Saturday, March 29, 2025
Thursday, March 27, 2025
HUNGARIAN SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS - BOSTON HUNGARIAN CLUB
The Hungarian Society of Massachusetts, Inc., is a community of individuals of Hungarian descent, and those with an interest in Hungarian culture who, without regard to political or religious affiliation, and in accordance with their talents, opportunities and interests, support the Society and take part in its activities.
Our Mission and Goals
- Foster and impart our Hungarian language, culture, identity and traditions to our descendants and to interested individuals through programs, meetings and gatherings;
- Propagate Hungarian culture in as many American circles as possible, thereby developing and maintaining strong ties between Americans and Hungarians
- Support one another as we build and sustain our lives in America
- Cultivate and nurture ties with Hungary and Hungarian émigrés around the world
- Provide moral, spiritual and occasional financial support for Hungarian causes.
Saturday, March 15, 2025
FUN LEARNING WITH HUNGARICANA #6 : LIBRARY COLLECTIONS : GOING FAR BACK INTO THE FOUNDING OF HUNGARY AS A NATION : BIBLE FROM 1533
The collections in the Hungaricana library links are also useful for historical and family history and genealogy research. Remember though that these are mostly BOOKS that have been preserved. Árpádkori okmánytár = Archives of the Árpád period
Museum publications
Archival publications
Archival documents
Medieval documents
Library documents
Local newspapers and history
School yearbooks
Old Hungarian Library
Special collections
Lutheran collection
Catholic collection
Calvinist collection
Unitarian collections
Jewish collection
Diaspora collections
NOT SURPRISING IS THAT THERE IS A BIBLE COLLECTION.
In the Roman Catholic collection, let's look at this link LIBRARY HUNGARICANA RMK 1.# BIBLIA UJSZOVETSEG
TITLE RMK I. 3 - RMK I. 198 RMK I. 3 - Biblia. Újszövetség. Pál levelei (magyar). Cracoviae. M.D.XXXIII. [1533], mense Februario. Hier. Viet. Paul's letters
Bibles on early printing presses were expensive and this one appears to have been sponsored or made for a particular Grof = Count/ Countess - Katalin Perenyi and was provided by the National Széchényi Library.
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Saturday, March 8, 2025
FUN LEARNING WITH HUNGARICANA #5 : DYNAMIC BUDAPEST TIME MACHINE : LAND REGISTRIES, CITY DIRECTORIES, and SO MUCH MORE FOR HISTORY AND FAMILY GENEALOGY RESEARCH!
This aspect of Hungaricana is truly dynamic. There is just so much to explore. You can use maps to see how the city transformed, find out who died in the 1956 Hungarian revolution, look at land ownership registers
You will have to play a bit with this aspect of the Hungaricana databases. but for the purposes of this blog, we will look at what is available about a particular lot:
HUNGARICANIA : LOT 24008 1056 BUDAPESTHelyrajziSzam/24008/. You see there is information as far back as year 1688 about this property. There is a topography map and a map of present day Budapest, showing the eateries and that this property on Iranyi Street is about a three block walk to the Danube.
HUNGARICANA BUDAPEST TIME MACHINE START PAGE
You will have to play a bit with this aspect of the Hungaricana databases. but for the purposes of this blog, we will look at what is available about a particular lot:
HUNGARICANIA : LOT 24008 1056 BUDAPESTHelyrajziSzam/24008/. You see there is information as far back as year 1688 about this property. There is a topography map and a map of present day Budapest, showing the eateries and that this property on Iranyi Street is about a three block walk to the Danube.
I encourage you to click on a whole lot of links and find your way around the TIME MACHINE...
If you are not Hungarian speaking, you will probably need the Translator to understand what the links hold.
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Thursday, March 6, 2025
FUN LEARNING WITH HUNGARICANA #4 : FOLK MUSIC TO LISTEN TO BY REGION : PECS - TOLNA SAMPLING
The Folk Music Collection of the HAS-RCH Institute for Musicology is behind this aspect of Hungaricana databases. There are more than 90 musical dialects on a map...
THERE ARE SO MANY RECORDINGS TO SAMPLE!
So many singers!
https://zti.hungaricana.hu/en/6729/?list= from Pecs - Tolna
TITLE Kiskertembe szedik a virágot, én is szakítok róla
TRANSLATION
They pick the flowers in my little garden, and I get rid of them tooThe collection includes images of the covers of albums, copies of phonograph and gramophone records from the Museum of Ethnography made between 1896 through the 1950's, and the Zoltan Kodaly manuscript melody collection compiled between 1905 and 1958. (Sheet music.)
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Monday, March 3, 2025
FUN LEARNING WITH HUNGARICANA #3 : PICTURE and POSTCARD GALLERY - CASTLE FUZER
GALLERY HUNGARICANA That's the start page! Run the name of a place, a person, or a thing...
Gróf Károlyi László birtokán fekvő fuzeri (Abaúj m.) várromok
TRANSLATION : Füzéri (Abaúj m.) castle ruins on the property of László Count Károlyi
Over 40 pictures or postcards come up when doing this search using the term Fuzer. They come from the following sources: Fortepan, National Szechenyi Library, Institute for Musicology (RCA), and The Zemplen Museum.
Using Fuzer up came these images: GALLERY HUNGARICANA HUNGARY : Search word FUZER
Click on the image and you will be taken to more information about it, including where it is located or which person or institution contributed it to Hungaricana.
GALLERY HUNGARICANA GROF KAROLYI LASZLO
Gróf Károlyi László birtokán fekvő fuzeri (Abaúj m.) várromok
TRANSLATION : Füzéri (Abaúj m.) castle ruins on the property of László Count Károlyi
It also says that this was published through a book store in Satorujuhely and was taken by an amateur photographer.
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