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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HUNGARICANA URBARIUM 1767 : USE GOOGLE SEARCH AND TRANSLATE TO LEARN HUNGARIAN RELIGIOUS HISTORY - THE TURKS : GENEALOGY PRO TIP #13

HUNGARICANA URBARIUM 1767 : USE GOOGLE SEARCH AND TRANSLATE TO LEARN HUNGARIAN RELIGIOUS HISTORY - THE TURKS :TIP #13

Besides using the Hungaricana (a site belonging to the National Archives of Hungary) to search for the information on the Urbarium 1767, the census ordered by Queen Marie Theresa at a time when Hungary was part of the Austrian Empire, you'll want to search the site for information held in it's archives and special collections about the time, place, and people of a region. This other. often incredibly important information, can be read in English, using the Google Search engine and the opportunity to translate.  To clarify, the translator will not work on the archived images of the Urbarium, but it will work to translate excerpts from books.

On the Urbarium, as previously mentioned, you will encounter places that seem to be wholly owned by a church or religious entities, an "Ecclesiastica" entity, or where there are monasteries, nunneries, bible colleges, priest education centers, pilgrimage sites, and so on.  

Using the search HUNGARICANA URBARIUM GONC, for instance (Gonc being the town previously mentioned, the name translating to "Hustle Bustle," perfect for a town that was integral in the marketing and shipping as part of the agricultural and vineyards economy as well as the coopering of the "Gonc wine barrel) I not only pull up information about the town but this:  

TRANSLATE GOOGLE : ESZTERGROM ECCLESIASTICAL BOOK from 18th century - PROPERTIES - TURKS

This book is about a time and place in which the Hungarians and the Churches, particularly the Roman Catholic Church, had suffered the devastation of the occupying Turks. TWO THIRDS of the HUNGARIAN POPULATION WAS SLAUGHTERED BY THE MUSLIM TURKS.  Because of this devastation, people were invited in to settle and populate the country from other countries and ultimately this provided in country ethnic diversity. This is when Germans in particular started coming into the country by sailing down the Danube or traveling in the equivalent of the Wagon Trains we're familiar with in America. (And to this day the Constitution of Hungary states this is a Christian country which ties in with current attitudes about immigrants.) 

The book selected to link to as an example of the NATIONAL ARCHIVES of HUNGARY archives is from the 18th century but it has information collected in the 1500's!  It's about the properties by county and place owned by the church. It mentions places destroyed during the Turk's invasion and occupation. Gonc itself is only mentioned once. 

But there's a lists of properties including that which HERMITS had taken over from them in the mid 1500's. 

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HUNGARIAN URBARIUM 1767 : GETTING THROUGH THE REPORTAGE FROM INQUIRY : GENEALOGY PRO TIP #12

HUNGARIAN URBARIUM 1767 :  GETTING THROUGH THE REPORTAGE FROM INQUIRY : GENEALOGY PRO TIP #12

As I did early in my URBARIUM 1767 genealogy research tips, I encourage you to imagine the census taker and his entourage on horseback - with or without carriage - making it through roads that are almost all rural (and in towns may still be muddy and rutted by the wheels of carts) and generally unmarked - surveying the landscape and even giving names to places that may not have had official names based on the way the topography looked. He traveled ruggedly over a rural country, slowly by today's standards, and finding accommodations along the way will be important to his well being.

Imagine him coming towards a huge estate, perhaps owned or used by one of the wealthiest nobles in the country who also owns estates in other places - towns - villages - counties - in the country, which is a far vaster Hungary than there exists today. Serfs and others who live on the land may warn him or his retainers that the census taker is coming and they might even be in cahoots with him to not tell the whole truth about what he owns. (Note on the URBARIUM the testimonials may also be witnessed by and sealed with wax by local dignitaries, if the town has one, such as a judge.)

The census taker sits down to have a conversation with the noble or his estate manager - it's an interrogation - and during this time it's not just his observations but also the testimony of the land owner that will be written down. If you are like me you scan this portion looking for important and recognizable names, maybe print it out, hoping that you will be able to pick through it, maybe some time when you wake up at three in the morning!

There is a POSSIBLE solution to this dilemma, and on this I must say Google as a search engine and Google translate are very helpful.

I get comments on this blog that I consider to be spam because they are usually someone warning against using Google or any other translation and instead hiring a Hungarian and English speaker. For the English speaker, however, I think using these is best to start. (And the translation may seem awkward but you'll get what's being communicated!)

Using the search engine, put in the words Urbarium Hungaricana and then the TOWN NAME. And up will come an opportunity to use the Google Translator.  Accept it. Sure some words will translate too literally, for instance a surname that also means a profession.  You can always go back to the original handwritten book, if what you read in English intrigues you.

I put in the words Urbarium Hungaricana Forro (a small town) 
and here is what came up: ARCHIVES HUNGARICANA HUNGARY - FORRO TRANSLATION OF FRONT PAGE

Clicking on the tag Gen Tips: 1767 Hungaricana Urbarium will bring up all posts in this genealogy series. 

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Just checking, as I do, once in a while, to see where my readership is coming from, and I am surprised and delighted to know that there are people in countries other than the United States, Canada, Australia, and Hungary and the old Austrian Empire, who are checking in.

Welcome, and I wish you all happiness at this time and in the New Year.

TO MY READERS AROUND THE WORLD! HAPPY 2011!

Hello my friends from around the world!  Happy New Year 2011!

I want to thank my new readers who are connecting here not just from the United States, which I expected (and am very happy about) but also in CANADA, UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE, HUNGARY (how would I feel if absolutely no one in Hungary had yet noticed this blog ? Terrible!), CHILI, SPAIN, SOUTH KOREA, GERMANY, and SOUTH AFRICA!

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