Marriages in Budapest in the 1920s
Would there have a particular district where a couple would have gotten married, if they did not live in the same district in Budapest in the 1920s? My great-grandparents lived in the 16th (Sashalom) and my great-grandmother died there. (I found her death registry). I have not been able to find a marriage certificate for them there. So I presume neither lived there before marriage. So I'm wondering if there was a "central" city Hall (1st? 5th?) before I dive in to sift through all 22 other districts marriage records
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Vital events are registered in the district where they occur. Yeah, I know, for civil marriages that's rather circular, but if there was a church wedding, its location can help track down the civil record. It's kind of hit and miss, though -- for example, my grandparents' marriage was recorded in Budapest district II, even though the wedding was in district I. (Neither of them lived anywhere near Budapest.)
I think for Sashalom the problem may be that it wasn't part of the city yet in the 1920s. The chart at http://mikrofilm.uw.hu/civil/budapest.html indicates that up to 1923 the registrar's office was in Cinkota, for which FS has marriage records up to 1928, but between 1923 and 1950, Sashalom had its own registrar, and those records aren't on FS (because it was Pest county, which did not participate in the records preservation contract with the Mormons).
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I doubt there was a church wedding: he was RC and she was Greek-Catholic, and also a Romanian citizen at this point when she came to Budapest and a widow with 2 young boys. Her second child from her first marriage was born in 1920, and their first child together was born in Jan 1925. So I am going on the assumption that they married between 1922-1924. There are marriage records for Sashalom 1923-1931 buried in there, after the Rákosszentmihály records, and I looked at all of them, (in case baby came before marriage) and also checked records for his hometown and found nothing. So I guess I'll have to go district by district.
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MACSE says they have 210 marriages indexed in district XVI in 1923, which is more than Cinkota's 79 (Film 4855551 part 13, images 385 to 411) plus Sashalom's 27 (Film 7251771 part 2, images 254 to 263), leaving me wondering what they've discovered on which film....
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Sorry, what is MACSE?
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Magyar Családtörténet-kutató Egyesület. Their indexes (https://macse.hu/society/anyakonyv.php) are members-only (for which one pays either with money or with indexing), but they're way ahead of FS.
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