BUDA and PEST IN THE MIDDLE AGES

 

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

HUNGARICANA BUDAPEST TIME MACHINE START PAGE

 "The Time Machine is ideal for deep research as well as relaxation."

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.

1916 CITY DIRECTORY FROM HUNGARICANA LIBRARY FOR THIS STREET IN BUDAPEST

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.

Hungarian Genealogy and History Tips in this series can be viewed together by clicking on the tab Hungaricana Fun

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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...

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 too

THERE ARE SO MANY RECORDINGS TO SAMPLE! So many singers!

The 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.)

Hungarian Genealogy and History Tips in this series can be viewed together by clicking on the tab Pro Tip Hungaricana Fun

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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...

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.

Hungarian Genealogy and History Tips in this series can be viewed together by clicking on the tab Pro Tip Hungaricana Fun

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