Please help me read this death record for Anna Misko, 29 Jan 1877, Szpefalu, Temes, Hungary (Schondo
It looks like to me that she was a widow of a Thaddaei Luss (not sure of the spelling. not sure what operavii means. Does Groc Cath. means she was a different religion other than Roman Catholic? maybe Greek Orthodox? If so, where would a birth record be kept for a Greek Orthodox? If it says she is originally from Schondorf, does that mean she was born there?
Thank you for your help!
Becky Heath
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Operarii is the genitive case of the Latin word Operarius - which means a day laborer.
And yes, she is the widow of Thaddaeus (the i ending is also a genitive case ending, you can read about it on the Latin Genealogical Word List page on the FamilySearch Wiki)
Groc. Cath. would probably be an abbreviation for Greek Catholic. The place, Frumuseni is known as Szépfalu in Hungarian and Schöndorf in German, which explains the Schondorf found in the record. She is likely born there, but FamilySearch just has Roman Catholic records for that place. I would guess that the Greek Catholic parish is in another city. To find records, you would need to find the Greek Catholic parish in a gazetteer.
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6. 29 January 1877
Anna Misko, female
widow of Thaddaeus Lujs, laborer
Schöndorf No. 367
Greek Catholic
age 50 years
There are two columns that can have places in them; I would assume the first is the birthplace and the other is the residence, and if they're the same, they only wrote it once, as in this entry.
The religion column says "Grae Cath": Greek Catholic, which is a compromise made by many Orthodox/Byzantine Rite churches in the Habsburg empire. In exchange for official recognition and permission to worship using Eastern rites, they acknowledged the Pope and were administratively part of the Roman church. (I.e., no, it's not Greek Orthodox, although it uses the same form of worship.)
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Dvorzsák's gazetteer thinks the Greek Catholic population of Szépfalu was negligible (total 4 people), but he says they were recorded in Zábrány (Zăbrani, Romania).
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Thank you so much! Is there a way to look online at the Greek Catholic records online or a way to request a copy from them in another way?
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Also is there another way to spell Lujs? Do you think he is Greek catholic as well?
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Looks like both Ancestry and FamilySearch only have Roman Catholic records for Zabrany/Zabrani. You could try checking the Roman Catholic registers for Szpefalu to see if she is there. If not, you could try contacting the National Archives in Romania: http://arhivelenationale.ro/site/
It's possible that he could be Greek Catholic as well - Anna's death record suggests that she was a widow. You could try searching for his death record a few years before and see if his religion is noted.
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