Dobosy László: Gömörszőlős : egy gömöri falu néprajzi monográfiája (Borsodi Kismonográfiák 19. Miskolc, 1985)

completed to 142 acres. From 1950 the ishabitante undertook work in the near factories and mines so the cultivation of land was decreased year by year. The ancient geographical names keep the memory of the old farming and advanced husbandry, but shows well the varies surface of the village, too. They had the richest stock of horses of the neighbourhood. Oace there was also stud farm in the village. Even now more farmers keep horses. Formerly the horned cattle was reared in cool schepherding. Their sheep-keeping was varying. The forest had always a ruling position besides the sparse agriculture. One part of their living was ensured by the works of the timbering and conversion of timber. In 1921 during the forming of the frontier most part of wood was lost. Not only the administrative and ecclesiostical connection was tight with Kelemér but also the choice of couple. The young men of the surraunding villages liked the girls of Gömörszőlős as wives. Till 1950 they chose wives especially in Gömörszőlős for they kept to their ethnographical concord. By starting the bus line their connection with the territories in Borsod appeared in their marriage, too. The oldest inhabitants of the village are the Families Babus, Kovács, Varga ang Kis. Their names figures in the tithe list of the XVIth century. Sometimes more men by the same name lived in the village, so numerous nickname had developed. In the public order and public morals they had rules what took shape for centuries. They condemned and spoke badly of those people who departed from the everyday attitude. Before the liberation the scope of movement of the .small, closed village was very limited. The movement of the women spread only to the dwelling place of their relationship and the near market. After the new Czeho-Slovakian boundary the inhabitants of Gömörszőlős had a notable additional income of the smuggling. The mutual wood made possible the animal smuggling to the Czecho-Slovakian territory from where a great number of food and industrial articles were smuggled. From 1904 till 1905 the emigration to America caused the powerful decrease of the inhabitants capable of working. Ten per cent, altogether 38 person were emigrated. Before the revolution the inhabitants of Gömörszőlős ensured their living wholly from the agricultural and they were almost self-supporting. After 1950 many of them had changed the peasant way of life to the industrial 79