http://www.refzem.eu/ REFORM CHURCHES ZEMPLEN / SLOVOKIA translates to English on Google.
I found this site searching for historical information on Nagy Geres and Kis Geres. I found it to be a fascinating site because it has story of various village and town churches that were in Zemplen County, Hungary that are also in Slovakia now. I was able to learn that possibly a town fire may be the reason why I may not be able to get the marriage and birth records I've been periodically checking for through FamilySearch.com, Ancestry.com, etc, for a few years.
One never knows if possibly a transcription project has stalled or if the records were never filmed for microfilm or moved to databases. Possibly the records are in Hungary or Slovakia.
So let me explain that I have often been accused of "extreme genealogy," and that I have research tactics most people do not or would not even think of doing.
What I did years ago was read all the records for 200 years of a certain Catholic church, where I found a second marriage in the Catholic church and the marriages of children in the Catholic church, but no evidence of a first marriage or the grandparent's birth in the same Church.
It was convincing to me (and still is) that this was a Catholic family. But as there is also a Reform church in that town - and the records for it seem not to be available, I had to think "well MAYBE they were not baptized Catholic or married Catholic."
What I did that was extreme was keep track of who was living in certain house numbers. I learned that there probably wasn't anyone from this branch of the family living in the village before 1865. And so they were either Protestant or living elsewhere.
Living in the same dwelling are a couple with the same surname but with a 16 year age difference, which to me means that the person 16 years older is probably not the father. And due to his name and age, I would suspect he was on a 2nd marriage and was a first son in a family. So maybe an uncle? But I can't find this couple married in any records available in databases.
Now that I learned that one of the villages mentioned on a naturalization had a fire about then, I'm thinking that they moved due to that fire and the records went up in flames.
Luckily the brick wall may not have tumbled, but I have so many more lines to follow!
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