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Revised Contents ->Last updated April 7th 2001<-
New at Hungarian Sites | Family History in Hungary, Beginning Your Research from America, Bibliography Magyar | My Hungarian Family History | Common Surnames in Hungary | The Hungarian Mailing List | Other Hungarian Pages: Family History Links (1) Archives and Libraries (2) Research and Advice (3) Personal Home Pages (4) Geography (5) Villages and Towns (6) Churches (7) The Jewish Community (8) Ships and Passenger Lists (9) Societies (10) Photographs and Postcards | Other Links (1) History and Politics (2) Language and Tourism (3) Miscellaneous Background Sites | Slovakian Pages | Other Eastern European Pages | Awards and Reviews


Family History in Hungary (and Slovakia)
A Guide to Tracing Your Ancestors in Two Parts

Hungarian Ancestry: Beginning Your Research From America

Bibliography Magyar: Hungarian Books in English


My Hungarian Family History

The Szedmáky Family (of Budapest, Hungary and Vajk, Slovakia)
The Edelényi Szabó Family (of Pápa, Hungary) | The Tóth Family (of Pestujhely, Hungary)

Grand Mama Came From Pápa
The story of my uncle Sanji, who died in Russian captivity in 1945

The Hungarian Reformed Church in Paris 1938


Hungarian Mailing Lists

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Other Hungarian Pages

Family History Links (1) Archives and Libraries

The Petofi Museum of Literature Database: Magyar Eletrajzi Index. Records of 67000+ Hungarian professionals, including name(s), birthdate and place, deathdate and place, profession and the abbreviated source of information. Click on Adatbazisok, then on Magyar Eletrajzi Index.| Központi Statisztikai Hivatal/Hungarian Central Statistical Office | Kriegsarchiv Austro-Hungarian War Archives | The Funeral Institute of Budapest Co. One firm now responsible for all the Cemeteries in Budapest - English language pages | L.D.S. Hungary Catalogue | Budapest City Archives | National Archives of Hungary | An html-ed book on Hungary's Archives - note it is in Hungarian | A short list of Links to Hungarian Archives (Levéltárak) | Budapest City Library: Fövárosi Szabó Ervin Könuytár

Family History Links (2) Research and Advice

Darrel Boyt's Translating Hungarian Baptism Records plus the beginnings of a new project: Translating the Hungarian Civil Birth Record Form | Study Web History & Social Studies: Culture:Europe: Hungary | Some useful Hungarian Genealogy CDs | Hungarian and Romanian Genealogy Pages | Hungarotips | John Jasso's Hungarian Terms and Phrases | George Topolcsanyi's List of Hungarian Given Names Hungarian->Latin->English->German | The Hungarian Names Database | Church Record Translations by John Jaso - very useful: English->Hungarian->Latin->Slovak | Radix's 1891 Census Project craftsmen and shopkeepers in Hungary in 1891, according to the national census | GenConnect Hungary Visitor Centre | General Hungary Query Forum | Hungary Genealogy now hosted by Joseph Nemeth | Try the Experimental Matàv Hungarian Phone Book. There has been some discussion as to it's efficiency but it worked for me - 12 Edelényi Szabós found in seconds! | Hungarogens: my friend Dr Alexander Harmath's Genealogical Bureau | Gordon Hillman's Hungarian Genealogy and The Genealogist Web Page contains a Guide to Researching at LDS Family History Centres which may be useful if you are just starting out | For those with German/Hungarian ancestry: Danube Swabians | Need some advice? Visit Radix's Hungarian Research Pages | Hungary Genealogy Forum | Weightman Family Ties including Nancy Kelly's Tips for Reading the 1869 Census and other useful Hungarian information

Family History Links (3) Personal Home Pages

Ruth Tindley's Search for Rausnitz in Vienna, Austria and Hungary | The Brenzovich Pages | Fanni Kosztolányi's Family Pages | André Orban's Orban Family Page | The Bauernhofer Family | Records of the Tötösy de Zepetnek Family / A Zepetneki Tötösy család adattára | Sue Darroch's Demeter Surname Homepage | The Kalista Database | A Toth Genealogy | Janice Galler Danks' Website featuring Galler, Werger, Leber, Mulner, Zingieszer (Czingisser), Reinhardt, Gall, Budir and Hellebrand, all Danube Swabians | Carol Pack Urban's Website | Joseph Nemeth's Varga Family | Ann Mueller's Mueller-Polyak Family Tree | Home Page of the Lex family of Budapest | Deborah Ruth Szabo's Hungarian Search Page | The Burke Family Genealogy Page | Joe Felt's The Hungarian Felts | Ron McComb's Home Page | Thomas & Gwen Chapo's Website | Hirko Family Genealogy Project | Richard Bujaki's Hungarian Home Page

Family History Links (4) Geography

Demographic & Social Maps of Hungary 1900 by János Bogárdi/Radix | Hungarian Place Finder Software KIUT. As the instructions are in Hungarian, Tibor Majláth has kindly prepared an English version at Villages and Communities of Slovakia, Hungary and parts of Romania with Kiut 4.0 | Genealogy Unlimited: European Maps Page | Need help finding a village or town in Hungary? Try Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Faculty of Science Department of Cartography | Hungarian Cartography

Family History Links (5) Villages and Towns

Szeged Home Page | Csurgó Homepage (Hungarian only) | Veszprém.hu | Diósgyõri Grammar School's Guide to Diósgyõri, Miskolc | The Counties of Hungary and Their Settlements | AgriaComputer's site about Eger and Heves County - there is an English version, click on the flag.

Family History Links (6) Churches

The Greek Catholic Church in Ozd | Modern Hungarian Catholic Churches

Family History Links (7) The Jewish Community

Ruth Tindley's The Jews of Pápa | The Brenzovich Pages.JewishGen Eastern Europe FAQ | Hungarian Jewish Genealogy | Jewishgen ShtetlSeeker Town Locator

Family History Links (8) Ships and Passenger Lists

A Ships Database - CIMO - Cimorelli Immigration Manifests Online. A collection of databases comprised of the Morton Allan Directory, M1066 Microfilm series from NARA, various newspaper articles, Internet sources and personal contributions | The Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild | Sheila Burke's List of Passengers aboard the S.S. Caronia sailing from Fiume to New York December 9th arriving December 24th 1911 | Here is some information on Shipping Companies and Liners that may be useful for emigrant families, also check out The Cunard Line Archives

Family History Links (9) Societies

Hungarian Genealogy Society of Greater Cleveland | The Burgenland Bunch Homepage

Family History Links (10) Photographs and Postcards

Hungaria Antiqua Depicta old postcard views of Hungary by János Bogárdi

Photograph Collection of the Hungarian National Museum (Budapest) (Magyar Nemzeti Muzeum. Torteneti Fenykeptar) and direct to the Photo Collection | Hungarian Museum of Photography (Kecskemet) (Magyar Fotografiai Muzeum) | Small Prints Collection of the Hungarian National Szechenyi Library (Budapest) (Orszagos Szechenyi Konyvtar. Plakat- es Apronyomtatvanytar) and direct to the Small Prints Collection | The Postcard Collection of the Zemplen Museum (Szerencs) (Zempleni Muzeum Kepeslapgyujtemeny) | Hungarian Ethnographical Museum (Budapest) (Neprajzi Muzeum), direct to Photo Collection | Links to Picture Collections at County Museums from the National Museum or from the Neumann Digital Library | Plan Section of the Hungarian National Archives (Budapest) (Magyar Orszagos Leveltar. Section T: Tervtar): direct URL of the Plan Section ..... links courtesy of Janos Bogardi

Other Links (1) History and Politics

The Last Generation Forgotten and Left to Die: A History of the Donauschwaben | The Rise and Fall of the Banat (German Hungarian History) | Eastern Europe: The Multicultural Arena | Old World Hungary Web Ring Page | German and Austro-Hungarian Internment during World War One in the United States | The Hungarian National Museum | As 1998 is the 150th Anniversary of the Hungarian Independence Movement, there are a number of sites commemorating the history of those times around the Net. Hungary: Battles for Freedom 1848-1849 | Lajos Kossoth in North America | Radio Budapest have broadcast several programmes on the subject and have a report there in English | Stephen Pálffy's Hungarian Pages | HipCat's New Hungary Page | Peter's Escape from Hungary (1956) | Encyclopedia Britannica: A Short History of Austria-Hungary (1914) | Hungary: A Short History

Other Links (2) Language and Tourism

Go To Hungary | LDS Hungarian Word List | Hungarian-English Travel Dictionary | Hungary in Your Pocket Travel Guide

Other Links (3) Miscellaneous Background Sites

Fine Art In Hungary

BARABÁS, Miklós, The Family Dégenfeld, 1854, Herman Ottó Museum, Miskolc.

Jason Blum's Hungarian Proverbs, Idioms, Aphorisms and Witticisms | Barna's Hungarian Images | Cleveland Hungarian Heritage Museum | Scott Whitelaw's Canadian Hungarian Pages | Hungarian American HyperNews | Hungarian Radio | Hungarian Home Page | Hungarian composer Bela Bartók (1881-1945) | Kinga's Cool Hungarian Links | Otto's Hungarian Import Store & Deli | Lonely Planet's Destination Hungary | History of the Visk Evangelical & Reformed Church | Hungarian Virtual Library | Mississippi State University Hungarian Images | National Costumes of Hungary | Bob Better's Hungarian World | June Meyer's Heirloom Hungarian Recipies | Magyar Pavilion | Hungarian Who's Who | Budapest Site | Prime Minister's Office | Hungarian American Friendship Society


Slovakian Pages

Slovak GenWeb | Slovak Research Page at Carpatho-Rusyn pages

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The Carpathian Connection: Carpatho-Rusyn Villages in Slovakia | Slovak-World Mailing List Homepage | Slovak Genealogical and Heraldic Society at the Matica Slovenská (although there isn't much there yet, at least you get an e-mail address) | Eastern Slovakia, Slovak and Carpo-Rusyn Genealogy | Czech and Slovak American Genealogy Society | Slovakia Home Page | Slovakia Document Store


Other Eastern European Pages

Geraint Jennings' Home Page (many Eastern European and Russian Links) | Federation of Eastern European Family History Societies | Eastern European Section of Cyndi's Genealogical Sites on the Internet


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