I took the time to check ANCESTRY.COM for Hungarian records to see if some of the most common surnames in Hungary would come up... When they did not and I saw that Ancestry.com was crediting Jewishgen as the source, I realized what was happening here.
I tried HUNGARY ALL CITIZEN CENSUS 1869. WHAT AN TOTALLY MISLEADING TITLE! Source JewishGen?! It's clear that this TITLE SHOULD BE CHANGED TO "JEWS OUR JEWISH VOLUNTEERS DECIDED TO INDEX."
I also tried HUNGARY ASSORTED CENSUS RECORDS 1781-1850
AGAIN THE COMMON HUNGARIAN SURNAMES DID NOT COME UP.
I hate when a database is called "Assorted." THIS SHOULD BE RETITLED TO "JEWS ON THE CENSUS RECORDS THAT OUR JEWISH VOLUNTEERS DECIDED TO TRANSPOSE."
You may not think of it as I do, but basically these FALSE and MISLEADING TITLES are like BAIT and SWITCH.
Why does JewishGen think that if they are going to turn over all their records to Ancestry.com that they should continue to run their own web site and plead constantly for more volunteers and more donations?
You can always use FAMILYSEARCH on the INTERNET FOR FREE.
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Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Monday, July 28, 2014
USING JEWISH GEN TO NAVIGATE EUROPE MAPS BY LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE (and lots of other good info!)
LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE - those are the degrees going around the globe (latitude) and degrees going north to south (longitude) that are used to locate a place.
You don't have to be Jewish to use Jewishgen.
I have to say that I do have a little hesitation to count on it because back in the day I knew volunteers who were combing through LDS films to present databases of Jewish people and they didn't include people they thought were not Jewish and included some - based on first names like Noah or Sarah - who were not Jewish but who sounded like they might be to the individual doing the culling. This was the perspective of volunteers who knew so little about Christianity that they didn't know that Old Testament names are to this day given to Christian Children.
But onto the little lesson I have for you today. If you use JEWISHGEN to locate a community you will get a page and a map, sometimes with old postcards attached. Here is the one for KIRALY HELMECZ.
JEWISH GEN YIZKOR ETC FOR KRALOVSKY
It says it can be located at 48°25' / 21°59' . You can use that on the old maps that give latitude and longitude like the one I just wrote about, the Austrian Military Survey.
You can get an old street map like this (from the site.)
You don't have to be Jewish to use Jewishgen.
I have to say that I do have a little hesitation to count on it because back in the day I knew volunteers who were combing through LDS films to present databases of Jewish people and they didn't include people they thought were not Jewish and included some - based on first names like Noah or Sarah - who were not Jewish but who sounded like they might be to the individual doing the culling. This was the perspective of volunteers who knew so little about Christianity that they didn't know that Old Testament names are to this day given to Christian Children.
But onto the little lesson I have for you today. If you use JEWISHGEN to locate a community you will get a page and a map, sometimes with old postcards attached. Here is the one for KIRALY HELMECZ.
JEWISH GEN YIZKOR ETC FOR KRALOVSKY
It says it can be located at 48°25' / 21°59' . You can use that on the old maps that give latitude and longitude like the one I just wrote about, the Austrian Military Survey.
You can get an old street map like this (from the site.)
You find a book about the Jews of this town to read, before and after the Holocaust. This would be interesting just to get a feel for life in the Old Country when your ancestors lived there. (In another town's page I learned how many Jewish houses and how many Christian houses were burned in a fire.) A Yizkor book is a memory book. They are usually dedicated to the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust.
