Essential Slovak Genealogy Research Vocabulary

Birth - narodenie, rodny, narození 
Burial - pohreb
Church - církev, kostol
Christening - krst, krstiny, 
City - mesto
County - kraj
Day - deň
Death - úmrtie 
Died - zomrel 
District - okres
Godfather - krstny otec
Marriage - sobašny, tesný zväzok 
Month - mesiac
Parents - rodičia 
Religion - vyznání, viera
Residence - bydlisko 
Son - syn
Year - rok
Daughter - dcéra 

Unlike Hungarian, the Slovak language has diacritic symbols for both vowels and consonants, controlling inflection and pronunciation. These need to be considered when looking up towns in gazetteers, or even words in dictionaries. One of the most useful Slovak dictionaries is Edward Kovac, Jr.’s The Practical English-Slovak Slovak-English Dictionary (n.p.: K. Enterprises, Inc., 1983). Many of Internet sites also contain links to on-line dictionaries and other language guides for Slovak, like this site.

Another Slovak dictionary that is helpful can be found here.