Questions: Record Labels, Indexing, Child Brides
Hungarian was my first language, but it's been a long time and I am very uncomfortable trying to use Hungarian conversationally. I am happy to use google translate here, if that is preferable or more appropriate?
I have so many questions and I have no idea where to direct them. So I think asking here is a good start.
1. I keep finding books of records that are for Hungarian places that are labelled for Slovakia and Czechoslovakia. In time periods when Slovakia and Czechoslovakia didn't even exist. It's driving me a little crazy, because I have to leave the locations incorrect, to continue researching and add notes with the correct locations. Is it unreasonable to think that these full books of records from the 1700 and 1800s should be labelled correctly?
(Also dates, is there a way to "submit corrections" when the collection has the wrong dates in the title?)
2. I'm at the part of my research where I am looking through unindexed documents, page by page. I have gone over some of the documents multiple times, looking for different families in my ancestry. I sent a message (I can't remember where) asking if I could index these documents, because I felt like I was wasting my time, by not indexing as I was carefully going through them. (And it would be helpful for others!) I was told no. Okay, fine.
What is the process for getting unindexed documents into, the already established, indexing queue? Is there a step before indexing, where they need more volunteers?
3. Has anyone found child brides in their research? I found my first Hungarian one. She was born in 1790 in Acsalag, Sopron. And I don't think I can find out any more because of a church fire that destroyed records. I'm curious about how common this may have been at the time. I've never found anyone this young before. Quite disturbing.
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I can try and answer your #1 and #3. :)
After the Trianon treaty, registers of births, deaths and marriages stayed in the communities that found themselves outside of Hungary. These historical records were part of Hungary before, but if the place is in Slovakia now (or rather when these were scanned by the Mormons in the 1960s), they are listed there. It is a bit inconvenient, but manageable.
When you say child bride which age you mean? (You did not say how young that girl from Acsalag was.) Girls marrying at 16 was not uncommon and was not seen as an issue. Most women of course waited till later - marriage was more of a deal and less out of love, so often the families had to work it out. Women were also expected to have kids almost immediately, so marriage "needed" a certain biological maturity.
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