Are there any additional websites to help with researching in Hungary?
I am doing research on my ancestors who lived in Baranya County, Hungary around 1870-1905.
Does anyone know of any websites that contain census data or city/county records from that time period that are not available on Family Search? I have found the data on Family Search kind of limited. Thank you!
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Census records are not available as a genealogical resource in Hungary, because the data sheets are purposely destroyed after tabulation. (Some of the 1869 census enumerations accidentally survived, but they're all northern, so inapplicable to Baranya.)
Civil registration began in the Kingdom of Hungary on Oct. 1, 1895. Before that, vital records were the responsibility of churches. To find out where the church or registration office was, consult a gazetteer. The Central Statistics Office has all of the pre-WWI official ones (http://konyvtar.ksh.hu/index.php?s=kb_statisztika#kb_statisztika_helysegnevtarak). Dvorzsák's gazetteer is available from the University of Pécs (https://kt.lib.pte.hu/cgi-bin/kt.cgi?konyvtar/kt03110501/tartalom.html). There's also an English tabular version, linked to an annotated tabular version of the 1913 gazetteer; they're on the Wayback Machine because RadixHub lost its domain registration (https://web.archive.org/web/20160327063819/http://www.radixhub.com/radixhub/gazetteers/1877).
FamilySearch has civil registration records for most of Baranya for 1895-1918 (sometimes a little later). They have not yet been indexed, but they are online as browsable images. You can access the images either by looking for the placename in the Catalog (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog) or via the waypointed collection (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1452460 -- scroll down and click on the "Browse" link).
FS also has church records for much of Baranya county up to 1895. The Roman Catholic and Reformed baptisms have been mostly indexed. Other events and denominations are generally online as browsable images. You can use Search - Records to search the indexed baptisms, or you can use the Catalog to look for the place where the church was. (The church records do not have a waypointed interface.)
For middle- and upper-class families, another resource is the collection of funeral notices on FS (https://www.familysearch.org/search/image/index?owc=https://www.familysearch.org/service/cds/recapi/sord/collection/1542666/waypoints). Again, these are browsable images. There is also a largely-overlapping collection on Dspace (a unified digital library/archive), which offers OCR-based search (https://dspace.oszk.hu/handle/20.500.12346/111768;jsessionid=A5DC6007641060AD97F50DA73F47E427).
Another free resource is Hungaricana, which has OCR-based searching available in a large variety of periodicals and directories (https://hungaricana.hu/en/).
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Thank you.
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