Tape Index and Notes
  Original from 18 Dec 2010
  Updated in 2012
  Updated in Dec 2014 with Suzanne Mimms submission

Tapes 1-21 from Bob Kastelic's house in 2011; much reprocessing to restore
Tapes 22-23 from Lilian Aubert in 2012
Tapes 24-26 from Suzanne Mimm's in 2013

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Tape 1 - Side 1  (Very Good)  28min0sec  PICNIC, NANA'S HOUSE EUROPE
     (Kastelic Family interest; 1972)
  Messages to Teta Fanni (first 1min45)
    - Tonka Kastelic (Slovenian)
    - ???  (Slovenian; English)
    - Joanne (repeating Slovenian statements from Louis Kastelic Sr?)
  Button Box playing (1min45 to 16min15)
    - @1min45 button box alone 
    - @2min13 kids join in 
    - @3min54 adults singing alone (Louis Sr, Bob, ...)
    - @5min24 adults and button (Bob, ...)
        (abrupt cutoff for 5 secs at 15min exactly)
  Europe Trip 1972 (16min15 to 28min)
    - @16min15 21 June 1972 -- on plane Cleveland tp Lb
    - @17min30 25 June 1972 description of caves 
    - @18min20 kids singing again (break for 10secs in middle with kids
            fooling with recorder)
    - @24min05 singing happy birthday to "daddy"
    - @24min30 slovenian speech; short
    - @24min40 singing happy birthday to Teta Bernie
    - @25min05 kids fooling with recording machine (boy talking to Lisa)

    - @25min35 Church bells with slovenian voices in background
    - @26min38 in church; slovenian choir and organ; Mass
       (abrupt cutoff at 28min)

++++++&&&&&++++++  Of interest to others?  Combine with bit from other side
Tape 1 - Side 2  (good)  31min27sec MORE AT SENTJERNEJ (1972)
  Europe Trip 1972 (cont)
    - continues with Mass in Church (Sentjernej?) till tape runs out at 31:27
           (end of mass?)
++++++&&&&&++++++

Tape 2 - Side 1 (excellent)  30min36sec  PRI FARNI CERKVICI,  LILA AUBERT
  PRE-RECORDED MATERIAL?
  Immediate start into slovenian choir; very clear; almost sounds like
   recording of 33rpm due to repetitive click in some spots and blanks
   between tracks -- and thus could explain the clear recording
   (30:36 long; abrupt cutoff)

Tape 2 - Side 2 (very good)  28min4sec   PRI FARNI CERKVICI,  LILA AUBERT
  PRE-RECORDED MATERIAL?
  Continuation from Side 1 in quality and style
  @5min40 new recording?  More static (pops); warble and other recording 
   decay issues

++++++&&&&&++++++ Lila translate
Tape 3 - Side 1 only (poor) 7min44sec  STRIC KAREL re: TETA BAN
  Poor recording due to noise in background -- button box music playing in
    background, airplanes taking off (Lila's back porch / yard?)
  Karel and Mila giving history in Slovenian; Lila can likely translate
++++++&&&&&++++++

Tape 3 - Side 2 verified blank  BLANK LABEL

Tape 4 - Side 1 only (good to poor)  16min0sec MATENJA VAS, SENTJERNEJ 1970
   (Kastelic family interest)
  1970: Button Box and singing (warble); some talking in background
  @2min39 Tonka birthday wish for Bernie (and says celebrating Bob's); 
    Bernie is 41; Teta Fanni offers wish
    Continues with Button Box and singing
  @3min50 Teta Fanni chimes in?
  @5min15 changes to two talking
  @5min50 abrupt change to button box playing (warble)
  @11min23 Happy Birthday to Betty Ann (10 July or 14 July); 
    Jack to Butch; Happy Birthday to Louis on 10th
  @12min15 back to button box playing (possibly recording being played for tape)
  @13min42 button box but different sounding (different time?; live 
     and not recording?)
  abrupt end

Tape 4 - Side 2 verified blank  BLANK LABEL

Tape 5 - Side 1 only (very poor; useless)  29min47sec  PICNIC
   Starts with mostly static white noise but can faintly hear children 
     singing in background
   @1min36 Adults start singing -- similar, very faint with mostly white
     noise
   Poor Copy of Tape 1 Side 1 based on label?

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Tape 5 - Side 2 (poor)   length?  MASS, SENTJERNEJ
  (label not blank; but not digitized by AtoZAudio either?)
  Starts xx min into tape; Church organ and choir; Mass; Homily;  Different?
     maybe 1970?
  lots of warble, tape transport noise; foreground noise by microphone
     holder fairly loud; voice faint
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Tape 6 - Side 1 (poor)  25min24sec  PICNIC
   Poor copy of Tape 1 Side 1; warble; etc; also seems to be missing start
     and end
   Slightly out of order as well; Digitization problem?

Tape 6 - Side 2 (poor) 29min39sec   MASS, SENTJERNEJ 1972
   Exact copy of Tape 1 Side 2 except cuts off a few minutes earlier

Tape 7 - Side 1 only  (good)  9min17sec   ATA 6-23-80
   23 June 1980  Ata (Louis Kastelic Sr) button box playing / fooling

Tape 7 - Side 2 verified blank  BLANK LABEL

Tape 8 - Side 1 only (very good) 5min28sec   MARCH ATA  8-1-81
  Ata Whistling 8-1-81
  @1min28 same song on button box
  @2min10 false restarts
  @2min40 button box start into Dr Zhivago theme song

Tape 8 - Side 2 verified blank  BLANK LABEL

Tape 9 - Side 1 (good) 30min12sec  MRS STAVEC & MA 7-31-81
 Starts of with background talking; Tonka clear and guess Mrs Stavec; 
   regular background noise of either machine like clothes washer or 
   possibly tape recorder itself
 @1min18sec come to foreground but still seems random talking; not formal Q&A
 @5min women leave; background of men still
 @6min or so, women start returning but still no formal Q&A
 @9min starts to become better for Q&A; really starts around @10min
 @12min30sec to @14min45sec tape machine left running but everyone
   left the room! This way till end

Tape 9 - Side 2 (good) 30min11sec MRS STAVEC & MA 7-31-81
 Immediately starts with button box playing for about 5 min
 @5min18sec Mrs Stavec continues from side 1?  Tonka there. others. till end

Tape 10 - Side 1 (good) 30min36sec PLANINA, ATA'S WAKE 8-19-81
 Starts with background noise of people talking, child crying  [Church Service]
 @0min30sec begin to hear some slovenian prayer faintly in background
    (foreground coughs, rustling near tape machine)
 @2min40sec begin rosary (english); followed by recorded? music (Ava Marija)
 @10min begins to sound like in church; service there
 @12min organ plays Amazing Grace with congregation singing
 @22min40sec starts homily; till abrupt end at 30min13sec

Tape 10 - Side 2 (good) 28min04sec BLANK LABEL
 Continues with homily from side 1
 @8min03sec organ starts .. (gifts?)
 @8min30sec Slovenian hymn (familiar but name unknown)
 ...
 @24min20sec english hymn - how great though art; abrupt cutoff
 
Tape 11 - Side 1 (poor) 30min29sec CHRISTMAS 1980 ATA, LOU, BOBBY, 
    DAN KOSAK, ZABAVA
 Recording of distant or pre-recorded accordian (muffled sounding); some 
   hiss and noise, glasses clinking
 @1min45sec restart of recorder after last song finished; new song
 @4min20sec singers join in for Silent Night, Holy Night
    singing continues with other songs
 @21min10seconds or so of re-recorded over (TV in background)
 @22min30sec women slovenian singers faint in background; till end

Tape 11 - Side 2 (poor)  30min25sec SLOVENE CLASS, PLANINA HARMONIKA 12-14/16-81
 Continues with women singers from first side; mixed singers later; 
    Christmas songs
 @11min20sec Bob narrates what was on the tape earlier (part1, part2, part3)
 @13min40sec Accordian starts up (GOOD recording) till end (abrupt cut)

Tape 12 - Side 1 only (poor to good) 30min14sec UNIDENTIFIED: MA, MRS LEGAN,
   BETTY, PAT LEGAN?, MR LEGAN; at FT MEYERS, FL  WINTER 1981-1982
 Talking about recent events (english) -- Randy giving instructions about 
    Microphone at start!
 Dan Kosak is there; talk of Stan; general conversation among guests; 
    Eddo came Christmas eve; coffee/tea served; Who is main lady talking 
    the most?  Franca Legan's daughter Anne or daughter in law?  Tonka's?
 No specific conversation; just open mike during casual visit
 @14min22sec stopped tape to listen to it; when restarts more of the same
 Hear Lilian Aubert (or is it her mother Mila?); who is man (son of ??)
    talking about Cleveland

Tape 12 - Side 2 () verified blank BLANK LABEL

Tape 13 - Side 1 Only (good) 10min6sec LOU & BETTS 25TH ANNIV 8-29-82
 Starts with Accordian playing; some warbleat 2min30sec; Dan Kosak there

Tape 13 - Side 2 () verified blank BLANK LABEL

Tape 14 - Side 1 Only (poor to good) 30min34sec MILEY STAVEC 2-20-1983
 Starts with Accordian playing; some warble; seems to clear up; 12 songs

Tape 14 - Side 2 () verified blank BLANK LABEL

Tape 15 - Side 1 (good) 26min41sec MAPLE HEIGHTS BUTTON BOX 3-5-83
 Starts right into Button Box playing; slight distance away.  
   Band and dance hall (drums, etc)? 
 Seems like recording stopped between songs even

Tape 15 - Side 2 (poor to good) 22min11sec LOSTOSKI HOUSE
 Marge and Ed's 25th Wedding Anniversary in Cleveland or Potomac maybe?
 Group singing to start (slovenian) - Dan Kosak, Marge?
 @2min01sec singing to button box (Dan Kosak, Lou Kastelic Sr?)
 @13min20sec (smaller) group singing (in English)
 Tape recorder machine noise; Randy there again as is his sister Beth; 
   Betty Ann saying goodnight

Tape 16 - Side 1 only (poor) 47min28sec JORDAN  NOV 1989
 Background talking; piano; choir starts in distance; close in clearing of 
   throat; theatre play as english dialog then audience laugh?
 @4min40sec Cast singing song in Slovenian (audience clap at end)
 @7min10sec seems to end; audience mulling; button box with baritone
 @9min45sec back to dialog after audience clap
 continues to end with abrupt cutoff
 Recording is poor due to the distance and softness of what was meant to 
   be recorded.  Recording tape itself is OK.

Tape 16 - Side 2 () verified blank?  BLANK LABEL

Tape 17 - Side 1 (excellent) 44min34sec FRANCA JORDAN LEGAN with 
   JOSEPH LEGAN (cookie) [No Joseph Legan Sr]
 Legan kids interviewing their mother in English
 So much information that reconfirms documents and other sources including
   her own trip over
 
Tape 17 - Side 2 (excellent) 44min30sec   FRANCA JORDAN LEGAN (continued)
 Continues story from first side; abrupt cutoff just as she starts to talk
   of Betty

(Note: Tape 17 is forst 90 min of 180 min interview that Legan's supplied in
 full.  See Suzanne Mimm's submission on tapes 24-26 for full interview.)

Tape 18 - Side 1 () 45min52sec BLANK LABEL [FRANCIS LEGAN TOMSIC JAN 1986]
 Interview by Bob Kastelic

Tape 18 - Side 2 (excellent) 45min50sec FRANCIS LEGAN TOMSIC JAN 1986
 Interview by Bob Kastelic continued (abrupt cutoff)

Tape 19 - Side 1 (excellent) 46min14sec FRANK MIAZ HIS (MAPLE HEIGHTS)
    HISTORY 1-24-86
 Interview by Bob Kastelic; history of Maple Heights (early)
 Arrived in Jul 1913 when he was 6 years old to what is now Maple Heights; 
   1915 became part of Village of Maple Heights

Tape 19 - Side 2 (excellent) 46min15sec FRANK MIAZ HIS (MAPLE HEIGHTS) 
    HISTORY 1-24-86
 Interview by Bob Kastelic continued

Tape 20 - Side 1 (good) 28min03sec  D. KOSAK FLA 1980
 Starts off with whistling (Louis Kastelic?) (excellent) 
     (likely recorded over previous material on tape)
 @1min52sec cuts into button box playing and singing in hall; warble; hall echo
 @3min45sec cuts to women singing Slovenian song in hall; maybe Bob joining
    also and nearer microphone (same conditions)
 @11min17sec cuts to new accordian playing in smaller room; microphone 
    closer to action; cleaner recording [Suspect this is Dave Kosak playing]
    Louis congrats him in background at end of song; 
    Lilian Aubert and Dan Kosak also?
 @19min30sec Bob and ?? accompany button box as singers (garbelled tape)

Tape 20 - Side 2 (good) 25min19sec BLANK LABEL
 Starts with Bob singing?
 @0min40sec singing stops and accordian seems to mimic song?
 @2min17sec back to hall with button box (poorer recording)
 @17min some interference with microphone; sound muffles to almost nothing
    (mic gets covered?)
 @23min38sec all of a sudden restores; for one more song ...

Tape 21 - Side 1 (excellent) 30min11sec STRIC KAREL ROSARY 8-20-81
 Uncle Karel providing prayers in Slovenian (Rosary?)
 @14min42sec Mila starts speaking; tape restarts; Karel softly in 
    background with Tonka closer
 @15min30sec improves with Karel closer to Microphone (all Slovenian)
 @20min40sec Bob asks question (abrupt cut)

Tape 21 - Side 2 (excellent) 30min11sec STRIC KAREL 8-22-81
 Interview continues (much louder with Karel)

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Tape 22 - Side 1 (very poor mostly) 30min26sec KAREL / MILA JORDAN 7-6-85
    [from lilian]
 Singing in Slovenian (Mila, ?) -- very loud static; little better in 
   right channel [CUT OUT FIRST 23 min]
 @23min40sec abrupt cut to clean recording in Lila's backyard 
   (LAX in background); Karel, Mila and Bob in Slovenian till end (~7min)
 
Tape 22 - Side 2 (very good) 30min25sec KAREL JORDAN ZGODOVINA
 Continuation from first side? Karel in Slovenian giving family history
    -- whole side

Tape 23 - Side 1 (good) 24min21sec ATA GOVORI, PRIPOVEDUJE OD SVOJHI 
    STARSEV - 1991
 Karel in Slovenian (some LAX noise in background)
 @7min19sec quick cut to very clear Karel, Mila,  (EXCELLENT)

Tape 23 - Side 2 () verified blank BLANK LABEL

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Tape 24, 25, 26 -- Sides 1 and 2  FRANCA LEGAN nee JORDAN interview by
    JOE LEGAN Jr (actually provided as six 30min long MP3's on CD-ROM)

 (verified that first 3 tapes are original of Bob's Tape 17 Side 1&2. 
  Even to the point that Bob's 45 min tape has "break" at 30 min on first side
  and another break at 15 min in on second side.)

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