FROM THE SITE: "My geographic focus is on Eastern Slovakia (Slovak Republic) / formerly Czechoslovakia / formerly Upper Hungary. Primary research areas include the peoples and lands in the Carpathian mountains and immediate borderlands of Southern Poland (Galicia) and Western Ukraine (Carpatho-Rus). As Slovakia was a component of pre-1918 Hungary, much information about "old Hungary" is contained herein and will be useful for any pre-1918 Hungary research."
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This sight is a great place to look for small settlements in relationship to larger ones so that you can mine the 1869 and other Hungarian Census (which in the LDS catalogue is under Slovakia). The idea is to find that settlement's municipality first.
Apparently the full census of all the counties of 1969 Hungary are not filmed and/or digitalized to be used on databases or the Internet. However the 1869 census can be very important in your research because the SURNAMES are given (including the maiden surname of wives different from their husbands), birth years, occupations, and a list of occupants of a dwelling including grandparents, boarders, farm help, and so on.
Apparently the full census of all the counties of 1969 Hungary are not filmed and/or digitalized to be used on databases or the Internet. However the 1869 census can be very important in your research because the SURNAMES are given (including the maiden surname of wives different from their husbands), birth years, occupations, and a list of occupants of a dwelling including grandparents, boarders, farm help, and so on.
I have to admit my own research is stuck here. I'm looking for a male who says on his naturalization that he was born in 1847 but who on census and marriage records seems to be taking a few years off his age. So he was born say anywhere from 1847 to 1850. (Though it was common for 40ish widowers to marry town "spinsters" (women not married by say, 22) he seemed rather determined to be only 38 when he married a second time.
I looked to find his village on this site and it was identified as in the Bodrogkoz municipality. However, using FamilySearch, there were only about 43 images counting maybe about 12 family groups, none who had his surname or any other surname I associate with the family. Which means that he might have been born in the area about 20-22 years earlier but there is no sign of them right there. Maybe another village in this same county?
Further I think, based on a deep analysis of house numbers in the small town in which he lives the rest of his life until coming to the U.S., that he did not get to that town until about the same time, 1869. In 1869 another family is living in the house and I don't see any relationship with them. He could be there living in but there is no record of him until his first marriage on church records. It's as if he moved to begin working as an adult in another town just when the census was happening...
This one takes patience, travel, synchronicities, or acceptance of a brick wall.
I looked to find his village on this site and it was identified as in the Bodrogkoz municipality. However, using FamilySearch, there were only about 43 images counting maybe about 12 family groups, none who had his surname or any other surname I associate with the family. Which means that he might have been born in the area about 20-22 years earlier but there is no sign of them right there. Maybe another village in this same county?
Further I think, based on a deep analysis of house numbers in the small town in which he lives the rest of his life until coming to the U.S., that he did not get to that town until about the same time, 1869. In 1869 another family is living in the house and I don't see any relationship with them. He could be there living in but there is no record of him until his first marriage on church records. It's as if he moved to begin working as an adult in another town just when the census was happening...
This one takes patience, travel, synchronicities, or acceptance of a brick wall.
