HAVHEGY CHAPEL - ON THE ROCKS in PECS HUNGARY

Havhegy Chapel in Pecs, Hungary

 

EGG SUBSTITUTES - FOR YOUR EGG CRISIS BAKING!

EGGS provide valuable protein in our diets so we are in a crisis when we cannot afford them. However, we can use other ingredients to substitute for eggs in our baking, perhaps leaving the real eggs to be eaten boiled or scrambled.

Eggs provide a binder - a substance that holds other ingredients together - when we bake.

APPLESAUCE can be a terrific egg substitute in baking, especially because it ads a little flavor but not overwhelmingly so.  I've used this with success.

1/4 cup APPLESAUCE for every 1 egg - There is no fat in the applesauce so you may want to add a little more oil.

1/4 cup mashed BANANA for every 1 egg.  These do have oil but will add a banana flavor...  So you can make banana bread that is eggless.

FLAX SEEDS... ground.,,, also called "meal." One tablespoon seed to three tablespoons of water.  Let then soak and stir to get consistency.

TOFU - the silky soft kind (made of soybeans) and a fairly neutral flavor. 1/4 cup for every one egg.   Adds protein as well.

BAKING SODA and VINEGAR - helps the loaf rise.  1 teaspoon of soda to 1 tablespoon of vinegar.  Since baking soda is already in many recipes, I confess to not being sure how to adjust a recipe using this option.

PLAIN YOGURT  - 1/4 cup for every 1 egg.

BUTTERMILK  - 1/4 cup for every 1 egg.

PEANUT BUTTER - 3 tablespoons for every 1 egg.  Has oil. Influences flavor.

OTHER NUT BUTTERS - ditto.

CARBONATED WATER also called SODA WATER - 1/4 cup for every 1 egg. Helps the rise.

Now, almond butter or carbonated water might work if you're making pancakes.  Peanut butter cookies might be a better use for peanut butter.

I've had great luck with Yogurt as a substitute.

GELATIN - 1 Tablespoon gelatin to 1 Tablespoon cold water.  Like the FLAX SEED MEAL give it a stir as it's a binding agent. Then add 2 tablespoons of boiling water and stir some more... you should see that it's turning into gel.

I haven't tried this but a friend suggests that even flavored gelatin could be a great addition to plain cookies or white cake batter. Such as lemon or orange.

I hope these ideas will help you feel a little less deprived!

Coming up in the next few months, some How To's on making use of groceries one may find in a Food Bank box!

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THE SAD STATE OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY - FAKE EGGS TO DYE FOR EASTER - TWO FOOD BANKS INSTEAD OF ONE

I'm writing this post on March 10th, having just heard that an important bank that funds investments in the tech economy based in Silicon Valley, central California, has gone belly up. Like in the Christmas film, It's a Wonderful Life, there has been a run on the bank, but it's not people physically going there expecting cash. Rather, upon hearing this was happening, people pulled their funds electronically. This bank failure is said to be the biggest since the crash that began The Great Depression.  I spend some time listening to various opinions about what will happen next. By the time this posts, I/we will all know if that bank failure has had a "rolling effect."

This past week or two I experienced some telling signs that our economy is not healing from the ordeal of Covid, that inflation is beyond the high being reported.

First it was going to the grocery nearest me, which I should name but won't at this point, a store that I have long suspected is gouging customers who do not want to put in travel time or gas money to buy groceries. I'm signed up for this companies special discounts for those enrolled. They are trying to break the union by having people register themselves out and by having people come and pick up their purchases through a pre-ordering shopping system. 

They also run coupons suggesting an item is free and usually there is such a run for it that that item that gets people in the store has run out before I get there.   Last summer they had a free store brand Pizza which was usually marked at about $2 to $3 dollars.  That same pizza was now marked at $6.99.

Seeing a box of 50 typical papery Made in China face masks for $5.99 there a couple months ago started me thinking they were gouging. Then I noticed their day old bakery items were marked double what they had been. The other day I went in to buy the laundry detergent I swear by, the Arm and Hammer 100 loads Unscented, which I last purchased for about $12 about a year ago. I was shocked to see this item marked at $23.00 for the same...

As a result I went to a pharmacy type store that is a chain about a half mile away. I searched for laundry soap and found NONE on the shelves.  So I went to the register and asked if it was possible that the product was elsewhere in the store.  Actually they had moved all the laundry detergent BEHIND THE REGISTER. The clerk told me this was because people were walking out - stealing - bottles of laundry detergent!  They did not have my brand.

I went to another store and saw what appeared to be white eggs in cartons.  It turned out that these fake eggs were crafts items ready for dying for Easter and offered as a substitute to those who CANNOT AFFORD REAL EGGS...  There is no indication the price on eggs is coming down, and some brands are $9. to $12 a dozen for the real eggs.  So kids will have fake eggs in their Easter baskets?

Finally a friend of mine headed for a senior center in another town where she was able to get some free groceries on Wednesdays. It turns out that, due to higher demand, they were going to do these food distributions by lottery and twice a week, on Mondays and Fridays.  This food comes in from an outside organization not a governmental agency. They pick up food that grocery stores are supposedly are ready to throw away. The higher demand is because the extra money put into the EBT food cards from the federal government of the United States for Covid relief ended.  (This money also stimulated our economy.)

I needed some onions and also shopped for them.  The store I suspect of gouging wanted $1.69 for a pound of white onions. The "Mexican Market" a small chain that is probably not unionized, had them for two pounds for $1 but I didn't have an hour for the round trip. I found them at a "dollar store" (where near nothing is a dollar and where the register always ads on a penny)  where they were prebagged at three pounds for $2.  At home I found one big onion in there appeared to be moldering.

A young woman I know who works as a waitress for a chain said business wasn't down but the tips were (while the sexual harassment by men was up.)  Out to buy her own groceries after serving meals all day to others more fortunate, she loaded up on the cheap noodle soup packets for her own dinners.

As a result of all this, I'm going to try to post more recipes using food items that are often given out at food banks. Remember I have volunteered for a couple food distributions in recent years and have a good idea what is in those bags.

I will also be posting about EGG SUBSTITUTES for cooking soon.

During World War II, when food rationing was in place in England, they got one egg a week, one pint of milk, four ounces of meat... just barely enough... I believe people can make it through - when there is an end in sight.

Let us not forget that the Covid pandemic was very real. None of us could imagine when the first masking mandates began that we would be effected for YEARS.

I hope we are not headed for another Great Depression.

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GYPSY SONGS FROM HUNGARY

Gypsy or Gipsie - Romany - Romani - or Rom

I enjoyed listening to this video while I cooked...

It's from Traditional Music Channel

FERENC RAKOCZI : and a post from EUROPE BETWEEN EAST AND WEST BLOG

EUROPE BETWEEN EAST AND WEST : MANY HAPPY RETURNS FERENCE RAKOCZKI : REBURIAL 2020 A very well written essay, the author finds he is following the reburial of this Hungarian Hero of the 1848 Revolution.  An excellent history of what happened in Hungarian history...

The author tells the story of the burial and movement of the hero's ashes... 

Excerpts: "While Kossuth is synonymous with the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, his name is not eponymous with an entire war for independence. That accolade was reserved for Rakoczi because of his leadership in the fight to wrest Hungary away from Habsburg rule. Rakoczi's War of Independence lasted from 1703-1711...

The defeat sent Rakoczi and his closest followers into permanent exile. His life ended twenty-four years after his war for independence. Far away from his Hungarian homeland, Ference II Rakoczi drew his last breath on the shores of the Sea of Marmara, 90 miles from Constantinople in the Turkish town of Rodosto.  Rakoczi's ashes eventually came to rest at Lazarist Monastery in Constantinople."

(However, when Austria took over, there was a push to return his ashes to Budapest, and then to Kosice. There would be a crypt waiting for him...)

Excerpt: "In retrospect, the resurrection of a Rakoczi cult seems like a quintessentially Hungarian thing to do. They celebrated a lost war, for a star crossed cause, led by a long dead war hero who spent his last twenty-five years in exile..."

Rokoczi's ashes were taken from Budapest to Kosice and to Saint Elizabeth Cathedral.

An excellent blog! Follow along as the author takes us to the crypt. 

Note that Kosice in Slovakia was Kassa in Hungary.  Saint Elizabeth is the largest cathedral in Slovakia. 

1867 COMPROMISE MILITARY RECORDS - WHEN AUSTRIA RULED HUNGARY : PRO HUNGARIAN GENEALOGY TIPS # 3 USING THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF HUNGARY

We are not totally dependent on FamilySearch (or any other database in the United States of America) to find the records that are originally sourced from Hungary.  We have the use of HUNGARICANA which is the database that originates in the country of Hungary and is a function of the National Archives in that country. The archives hold military records that go beyond what we've just looked at in the FamilySearch catalog.

HUNGARICANA cultural portal   You will see a number of database categories on this start page.

I put the words "military 1876" into the search and up came a number of readable books that are in English...  I know that the language presents difficulties for those who are not native in it... I know that personally, so I don't want those of you who never had or lost the language to be totally deterred from doing Hungarian research... search using English words and see what comes up!

THIS LINK TAKES YOU TO A BOOK IN ENGLISH THAT WILL TELL YOU WHERE MILITARY RECORDS CAN BE FOUND IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF HUNGARY...

https://library.hungaricana.hu/en/view/MALE_Sk_2006_mo-i_leveltarak_angol/?query=military%201867&pg=0&layout=s  

ARCHIVES HUNGARICANA HU - LIST  See the links to other regional archives.

Austria Military - search for osztrak katonasag brought up this list :  https://archives.hungaricana.hu/en/lear/search/results/?list=eyJxdWVyeSI6ICJvc3p0clx1MDBlMWsga2F0b25hc1x1MDBlMWcifQ&per_page=20

Few genealogy projects are entirely dependent on military records. So, if you do not find the men in your family who most likely did have to serve that two years on these records, don't feel too bad. I personally am chasing down a person because of note on a marriage record that he was in the reserves and the man was born in 1850.

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1867 COMPROMISE MILITARY RECORDS - WHEN AUSTRIA RULED HUNGARY : PRO HUNGARIAN GENEALOGY TIPS # 2 TRANSLATING THE DOCUMENTS

Depending on church records mostly for your research, you may find notations on marriages in particular that the groom is an officer -  tiszt,  or a soldier - hajdu, or you might see the word hadsereg - army.  There might be a notation on a child's baptism that the father is serving. It might be on his marriage record, for instance, that he is serving.  (Some men married by proxy while serving!)

I'm using FamilySearch and the following records to discuss how to use these.  

Specifically, I'm using the following record group.

Katonai nyilvantartasi jegyzek 1863-1888   (List of Military Records) 

Gonc  Hadkiegeszito Parancsnoksag (Main Author)

Published in 1962 by Filmre vette a Genealogical Society of Utah 

There are four films.  I'll be using film #008737879 and film #008737839 

These are Muster Rolls from the Gonc Military District.

There are notes that this film covers the years 1866-1876 (and birth dates 1841-46 and 1850 - 1856, suggesting that there are missing pages for men born 1847-1849) However another film many include some men born during that period.

These records I'm using as an example are from Abauj county.  Before the split up of Hungary, Abauj county had much more territory than it does now, when parts of it are now in Slovakia and towns now have Slovak names.  So these records have the potential to cover a lot of territory.

Some of the places mentioned include Goncruska, Szanto, Telki Banya, Fony, Crizoly, Also Reymecz, Ujfalu, Felso Dobfzu, Hejcze, Hermad Keres, ...

Gonc (also seen in records as Goncz and Gontz) was historically a civic center, a place of governmental administration, though it appears to be a small, unimportant town today. These military records include those men who came from the surrounding area. The four categories hold records that are thousands of pages and no index is forthcoming. In fact, I sense that the original records that FamilySearch microfilmed decades ago in archives within Hungary, were intended as a kind of index. But more on that later. *********

My experience:

First of all the FamilySearch SEARCH function in which you put in the film number was not working. I'd taken down the number 8737879 on notes and tried to use it in their SEARCH feature to bring it up. It did not work. I tried it with and without the 00 in front of the number.  I tried it multiple times.

Therefore, you may have to bring these up by going into the CATALOG function. Search in the CATALOG for Gonc (the name of the town) and then choose military records. You'll see the word Gonc twice as it is the town AND the Military District. 

Across the top of the records you will see columns/categories of information which are in Hungarian and sometimes in Hungarian and Old German lettering. Some of these were not properly written in the first place. So here are the corrections, sans the accent marks.

THE COLUMNS  (Please note that this covers the version used quite a bit but there is also a shorter version and a longer version existing on this film.)

1) a kozseg neve de osszeir asi jegyzekenek szama

This translates to "the name of the group and the number of notes."

In general this means "Where the person is from" because the name of the group is named after the town.  (This does not necessarily mean that this is where a soldier was born but think of it was where the person was living when it came time to serve in the military.  And there is a good chance it is also where they were born.)

On pages to the far left you will see a list of numbers, and that is where they hand wrote the numbers of notes otherwise thought of as "items."

2) Sorz szam

This translates to "Serial Number" and I see that this column is often blank.

3) A hadkötelesnek csaladi es kereszt vagy elo neve

This translates to "The conscripts family name and first and last name."

This sounds awkward.  It might be thought of as "soldier's name, first and last" however, I believe it is stated this way because sometimes a "family name" is not the same as the soldier's first and last name. This is because there is an understanding that some people come from a "House" such as a Noble House or a Clan (which would be the family name) and within that House  or Clan they have another name.  For instance, as a made up example, a person might be going by the name Janos Kovacs but come from a noble lineage Andrassy. On other records you might also see this written Janos Kovacs alias Andrassy.  There could be a variety of surnames that are associated with the House or Clan, harkening back to the ancient days. After looking at hundreds of pages, I haven't seen this written in, but the column heading allows for that possibility. Instead we are finding a first and last (or surname) simply with notation that the person is a noble. 

4) Szuletesi i eve

Translates to "It's her birthday."  Ahmm.  Birthday

Usually only a year is given.  But this is where you must be careful not to assume. The records are arranged so that the men are listed by year born, and the older they are, the earlier that year. And the older they are - in general - the LATER they are on the record/film. It's too bad full birth dates are not given. 

As I click along, reading page after page, I see that some effort is also made to group men by their home location.

5) szylet es helye  

translation?  Think Location, Location, Location,

jaras is singular form of jarasok translating to district.  The Hungarian megye (county) was further divided by districts. Think of an American county, further divided by Townships.

megye means county

orszag means country

In general I see the name of a town listed again, often matching the first one mentioned.  So a man served or was in the reserves fairly close to home.

 6) vallas allapot - religious background

These records include men of Catholic (R.K.), Reform (Ref.) (Protestant), and Jewish background. They overall include people of all religious backgrounds. Greek Catholic (Gr.C.) may indicate that the family has Carptho-Rus (Ruthenian, Rusyn) heritage, or Ukrainian, or Slovak.  Evangelical (Eve) indicates they are Lutheran, indicating the family may have German heritage. Zsido is the term used for Jewish, though I have also seen Israelite (Isr).

Notlen - unmarried

Nos - married

Gyermek - child

vagy azok or those

nelkul - without

(Who would make a better recruit? A man who needs to support a family or man who won't leave a wife and children if they die in military service?)

7 - 10) 

tudasa - awareness  (i.e. is this person intelligent? informed?  Educated? Have any special skills?)

olvasus - reading

iras - writing

zene - music

mesterseg - handyman

(This is about a man's education, and so how he might be useful to the military.  I like that they ask if the person knows music. Implied he plays an instrument or sings.)

11) az atyanak csaladi kereszt vagy eloneve

This translates to the father's family cross or first name...

The "family cross" is implied to be the family shield/ name, again this refers to noble House or Clan.

What I see in general is the name of parents (implied unmarried soldier) or the name of a wife (if married) but read across,

12) haz szam helyseg kozseg hol a hadkote les lakik

translates to "house number, location, district, where the soldier lives."

If this is filled out, it could be interesting.  It might tie into church records and other census.  It's a possible lead or secondary document.  

13) test nagy saga translates to the saga of the body or body story  hmmm....

test nagy saga translates to... I admit this is strange but it seems to be saying... "According to the little bird."  And we used to say "A little bird told me..." to indicate gossip.

Roughly, what does this person say about their heath? How big are they? Basically it appears to be all about how TALL they are, and based on contemporary heights, these men are seemingly about as tall as Napoleon...  I see this column is left empty quite a bit. (I eliminated the stats as indicating weight as I saw one that had the word for inch.)

On some forms:

mell merteke - breast courage  indicates a measurement size of chest . They need uniforms.

Overall I'm reminded that people seem to have grown taller through the decades, because we have better nutrition. 

14) lelet az utolso allitasnal   Find with the last alliteration

le lett az utolso   The last one is down.

Let's try the German :  

befund bei der bebten stellung  means "findings in the trembling position"?...

So - my genealogy friends - this seems to be asking "When the going gets rough, how does this man bear up? How does he act? Does he have courage? Or is he a weakling?

Hajdu means Soldier.  So when I see hajdu written in, I figure that man has passed some test of courage or endurance or wit.

15) az ava stasi bizott many lelete reszrol  Findings /basis for findings by the committee/ commission

Katona - Military   Polgar - Civil

The absence of notes in this column indicate to me that this was probably only used if a soldier got himself in some trouble and therefore had to go into some review in which he was judged and some determination was made.

16)  az avatottnak be osztas  - for the initiated

iranti  - on

ki va - who is

na ta  - so there you are

I tried a translation from the German and it was worse.  Basically, I believe this column is to express information on who is who, what their rank is. 

17) az avatas napja az ezred - the day of initiation is the regiment

Hadtest - corps

vagy osztaly neve - or class name

melyhez beosztatott - to which he was assigned.

18) eszrevetel - perception (final assessment overall)

OTHER WORDS TO ENCOUNTER:

korostaly - Old Age.  These men are not elderly, they're just a bit older, still in their early twenties, so what is indicated is that they have probably nearer to ending their term of service.

Further the record will state where the person is stationed, if it is not in their hometown. In general it appears that most men served fairly close to their home town, which probably made visiting family, taking care of personal adult responsibilities, and especially, being a reservist, easier on them and their families. These were agriculture economies in which the men's labor was very much needed.

Commentary:

The records are and are not arranged as one might expect.

Alphabetical, yes, however only by first letter.  That means that it may appear to be fully alphabetical, taking into consideration every letter in a surname in some places, but do not be too quick to think the surname you seek is not listed  If the surname you are using begins with Sz, look through ALL of the letter S.  And so on.

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Slightly edited on April 8, 2023