How or where can records be found prior to 1895 and after 1920?
Hi, am a beginner genealogist and have used/viewed category records for Hungary but I don’t see or can’t find records prior to 1895 or after 1920.
My ancestors live (I think some still live here) in Gamischdorf, Pusztaszentmihaly, Vas Hungary. Last name researching is Krammer. My grandfather - Karl/Charles born there in 1921, Uncle Michael in 1922 to Ernestinni and Karl/Karoly. I finally found my ggrandfathers naturalization paperwork which had there marriage date and today found the actual marriage record!! HOORAY and thank you!
I’d like to find the marriage and birth records of gggfather and his dad but don’t know where or if these records are available. Also I know Ernestinni and Karl had 3 additional children who died - have picture of grave stone but can’t see the dates. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
PS I am aware and use the Burgenland Bunch information but need records prior and after which they don’t have recorded.
thank you in advance- Carol (Krammer) Courtney
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Civil registration began in the Kingdom of Hungary on October 1, 1895. Before that, vital records were the responsibility of churches. You should consult a gazetteer to find out where the relevant church was.
Record availability depends on place, denomination, and event. Roman Catholic and Reformed (Calvinist) baptisms have been largely indexed and are thus searchable by name on FS, but keep in mind that a lot of the indexing was done by volunteers with only a minimal (or sometimes, nonexistent) grasp of the languages involved, so you cannot rely on the index alone. Other denominations and events may be available as browsable images; I use the catalog to access those, because the new "Images" service on FS has proven to be more trouble than it's worth (for me).
I'm not sure what happened with civil registration in Burgenland between Trianon and Austria's start of civil recordkeeping in the 1930s. There is an ongoing effort to digitize Roman Catholic records in Eisenstadt, in cooperation with the Győr diocese; it's paywalled, but the progress spreadsheet is free. I believe there is information about it somewhere on the Burgenland Bunch site. (Maybe check the newsletters?) (My Burgenland ancestors were all Lutheran, so this is not a detail I've kept track of much.)
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Ah, okay. I think I came across the site for the gazetteer. I’ll have to figure out how that works on the other side of the pond. Thanks for the insight!
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An English tabular version of Dvorzsák's 1877 gazetteer is on the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20160327063819/http://www.radixhub.com/radixhub/gazetteers/1877
The Central Statistics Office has digitized versions of all of the pre-World-War official gazetteers: http://konyvtar.ksh.hu/index.php?s=kb_statisztika#kb_statisztika_helysegnevtarak
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