Please help me find the parents of my 2nd great grandmother, Sophia Seger (K8VR-T9F)
I believe Sophia was born in Panscova, Hungary on 2 April 1876 (now Pancevo, Serbia). She married my 2nd great grandfather Nicholas Kirschner on 23 Nov 1893 in Panscova or somewhere nearby. Both of their children were born in or near Panscova. Sophia, Nicholas and both children emigrated together through Ellis Island on 18 Nov 1910. She lived the rest of her life in Southern California and died 22 June 1952 in Los Angeles, CA.
I have found alternative information listing her as Sofia Jeger, born in 1876 in Startschowa, Austria Hungary, and also married in Startschowa. However, I can't find any original sources to verify this alternate information.
I have searched records online through FamilySearch and Ancestry. I have searched the Ortssippenbuch Pantschowa-Pancevo at the Family History Library. I have not been able to find any records of her birth or her marriage. I have also done DNA testing and have not found any matches connecting to her line. I am stuck on her and I'm searching for something that will give me her parents' names.
Thank you!
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You've consistently transposed the 'cs' in Pancsova. (In Hungarian, 'cs' is the same as English 'ch' as in "church", while 'sc' makes about as much sense as 'hc' would.) According to Dvorzsák's gazetteer, the place had a church for nearly every denomination: RC, Greek Orthodox, Lutheran, Reformed, and Jewish. FS has films of some of the Roman Catholic records from the city, but the latest they have is 1877, and that's only for marriages, not baptisms.
Startschowa is the German spelling of Sztarcsova, which was a town in Torontál county, Hungary, about 3 miles south of Pancsova. It was later called Tárcsó, and is now Starčevo, Serbia. It had a Roman Catholic and a Greek Orthodox church locally, but FS only has some of the RC records, and that only up to 1830. (The gazetteer entry is at the bottom of page 683 and the top of page 684.)
That just about exhausts what I can find by looking at maps and gazetteers, and I don't know who has the registers you'd need to look at, and where. Both the birth and the marriage would be in a church register, but their children could be in a civil register, if they were born after Oct. 1, 1895 (the start of civil registration in the Kingdom of Hungary). According to the 1913 gazetteer (downloadable as a PDF from the Central Statistics Office), both Pancsova and Tárcsó had civil registry offices locally.
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Julia, Thank you for the spelling correction. It is confusing, as I see it spelled multiple ways on the documents I have found after they immigrated to the US and filed for citizenship.
I will try look for a family book for Startschowa/Sztarcsova next. I do know they were Catholic, so that helps narrow down the Church records to look through. But is seems like the records in FS and the FHL are just not the right time periods I'm looking for. I'm just a few years too early for some and too late for others.
Sophia's children were born in 1894 and 1898, so I may be able to find the second child in the civil register.
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Kelly, I am so glad we met yesterday and discussed your options of where to upload questions concerning this difficult research query. Were you able to find the church online, to see if they have a contact to write to?
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