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Seuss. Handy Guide to Hungarian Genealogical Records. 1980(out of print) (find in a library) Brandt. Contents and addresses of Hungarian archives : with supplementary material for research on German ancestors from Hungary, (find in a library) Reed. Finding Your Hungarian-American Roots: A Guide to Researching Your Historical Atlas of Central Europe "Hungary " in The Library: A Guide to the LDS Family History Library pp.568-571 (out of print) (Find in a library). This book is available in the CD Ancestry Reference Library) Hungarian Village Finder, Atlas and Gazetteer From Heritage Quest (find in a libarary)
Audiotapes of lectures given at gneealogy conferences and seminars with the word Hungary and the word Hungarian in the title.
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Before you start to work with records, download the Family History Library's very comprehensive Hungarian Word List When searching the IGI online you can limit your search to the region Continental Europe country Hungary, but the results will include individuals from the pre 1918 Kingdom of Hungary. To know if an entry coincides with the current Hungary, check the place name. If the word Megye is used to designate a place name, that place is not in the current country of Hungary. It is a good idea to also check the IGI for Austria, Romaina, Yugoslavia and Romania. View Hungary maps in the University of Texas Library's Perry Castaneda map collection. 1914 Map of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Search the LDS Catalog to find out what resources are available for Hungary. Click the "View Related Places" button, upper right to find the 104 geographic subdivisions used for Hungary Explore what is available on the World GenWeb site for Hungary To establish where a place is located, search the 1913 Gazetteer of Hungary. The Jewish Gen ShtetlSeeker allows you to search for Central and East Europe towns by name, then find proximate towns. Visit the website of the National Archives of Hungary. Rootsweb Guide Preparing for Old Country Research: Hungarian Genealogy.com provides a brief guide to Hungarian research. Hungarian Research: Beginning Your Research From America Alex Glendinning's Family History in Hungary -- don't overlook part 2. This is written from the perspective of a British researcher and assumes you might be visiting Hungary to do your research, but contains a wealth of helpful information. Hungaria.Org's Geneologia page provides a wealth of helpful information. See also their list of genealogy links. Look at $ RadixIndex $ which offers Hungarian genealogy and local history databases. It is a subscription site, but has a number of free services. New databases are free for one month and you can sign up for a newsletter that will alert you to new data. They also offer a surname alert service. To find out if your surname is in one of the existing databases, check the surname index. If you find a surname, type the name in the search box, upper right corner, to learn what databases contain that name. There is also a free Forum, where you can read and place queries and a blog, with news related to Hungarian family history research. Austro-Hungarian Genealogy Website has several useful pages. A few that caught my eye inlclude Find variations of surmanes in Hungary in the 1890's... click on the visitors link on the right to see where these names clustered. (scroll down;a the bottom you will find links to the surnames listed alphabetically and by most to least common. ) Hungarian Genealogy List and Help is the genealogy page of Hungarotips where you will find a fun page of information about the country. The genealogy place provides a place for queries, but unfortunately there is no search engine on the site. Catholic Church in Hungary -- to locate current and historical Dioceses; includes addresses and web links. Another helpful site is Local Catholic Church Family History and Genealogy: Hungary Diane's Hungarian Genealogy Word List and examples of Hungarian Letters in Old Documents . She also provides a fill in the blank letter (in Hungarian) that can be sent to the Hungarian Archives. The JewishGen Hungary database contains over 300,000 entries. I believe these are limited to people who were identified as being Jewish. German Genealogy: Habsburg Empire provides links to information on the area as it was from 1814-1918. Read or place a query in the Hungary GenForum or one of the Rootsweb/Ancestry Hungary Message Boards Join the Web Archive of Hungarian Genealogy, where you can find several helpful forums. Note you must register, and can choose to view the site in English at registration. (How to register) More Links... Cyndi's List includes links to Hungarian resources on the Eastern Europe Page
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