Is Berkitz phonetically the same as Petricz
My great grandmother, Ilona Bohla, listed her mothers maiden name as Berkitz on her NYC marriage certificate and her fathers name was Andras Bohla.
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/LHWT-9WQ
However, I believe that this is her baptism/birth record, but her mothers name is listed as Petricz.
Are they phonetically the same name? Both records reference her birth place as Kosice. Could the marriage clerk just spelled it the way that he heard the name spoken?
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(This group is for communicating in Hungarian. The Austria-Hungary group would be more appropriate for this question, but I don't know whether moderators can move threads between groups.)
No, Berkitz and Petricz are not the same, but given that both the birth/baptism record and the marriage record have evidence of corrections, there was clearly some uncertainty about the names. (The marriage record's change from the correct Bolha "flea" to the nonsensical Bohla is particularly perplexing.)
Some random comments on the family….
Pista and István are very likely the same person, as the one is a nickname for the other. (They're both forms of Stephen. Yup. Really.)
Improbable as all the jumping around the country seems, the 1893 birth record in Túrkeve has the same parents' birthplaces and father's occupation (of miller) as this birth in Erzsébetfalva (Budapest district 20) in 1898: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GPB6-F5P?i=71. (Death six months later, in BP district 7: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DR4Q-SH2?i=263.)
Regarding the note on Bolha Ilona's profile: I don't think the 1869 census sheets survive for Kassa. (They were all supposed to be destroyed, and most of them were, but there were some, mostly from northern Hungary, that accidentally weren't. FS filmed the survivors about 25 years ago. FS finished digitizing all of its films several years ago.)
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