Who are the Katonaks? Katonaks are men and women, girls and boys, mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, great-grandmothers, nephews and nieces, aunts and uncles, mostly related by birth and association to a family -- All those descended from a common ancestor of a tiny mountain village in Eastern Slovakia, now after 700 years called Gemerskej Polony (aka Mala Poloma).
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Katonak Family Photos Flickr Group
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
David Katonak Visits Slovakia
My dad told me he wanted to hear about my trip to Slovakia. Do you have specific questions? We had a great trip. We visited Bratislava, Kosice and of course Gemerska Poloma. We first met Jana Katonakova in Bratislava and got to spend a day or two with her. She met us at the train station, we arrived via Vienna. Then we met Ina Oracova, her Dad was a Katonak (he'd passed a couple years earlier). Ina travelled with us all over the country, from Bratislava to Gemerska Poloma. There we met her brother Vlado, and we stayed with another Katonak, Vlado for a few days. We traveled around the area with Ina translating and her brother driving, to Spissky castle, an ice cave, the Tatras, and to Roznava. We also took a bus with Ina to Kosice and met Lubo's brother, Jan Katonak and wife and son. Really a great experience.




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