How to Identify Parish

EmiliaP4

Hello,

I’m researching the Austrian-Hungarian Empire for a family friend, so I don’t have any experience with this region. Are there any websites/gazetteers to determine Catholic parishes based on town names? The current town I have is Ivanda.

Thanks!

Emilia

Christopher Kovach_1

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_Empire_Gazetteers

Christopher Kovach_1

https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~banatdata/genealogy/DDB/ByVillage/Ivanda.htm

Julia Szent-Györgyi

Dvorzsák's gazetteer (https://kt.lib.pte.hu/cgi-bin/kt.cgi?konyvtar/kt03110501/0_0_1_pg_684.html) says that the Ivánd (Ivanda) in Torontál county, Hungary had a Greek Orthodox church locally; Roman Catholics were recorded in Jánosföld. To my surprise, FS actually has some church records for Jánosföld: https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/308920. (For most places that are now in Romania, there's basically nothing available online.)

RadixHub's English tabular version of Dvorzsák is available on the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20160327063819/http://www.radixhub.com/radixhub/gazetteers/1877. The page numbers in the tables link to the University of Pécs's scan (linked above), but you have to remove the web.archive stuff from the URL. The placenames in the tables link to a summary page, which links in turn to a summary of the 1913 gazetteer, with added columns giving the modern name and country.

You can download the 1913 gazetteer as a PDF from the Central Statistics Office's gazetteer page: https://www.kshkonyvtar.hu/article/56/959/helysegnevtarak. The other official gazetteers are also available from that page; they open in a new tab. They use ancient web programming for the navigation (remember frames?), meaning that most of it is broken, but luckily the alphabetical index (betűrend szerinti helységnévmutató) still works, and that's really all you need.

EmiliaP4

@Christopher Kovach_1 @Julia Szent-Györgyi

Thank you for the sources! I'll have to check them out.