for each.  Some don’t have any information listed when you bring them up but you can still look at the photo.  There’s also a search option if you want to try and search but the images without information won’t be found.