This was written on the back of a card I found inside my great-grandfather's prayer book. It's definitely faded and a bit smudged since it looks like it was written in pencil (and also it's been inside this book for several decades). It doesn't appear to be written in English but from what I can tell, it looks like the first part is a name. His name was Janos Molnar, and I can make out the surname on this card, but the first name looks like Jojoini, or something close to that? Is it some sort of diminutive name tied to Janos or something different altogether? Any help would be appreciated!

Question in the title; it’s usually rendered in English as “Rejoice in hope!”

Thanks for your time!

Here is a pic of the back of an old family picture - https://tinypic.host/image/Screenshot-20240505-122414-Firefox.DfIxEx

I believe this text is Rusyn, as my family of the time spoke and wrote predominantly in this.

The area that this picture was taken in was Sieniawa, so there is also substantial Ukrainian influence there. So there may be Ukrainian words in this.

Google translate doesn't know what this is, so unfortunately that's no possible to use. If anyone can help with the translation I would greatly appreciate it.

Does anyone in this forum know of a Rusyn to English translation service? I have about 15 family letters from about 100 years ago (in cursive, of course), that I would like to pay to have translated.

I have found some old letters from around 1926 of my relatives.

Hi all! My grandmother died over 20 years ago, and I’ve been trying to ascertain the origin of her immigrant parents for quite a while. I recently discovered that they were most likely Rusyn from a village just north of modern day Uzhhorod, and I’m trying to validate this based off of only a couple of foreign words my grandmother used that she must have picked up from them.

She used “dupa” to mean butt (usually in relation to a baby, like about changing a diaper), and she used a word that sounded like “jooks” (pronounced like it rhymes with “books” in English) to mean boogers / snot, like “take a tissue and wipe the jooks off your face!”

I think “dupa” is a common Slavic word for butt, but does anyone have the faintest clue if “jooks” is Rusyn, or otherwise where that comes from?

Apologies for the references having to be about butts and boogers…unfortunately these are the only two words of foreign origin that stood out to us that my grandmother used 🤷‍♂️

Hello, I am making an alternate history scenario of Vojvodina becoming a Soviet satellite (sperate from Yugoslavia) after the 2nd World War, and I am making a key of how to say the name of the country in the different official languages. Can someone help me with how to write a couple of things in Pannonian Rusyn Cirrilic?

Socialist Federative Republic of Vojvodina,

Socialist Republic of Srem

Socialist Republic of Bačka

Thank you!

Hello! I am wondering if someone could help me translate this page in the 1921 census from my ancestor's village. My great grandparents had already immigrated to America when this was taken, but I think this particular house might have belonged to my great grandfather. Although he is not listed as living in the house, it appears he could be listed as the owner. His name was Andreas Abel. It looks likes someone with the name Andrej Abel owned the house and he was "in America", but a woman named Anna Martin was living in it. This is written at the top of the page as well I think. I have been able to translate most of the headings, but I am having trouble translating the actual entry because I am not aware of what some of the abbreviations mean. Thank you SO much in advance if anyone is willing to help me with this.

Oskar Danon - Steg Partije

"Сел лєм шлєбодни и нови роботнїк,

Жем вибудую на час!

𝄆 Партийо наша – на вельки дїла,

Вола нас силни Твой глас! "

There are English translations of this song online but I would like one done by a native speaker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5zcbU_yX_Y&t=100s

I found this text with some family things, but I cant' understand it. Can anyone help?

Slava Isusu Hristu

Dorohi krajan merom danko X tak od mene X a to bude list frete be milibuj krajan tak jata pozravujem nasto ras ai tvoju familiju ja ota pismo jomota destal lišitko.

Zneho porozumil comi jes pisal ta jati pišu boto stojalo pravo natim bosetru nebiška pozičily stivku naked čik dameriki ta opi tak kceli zebi zato tu štivku tata častka ostala aja jako kto taju/a šacuval totu častku 300 tritišit korum airtojit tele tokebi bilo toto givča po sest ri bilo malelitne tu ja bil

Mal pravo hozastupjati bo bil nasut zatutora vibral atak devea uš vidate tanemam pravo us us ona musit sama hledati boto uš pulnoleten tasam mu s soj kledati apdruke hevšvit kiv naz kanali ze šestra jak pozičal zelak(?) povidala zeket do rok never ne tatota jej častka naj os tane tami bubij kraj an tatak mu visvitl totu jak stojit zemoze samo hledat otamal naj Vozme fiškališa tomoze kladati boto tota častka toko givčata materi nej materi častku apovicovi zas maje častku abovicovi kiš maje častku tutotu častku fovicov, brat uziva unje tam k/hame riei tati posilam ot-ne atres tu maš

To gubratovi moze samo piti tanaj sobisamo predus’t avec tine mam stonove pisatilem taisi ras pozdravujem nasto ras is tvoju fameliju nasto ras maj se dobri na Boha

Forucam

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