It's just been glorious outside these last few days. Skies seem especially blue and clouds more lofty and bright because there is a lot less traffic and air pollution, not just from cars but other shut downs. So while so many loose their lives unable to breath, the breathing is especially good for the rest of us, here in Southern California.
People are impatient and raring to go, get outside, get exercise, get back to work, back to earning income, back to having their lives as they remember it; more physical, more movement. We try to balance that desire with our concern for others. And so some states and some places within states, generally those that are not very populated, begin to open. While we here in Southern California feel we must not be too hasty because we do not want to die or contribute to the deaths of others.
All around us are people who refuse to wear masks or cannot obtain them or make them. One friend is wearing something that looks like what an old fashioned diver would wear under water, except this contraption is on his face in the daylight, sun, and moving air. I myself found swatches of fabric that I never used for other projects and have been busy hand sewing masks. One of them features big sunflowers. Another has a design that's mod from the 1960's. These masks don't coordinate with anything I wear but they are bright and fun and I wish to project that in wearing them. If the trend continues out of necessity, I anticipate there will become fashions that coordinate hats, scarves, and other objects with masks.
My senior citizen friend, one of the most active and vital women in her 80's I've ever known, finally, with mask and hand sanitizer ready, entered the local grocery store where she had been sending her son-in-law, who somehow got to be the designated shopper, for the last six weeks. Younger and able to stand in lines to get into stores, he has been so good to do the shopping for their somewhat organic household. However, he would forget what he bought last, resulting in too many bags of apples and too many cans of beans.
At the same time people began to share the fruits on their trees that they seldom actually think of as crops. She has dozens of lemons, oranges, some grapefruit, as well as loquat (which tastes a bit like apricot) and is trying to preserve some of these. Her lemon cake is exquisite.
This past weekend a small beach nearest me was supposed to be cordoned off.
A friend who lives on a boat at the marina tells me that people are coming down there with their families, bringing bicycles, and biking around for exercise, rather than at the beach area, and it's making all those that live on their boats concerned. Mostly my friends who are able to travel the world have had to avoid planning their next trips.
Will all the dogs have anxiety when their homebound owners finally head back out the door as they used to?
I know I've had sleep disturbances and unusual and symbolic dreams. Reading around this subject, I discovered an article over at Daily Mail Uk today that said that thousands of people are sleeping and dreaming the same. Yet when the dawn arrives, I'm up and out of bed, making my morning tea, taking my dog out for her morning stroll, and thinking about how best to use my day.
I hope you are well!
C 2020
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Saturday, April 18, 2020
THE 1828 HUNGARIAN PROPERTY TAX CENSUS : KEYS TO USE - INDEX : 1828 CENSUS TIP #1
WILL THE 1828 CENSUS OF HUNGARY HELP YOUR GENEALOGY and FAMILY HISTORY PROJECT?
My first tip about this census is to use the index which may save you time.
If it were not for a woman named Martha Remer Connor, who created an index for some of the 1828 Census of Hungary, there would be no index for this census at all. Ms. Connor was easing the way for us to look at the original census and you may very well save time using her work.
I spent hours looking for surnames in this census, using my cell phone, and made dozens of bookmarks. When I went back into FAMILYSEARCH using those bookmarks, which usually works, they had ALL reset to the start page of the county, rather than the exact pages I bookmarked. It was distressing. Additionally, though there is a SEARCH feature that appears inside of each volume, it did not function correctly for me, and so I had read hundreds of pages one after another in the first place.
You might have a different experience using it. My advice is to take notes the old fashioned pen-in-hand way.
Ms. Connor did her indexing years ago at the Las Vegas Family History Center owned by the Latter Day Saints. She typed it up. It's readable. The majority of the surnames are correctly spelled. There are a few iffy ones. (i.e. There are fairly standardized spellings for Hungarian surnames by 1828 - to check an iffy surname run it through a translator and see if it has a meaning.) Her volumes were microfilmed for public use. These volumes were a monumental effort on her part (Bless her!) but it's NOT a COMPREHENSIVE LIST of ALL COUNTIES in Hungary in 1828.
Using FAMILYSEARCH, go to Search CATALOG, then search for HUNGARY, and then to CENSUS. Open that. Ms. Connor's work is under that listing.
To start, each volume has a good lists of towns and the typed page number of the original manuscript the town will appear on (which is not the same as the image number). Each volume also has at the beginning sketchy black and white maps of old Counties, an illustration of the ways that various handwritten letters were fashioned depending on language - German script different than Latin.
Most useful of all is an INDEX of surnames by habituation. If you are dealing with a rare surname or a situation where it's clear the people moved from where you've first found them, but you don't know where to, from this might help narrow the locations.
The census COUNTED ONLY PEOPLE WHO OWNED PROPERTY - LAND at each location, people who therefore were expected to pay TAXES. You may be surprised at how few people in a location qualified but also what little it took to be qualified. Basically, if you owned* a house then it was on LAND, so you were a taxpayer.
Although each of the 25 volumes has good information about COUNTY LAND OWNERS, the BOOK OF CITIES is volume 13.
After using the index, you can look at "Vagyonosszeiras 1828" in the FAMILYSEARCH CATALOG. There were over 300 microfilms. The original census books are in the National Archives of Hungary. Each film has a long list of places and the list is alphabetical.
Upcoming - how to read the census 1828!
*On August 3 I changed the word had to owned. However, I'm unsure what the situation was back in the day when it came to home ownership. Were there home loans? I tend to think not. These days we use the word had more loosely to include homeowners as those who still have a mortgage. Those who are RENTING or living on a noble's land as surfs in 1828 will appear on this census but not as LANDOWNERS and are thus not on this INDEX.
My first tip about this census is to use the index which may save you time.
If it were not for a woman named Martha Remer Connor, who created an index for some of the 1828 Census of Hungary, there would be no index for this census at all. Ms. Connor was easing the way for us to look at the original census and you may very well save time using her work.
I spent hours looking for surnames in this census, using my cell phone, and made dozens of bookmarks. When I went back into FAMILYSEARCH using those bookmarks, which usually works, they had ALL reset to the start page of the county, rather than the exact pages I bookmarked. It was distressing. Additionally, though there is a SEARCH feature that appears inside of each volume, it did not function correctly for me, and so I had read hundreds of pages one after another in the first place.
You might have a different experience using it. My advice is to take notes the old fashioned pen-in-hand way.
Ms. Connor did her indexing years ago at the Las Vegas Family History Center owned by the Latter Day Saints. She typed it up. It's readable. The majority of the surnames are correctly spelled. There are a few iffy ones. (i.e. There are fairly standardized spellings for Hungarian surnames by 1828 - to check an iffy surname run it through a translator and see if it has a meaning.) Her volumes were microfilmed for public use. These volumes were a monumental effort on her part (Bless her!) but it's NOT a COMPREHENSIVE LIST of ALL COUNTIES in Hungary in 1828.
Using FAMILYSEARCH, go to Search CATALOG, then search for HUNGARY, and then to CENSUS. Open that. Ms. Connor's work is under that listing.
To start, each volume has a good lists of towns and the typed page number of the original manuscript the town will appear on (which is not the same as the image number). Each volume also has at the beginning sketchy black and white maps of old Counties, an illustration of the ways that various handwritten letters were fashioned depending on language - German script different than Latin.
Most useful of all is an INDEX of surnames by habituation. If you are dealing with a rare surname or a situation where it's clear the people moved from where you've first found them, but you don't know where to, from this might help narrow the locations.
The census COUNTED ONLY PEOPLE WHO OWNED PROPERTY - LAND at each location, people who therefore were expected to pay TAXES. You may be surprised at how few people in a location qualified but also what little it took to be qualified. Basically, if you owned* a house then it was on LAND, so you were a taxpayer.
Although each of the 25 volumes has good information about COUNTY LAND OWNERS, the BOOK OF CITIES is volume 13.
After using the index, you can look at "Vagyonosszeiras 1828" in the FAMILYSEARCH CATALOG. There were over 300 microfilms. The original census books are in the National Archives of Hungary. Each film has a long list of places and the list is alphabetical.
Upcoming - how to read the census 1828!
*On August 3 I changed the word had to owned. However, I'm unsure what the situation was back in the day when it came to home ownership. Were there home loans? I tend to think not. These days we use the word had more loosely to include homeowners as those who still have a mortgage. Those who are RENTING or living on a noble's land as surfs in 1828 will appear on this census but not as LANDOWNERS and are thus not on this INDEX.
This post is part of a series. To bring up all posts click on the tag: Pro tips:1828 Hungarian Census Help
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Sunday, April 12, 2020
Friday, April 10, 2020
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
FRITTERS RECIPE - FROM MY PANDEMIC CUPBOARD and ME
If you are using up what's been sitting in your cupboard or refrigerator or freezer rather than go to the store. Or your store is out of the products you need. You might want to try some new recipes, preferably healthy ones. I put this together the other day and it worked out wonderfully.
You'll use:
One half pound of dried green peas. (You can try yellow).
Soak the peas overnight for some savings in gas or electric.
Separate the peas into two halves. Cook half for about 20 minutes and then throw the rest in for another 20. To do this bring to a boil and then simmer. This should provide you some peas that are almost mash and some that are closer to intact and crunchy. Drain thoroughly.
Potatoes. It's preferable to use ones that you can cut up with skin on.
Cut up about five small to medium ones into cubes and cook until just ready to be mashed. Again, bring to boil and lower heat. Drain thoroughly. Mash them up.
Put your spices on the potatoes and mash again.
I used MASALA originally intended for TANDORI CHICKEN. You can also make up your own spice mixes, such as garlic, paprika, oregano, marjoram, etc. It's good to use fresh from the garden if you have it.
Kale. I cut up two long pieces of dark kale into thin strips - uncooked -
Throw that in the bowl.
Onion. I used yellow. White or red work well too. Dice fine - uncooked. Throw that in the bowl.
Also good: parsley, celery, cut fine.
Mix in the peas.
Let the mixture COOL.
Break two room temperature eggs into the cooled mixture of potato, peas, and herbs and mix again. You should now have a mixture that is easy to form into patties.
In large skillet - preferable iron - melt butter.
Dip each of the patties into Bread Crumbs. It's OK to use stale toast. I used left over bread stuffing from Thanksgiving.
Put patties in butter and cook until they have a nice brown crusty coat on each side. I made 24!
These can be eaten right away hot. The next day I tried some cold. I liked them.
You can eat these with so many other foods. Boiled or scrambled eggs. Mayonnaise or catsup or soy sauce or plain yogurt or cottage cheese... The peas and the kale provide lots of protein. There's vitamins in the potato skin.
Let me know if you tried it!
C Magyar-American BlogSpot
You'll use:
One half pound of dried green peas. (You can try yellow).
Soak the peas overnight for some savings in gas or electric.
Separate the peas into two halves. Cook half for about 20 minutes and then throw the rest in for another 20. To do this bring to a boil and then simmer. This should provide you some peas that are almost mash and some that are closer to intact and crunchy. Drain thoroughly.
Potatoes. It's preferable to use ones that you can cut up with skin on.
Cut up about five small to medium ones into cubes and cook until just ready to be mashed. Again, bring to boil and lower heat. Drain thoroughly. Mash them up.
Put your spices on the potatoes and mash again.
I used MASALA originally intended for TANDORI CHICKEN. You can also make up your own spice mixes, such as garlic, paprika, oregano, marjoram, etc. It's good to use fresh from the garden if you have it.
Kale. I cut up two long pieces of dark kale into thin strips - uncooked -
Throw that in the bowl.
Onion. I used yellow. White or red work well too. Dice fine - uncooked. Throw that in the bowl.
Also good: parsley, celery, cut fine.
Mix in the peas.
Let the mixture COOL.
Break two room temperature eggs into the cooled mixture of potato, peas, and herbs and mix again. You should now have a mixture that is easy to form into patties.
In large skillet - preferable iron - melt butter.
Dip each of the patties into Bread Crumbs. It's OK to use stale toast. I used left over bread stuffing from Thanksgiving.
Put patties in butter and cook until they have a nice brown crusty coat on each side. I made 24!
These can be eaten right away hot. The next day I tried some cold. I liked them.
You can eat these with so many other foods. Boiled or scrambled eggs. Mayonnaise or catsup or soy sauce or plain yogurt or cottage cheese... The peas and the kale provide lots of protein. There's vitamins in the potato skin.
Let me know if you tried it!
C Magyar-American BlogSpot
Sunday, April 5, 2020
A NOTE ABOUT FLASH VORTEX ON THIS BLOG
I noticed that the Flash Vortex animations I had installed on this blog - which was working for years and I truly loved - had stopped working. Then a computer tech expert suggested that I remove the code as there have apparently been some problems with security for SOME Flash Vortex installations. I hope to restore these, time allowing, and I thank FLASHVORTEX, for helping make this blog interesting to look at.
Saturday, April 4, 2020
Friday, April 3, 2020
WHATS IN A "HOLD"? (1828 HUNGARIAN CENSUS HELP COMING UP! )
The "Hungarian acre" is called a HOLD.
What Americans call an "acre" Hungarians call an "Angol Hold" (English Hold)
When you see plots of land on Hungarian census, they are in HOLDS.
A hold is actually 1.0665 X 1 acre - so larger than an Angol Hold.
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