Welcome on the homepage
of a Szelestey family from the Jaák clan!
In march 2011 we joined with our homepage to the increasingly bigger group which is trying to keep and broadcast the family’s, the bigger family’s strength and cohesion. In our depersonalizing and shallowing therefore apart falling world we’re trying to transmit the strength, wisdom and faith of the elder’s not only to our own family members but to our compatriots who are susceptible to this. In this belief am I inviting our visitors to view our site and to join in on a time travel with us.
Current events
We warmly welcome to our newly-found family members live in the USA!
The picture shows Charles Szelestey's pilot card from 1941. His grandfather, Sándor his father, Nándor and his brothers Ferdinand and László crossed over the Atlantic Ocean from homeland to the land of new hope in August 1906. The family lived in Chicago for a short while before they bought a farm in Longasport (Indiana State). Ferdinand's descendants (Lorelie Szelestey) have been in contact for a few years now. In 2004, we wrote letters with Pál Dénes Szelestey's wife, Ilona Bendy. They left after the II. World War. Since then, unfortunately, the relationship has broken with both family branches and the pictures we have been waiting for are not coming to us. We hope that they all in good health!His vocation hungarian, his job guardian of the past
The reason behind the creation of this site and my personal confession
Period newscast about the 700 year old church
The respect and honor of the ancestors can never fade, we have to preserve and protect it, as the prehistoric man protected and preserved the fire. In this spirit with our slight strength, we the current descendants of the Jaák’s, are trying to hold a torch against the all-consuming darkness of the ever fading past.
Attila Szelestey P.
I would like to ask my fellow researchers to help me create a joint heraldic archive. The emblems are collected in the Family coat-of-arms subsite and can be sent to the e-mail address. The archive can be freely used. Our goal is to make the dormant, drawer lurking family symbols again part of the public domain and part of our culture.