Hažlín is a

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and

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Bardejov District Bardejov District () is a district in the Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the s ...

in the

Prešov Region The Prešov Region (, ; ), also Priashiv Region (, ), is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions and consists of 13 districts (okresy) and 666 municipalities, 23 of which have town status. The region was established in 1996 and is the mos ...

of north-east

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History

In historical records the

was first mentioned in 1414.

Geography

The

lies at an

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of 270 metres and covers an

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of 20.093 km². It has a

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of about 1185 people.

Genealogical resources and facts

The records for genealogical research are available at the state archive "Statny Archiv in Presov, Slovakia" * Roman Catholic church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1750-1896 (parish A) * Greek Catholic church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1852-1924 (parish B) The surname "Hažlínsky" and its variants—e.g., "Haszlinsky" (a Magyar variant)—denote one with roots in Hažlín. According to

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, the surname first appeare
in the 1700s
in

Gaboltov Gaboltov (, ) is a village and municipality in Bardejov District in the Prešov Region of north-east Slovakia. History In historical records, the village was first mentioned in 1247. Geography The municipality lies at an altitude of 421 metres a ...

and not Hažlín. Incidentally, this also makes likely that

Mickey Haslin Michael Joseph "Mickey" Haslin (October 25, 1909 – March 7, 2002), born Michael Joseph Hazlinsky, was a Jewish-Austrian American professional baseball player whose career spanned 13 seasons, six of which were spent in Major League Baseball (MLB ...

(né "Hazlinsky")'s father, George Hazlinsky, was solely

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and not Jewish because of both parents (This is important to note because George Hazlinsky and his brothers were maternal siblings of a Katherine Ushinsky Gajdos, née Uszinskyovà; and she was Jewish through both her own paternal line and her and George's maternal line, that of Zsuzsanna "Anna" Jaszová Haszlinskyová Uszinskyová (Among Anna's other children wer
Katherine's point of contact
at

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, Marion Hazlinski (later Martin Hazlinsky); and Katherine truthfully gave his name, whereas she gave "Maria Uscianski" in order to conceal her

heritage.Great-granddaughter of Michael Gaydos (1901-1977), a son of Katherine Ushinsky Gaydos (b. 1872-1874, d. 1944). According to one of his grandsons, he would claim that he was Russian only because he worked in the Russian Orthodox Church. The grandson's claim, which he stated that he used to dismiss his grandfather's claim, proved to be a lie.). One of Michael's brother's obituaries also lists their mother's maiden name as "Ushinsky", which should have been Americanized to "Uszinsky" from Magyar. The "Ushinsky" Americanization, however, was deliberate.)

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of living people in Hazlin
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History

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Genealogical resources and facts

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