THE AUSTRIAN-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE : CADASTRAL MAPS : HOUSE NUMBERS : GENEALOGY GEN-TIPS SERIES #2

THE AUSTRIAN-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE : CADASTRAL MAPS : HOUSE NUMBERS : GENEALOGY GEN-TIPS SERIES #2

The historical time we are focusing on and is valuable to Hungarian researchers is when Galicia was a territory that was once owned by the Austrian Crown, and then the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. As a territory under the rule of  the Austrian Crown and then the Austrian-Hungarian empire, Galicia came into being in 1772, in what was called the 'first partition' (of Poland).There are many opinions about the region during those times. I've listened to academics and rabbis who present their teachings about Galicia on YouTube videos, and well, everyone has their opinion but the man who says it never existed is wrong. It did and there are maps to prove it.

That said, for most of you who are tracing ancestors who were in Hungary, present day Hungarian, Slovakian, Austrian, perhaps Croation, archives will be most important.

SHEPHERDS and SHOEMAKERS on GALICIA - CADASTRAL MAPS 

Galicia is the focus of the website Shepherds and Shoemakers, a family history and genealogy site that I respect. It's informative and useful for genealogy.  The site came up again when I was searching for information on CADASTRAL MAPS. 

In the United States these maps are called Plat Maps. There are sketches, charts, and sometimes plans for the future on these maps.  (For instance, I found one in the U.S. that showed the plans for streets, including the street names, that had not been yet paved - which go back to the late 1950's. A land owner and developer used these for many purposes, beyond designing his dream suburb with the names of his wife and children for street names. They were probably used to get the development past city planning officials and as part of a proposal for financing at the bank.)

Cadastral maps can be of value to your family history and genealogy project. Land surveys were done and the map illustrated the boundaries of properties, the real estate. The maps defined legal rights and responsibility regarding property ownership and use. This all tied in with the things one could not avoid.  To quote my mom, "death and taxes."  

You may be able to tie them in with census, wills, and other documents.

Undertaking the survey and making of the maps was an effort to better understand the towns and villages that it now controlled. The maps helped the government better understand the villages and towns, land ownership, and the value of each settlement that was mapped. 

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THE AUSTRIAN-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE : GALICIA : CADASTRAL MAPS : HOUSE NUMBERS : HUNGARIAN GENEALOGY GEN-TIPS SERIES #1

THE AUSTRIAN-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE : GALICIA : CADASTRAL MAPS : HOUSE NUMBERS : HUNGARIAN GENEALOGY GEN-TIPS SERIES #1

This is the start of an expansive series on the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and the use of maps....  Stick with me!  There's a lot to learn together.  As with all my other Hungarian Genealogy Tips, the series name is put on each tab so you can pull it all up.

THE AUSTRIAN-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE : GALICIA : CADASTRAL MAPS : HOUSE NUMBERS

INTRODUCTION TO THIS SERIES : Austrian-Hungarian Empire - Gen Tip #1

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A WORD ABOUT THE HISTORY OF GALICIA, CADASTRAL MAPS, and HUNGARY.

You say, "What? I thought Magyar-American BlogSpot was all about Hungarian and Hungarian-Americans! Why are we talking about Galicia? Wasn't that in Poland?  

Well... I always advise that a genealogist research the history of the locations that they find their ancestors and use historical records hand in hand with genealogy records. A good part of Poland was part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire.

The historical time we are focusing on and that is valuable to Hungarian researchers is when Galicia was a territory that was once owned by the Austrian Crown, and then the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. 

Austrian-Hungarian Empire

Österreichisch-Ungarische Monarchie in GERMAN

Osztrák–Magyar Monarchia in HUNGARIAN means Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy

Here's some historical background:

As a territory under the rule of  the Austrian Crown and then the Austrian-Hungarian empire, Galicia came into being in 1772, in what was called the 'first partition' (of Poland). 

GALICIA was a vast expanse, which is now south-central and south - in what is now Podkarpakie (Subcarpathia) Poland, a tiny bit of what is now Slovakia but was Hungary, and a portion of what is now western Ukraine. (It's not to be confused with the Galicia of Spain though that comes up when you use databases.) The name Galicia is supposed to have come from the word Galizien which was Halychyna in Ukrainian and Halicz in Poland. 

Galicia was already an ethnically diverse area with a Polish and Carpatho-Rusyn (Ruthenian) Slavic settlers, who were mostly Roman Catholic or "Greek" Catholic. (The Greek Catholics were not ethnically Greek but were originally converted to Christianity by Christian missionaries from Greece.) However, though mostly Catholic, there were Protestants such as Lutheran Germans.

As time went on, Galicia was a good place to settle for Jews, and the Jews who came in included some Sephardic roots Jews, who had left after being exited from Spain and Portugal, as well as the Ashkenazi 'German' Jews and Russian Jews. Over time, there came to be a became significant Jewish population, mostly merchants. 

There were other immigrations of ethnic Germans into what was Hungary, but now this wave of immigration brought them in from Austria. We find the presence of Germanic surnames in Catholic records and Germans marrying Poles. These Austrian-Germans were often also nobles, administrators, and those in a higher status than the traditionally agricultural "peasants' or the men and women who earned their living through making shoes or other useful items that took skill, craft, and artistry. 

We also find Hungarian surnames in Galicia and Polish names in Hungary.

l find that the nobility was intermarrying with nobility of other ethnicities for some time - going the distance to make a good marriage - so today there is some confusion or controversy over who was a Slovak, Polish, Ruthenian, Lithuanian, or Hungarian noble. (And some nobles were also at least partly Italian, Czech, or another ethnicity.) 

One thing you should consider is that a surname might have been changed to be more Polish, more Hungarian, more German - especially note the endings: ski, sky, skyi, szke...

Through time, there were very many incursions, raids, battles and wars fought in Galicia and for it before the Nazi's. This included the Mongols and the Tatars - who took men, women, and children into slavery and marched them into the Ottoman Empire of Turkey. It also included the Swedes, and - contrary to the thought that Poland and Hungary were "always friends"  Ferenc Rakoczi II, Prince of Transylvania, and his army also came into the Podkarpakie area, devastating towns. There were also the Russians coming into Galicia, who are now in war to take Ukraine, as Russia thinks of Ukraine as a historical part of Russia.

On old maps of GALICIA you see the Carpathian mountain range is to the south, running through what is today SLOVAKIA, but was then HUNGARY. The main trade route is from southern "trade route" towns such as Dukla, Poland, through the Dukla Pass around Cergowa, Poland, and into Hungary. Once the whole region was especially significant in the wine business with travel through the Pass into the Hungarian grape growing and wine making region. Some of the Galician market towns had wine cellars for the storage of wine brought up from Hungarian wine country. There was significant trade between Hungary and Galicia of other items as well. This meant that people who identified as Hungarian and people who identified as Polish or another ethnicity were meeting up.

So valuable was this road  through the mountains called the Dukla Pass, because it was the pass with the lowest elevation, the easiest to travel, that many thousands died in World War II trying to control it. As the intention to murder the Jews in Poland became clear, many fled Galicia and came into Hungary. As well, the Carpatho-Rusyn (Ruthenians) were also forced to move by the occupying Germans to other areas than their traditional homeland, dispersing them throughout Poland. Since their homeland included places in Hungary (now Slovakia) some fled there - moving south - rather than be moved around Poland.

Regarding World War II, the Nazi's won. They used the Dukla Pass route to invade Hungary, as one of two major routes into the country. Stories were that one day the people were in the fields and markets and the next they were - gone.

It's a difficult history.

Continue on with this series ....  

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HUNGARIAN STATE OPERA HOUSE in BUDAPEST

Hungarian State Opera House in Budapest, Hungary

Illustration by Dörre Tivadar

SAINT TERESA OF AVILA BODY STILL INCORRUPT : DEAD SINCE 1582

DAILY MAIL SCIENCE: SAINT THERESA OF AVILA BODY INCORRUPT by Niki Main Science Reporter  - Good photos but no you won't see the body in this article.

Science will be applied to determine how it is that the saint's body is so well preserved and also how to keep it that way...

Excerpt:

The Diocese has taken stringent measures to protect the saint's remains, including requiring a total of 10 keys to access her coffin.

Three of the keys are held by the Duke of Alba, another three are possessed by the city of Alba de Tormes and the Discalced Carmelite Father General in Rome has an additional three.

The 10th key - known as the King's key - is also needed to access St Teresa's remains, with three needed to open the outer gate, three to open the tomb and four to open the coffin.

GLORIA : SONATA FOR TRUMPET AND BASSO CONTINUO IN D MAJOR " ALLEGRO

THE AUSTRIAN-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE : GALICIA : CADASTRAL MAPS : HOUSE NUMBERS : GENEALOGY GEN-TIPS SERIES : NEW GENEALOGY SERIES STARTING SEPTEMBER 17th!

THE AUSTRIAN-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE : GALICIA : CADASTRAL MAPS : HOUSE NUMBERS : GENEALOGY GEN-TIPS SERIES

I hope those readers who come to MAGYAR AMERICAN BLOGSPOT for some help with their genealogy will find this series helpful!

Maps were made to define land boundaries and property ownership, often for purposes of taxation, but also inheritance, and to understand where responsibilities began and ended. This can include "zoning" and the proper use of land. Some maps that were made on paper include colored representations of farm land and crops, building, streets and roads, rivers and streams and lakes, mountains and flatlands...

In the previous centuries in which people lived in an agriculturally driven world, and sometimes "off the land," villages sometimes conspired to keep land in the hands of local families where everyone understand who was who and who owned - or rented - what.  Sometimes, in order to do this, marriages were arranged....

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CANNED FRUIT COCKTAIL - OATMEAL SWEET BISCUITS : FOOD BANK RECIPES

 CANNED FRUIT COCKTAIL - OATMEAL SWEET BISCUITS

Slightly Sweet and Pretty Too

Cupcake pans best.  No need to use papers.

The difference between a cupcake and a biscuit is the ratio of wet ingredients, particularly water, to dry ingredients. 

Wet Ingredients:

1 can fruit cocktail (usually mixed fruit that includes peaches, pears, grapes) including liquid.

1 large egg or two small.

Water : about a quarter to half a cup but watch the batter, add water slowly while mixing only if needed. Depending on the brand of fruit cocktail, you may not need to add more water at all. ***

1/4 cup liquid vegetable oil such as soy. (If you do not have oil on hand, plain yogurt can work.)

1/4 teaspoon vanilla or vanilla substitute (Optional. If you use oatmeal cereal packets, the sugar and flavoring spices will change the flavor and you will not need vanilla or to add sugar.)

3 restaurant sugar packets (or about 1 level teaspoon of sugar). The fruit cocktail liquid in the can is likely all the sugar you will need to sweeten the biscuit so this sugar is optional.

Dry Ingredients:

3 cups white flour

2 cups oatmeal (quick cook the best)

1 full teaspoon baking powder

Optional:

Dry almonds. If your almonds seem too hard to easily chew, consider soaking them in clean warm water for ten minutes to soften them up. Walnuts are also good.

Instructions:

Use a few drops of vegetable oil to grease inside the cupcake tins.

Turn the oven on 425 degrees to preheat and plan to work quickly.

In separate bowls, hand mix the dry ingredients and then hand mix the wet ingredients, just enough for the wet to appear like a slurry.

Dump the dry ingredients into the wet and stir the mixture around just enough so it's blended; look at it and add water a little at a time only if it appears that there is excess dry ingredients in the bowl. ***

Stir in almonds.

Spoon mixture into the cupcake tins using a large spoon, careful to make each about the same size so they bake evenly. Makes about 12 to 18 biscuits.

Check the biscuits at about 15 minutes. Touch the top of a biscuit for firmness. It should give just a little and, after cooling, will be firm when done. Do not pierce with a fork like you would a cake. My old oven takes about 20 minutes.

Let the biscuits cool a bit in the cupcake tins before using a large spoon to scoop them out.

The fruit cocktail will allow a delicious and still wet fruit flavor to come through. Good for a desert or a take along breakfast or snack.

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HUNGARIAN CANADIAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION : CALGARY - ALBERTA

Lots of Canadians with Hungarian ancestry.  This club is in Calgary. (There's also a club in Toronto, which I posted about before.  You can bring up posts by clicking on the tag Canada!) 

HUNGARIAN HERITAGE IN CANADA : CALGARY ALBERTA CLUB  Go to this site and you may use it to find a club in another province.

SAINT STEPHEN'S DAY - HOLIDAY IN HUNGARY

 

DFW HUNGARIAN SOCIAL CLUB - FORT WORTH TEXAS : SEPTEMBER FESTIVAL UPCOMING!

FACEBOOK DFW MAGYARS 

September 28th festival in planning..... Say hello to your fellows in Texas!

If you're interested in locating a Hungarian /Hungarian-American club in your area click on the tap Hungarian American Clubs.

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FOLKWORKS : THIS ARTICLE TELLS US THAT ROMANI PLAY TWO KINDS OF MUSIC - FOR OTHERS and FOR THEMSLEVES : JEWISH MUSICIANS AND GYPSY MUSICIANS

FOLKWORKS - TWO VOICES ONE SOUL ONE BODY : ROMANI MUSIC and JEWISH MUSIC  - an excellent article by Donald Cohen who is a book author focused on music of the Balkans.

Excerpt:

There are, in fact, two different kinds of Romani music: that which they create for themselves and that created for their non-Roma audiences. This was true almost everywhere, but even more prevalent in Eastern Europe, and nowhere was this more true than in Hungary.

In mid-nineteenth century Hungary the music so endearing to the hearts of native Hungarians was the urban music created and performed by ‘Gypsy’ orchestras. This music, lauded and imitated by the non-Roma audiences and musicians alike, was referred to as style Hungrois. To be found everywhere, in bars and cafes, and at celebrations such as weddings, christenings and birthdays, this music, which included the popular songs and art compositions of both Roma and non-Roma musicians, was wildly popular not only with the poorer and middle classes but it often had the patronage of the local aristocracy.

In the late eighteenth century, when Hungary was part of the Hapsburg Empire, Roma ensembles were employed to create and perform a new dance music called verbunkos; both the dance and the music that accompanied it were specifically designed to stimulate the patriotism of Hungarian youth, thus luring them to enlist in the Emperor’s armies. The verbunkos began as a slow and rhythmic dance, gradually increasing in speed and intensity to quick, stirring, tempos. It is this musical form that developed in the mid-nineteenth century into the wildly popular czardas of Hungary’s bars and cafes.

HUNGARIANS IN THE 2024 OLYMPICS

I've been watching the Olympics in the evenings quite a bit, but with limited coverage on swimming and gymnastics and running. Although I'm proud of the athletes from the United States, I always feel as if we have an unfair advantage.  Why?  Because other countries fit in a state, such as Hungary (in it's present borders) fits in Indiana, Poland in Colorado, and Ukraine in Texas.

GROUND NEWS : KATRINKA DEMANDS RESIGNATION OF HUNGARIAN SWIMMING FEDERATION

DAILY NEWS HUNGARY KRISTOF MALIK WINS GOLD

INTERNATIONAL OLYMPICS COMMITTEE HUNGARY PAGE

Just a little of the news...

HUNGARIAN GENEALOGY - GENEALOGY PRO TIPS : YES I'M WORKING ON A NEW SERIES OF RESEARCH ADVISEMENTS FOR HUNGARIAN ANCESTRY

I know that some of you look to my Google Blogger, MAGYAR-AMERICAN for Pro genealogy research tips and have been wondering if I will have more for you. The answer is yes and I will probably have the series ready for you in September - October 2024...

Genealogy is one of the ways I began to "own" my Hungarian ancestry. My Hungarian ancestors were part of the great immigration to America during the Industrial Revolution and so have been in the United States since 1892ish... in some branches five generations now. And yes, we have mixed with people from other European ethnic heritages as most Americans do. However, I do feel that in the American genealogy world the emphasis is so much on American roots back to what is now Great Britain and that Hungary is a small nation (which currently would fit into the state of Indiana) is a rather neglected.

I developed excellent research skills and have a working knowledge of what is available. I'll be happy to share with you again, so if you come to Magyar-American BlogSpot for the genealogy please check back with me!

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