To John Bhend - I suggest you try marriage and baptism records from here in the U.S. for your ancestors as a source of the city/village they came from. Catholic church records I have requested from U.S. dioceses that were for the late 1800s to the…
Hello Marianne,
I was wondering if your Szabos have any connection to the Mertes family who emigrated from what was then Hungary but has bounced around between Czech and Romanian control as well as Austrian.
My great-great-grandparents had a…
Amy - what time period are you seeking German records from Poland? If you are talking the 1800s, and know the village, you can look up what microfilms are available at familysearch.org. I'm in the process of viewing films for what…
According to a family tree on Ancestry.com Gottlieb's mother was Henriette Blaesing. He and his wife Amelia were cousins. They were married 22 Mar 1877 in Berea, OH. They had 4 children: Frederick Gottlieb, Clara Emilie, Martha Louise, and…
For Helen Pust: Family Search.org has several August Pust listings. Some are in Germany, the others are the 1900 and 1910 Census which put him in Illinois. You should be able to tell from the names of the family members if this is "your"…
Translation in Slovak, English and Hungarian for Slovak Church Records:
http://homepages.bmi.net/jjaso/
This will help you see if the location does in fact include a house number.
This should also be of…
What else do you know about August? Wife's name? Death date? Age at death? Children's names? Ancestry.com has numerous August Schade's who lived in Texas, including a WWI draft registration card for a Henry…
Hi, Cecelia - if your ancestors lived in Cleveland, you have a great resource at the website for the Cuyahoga County Archives.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohcuyah2/
There you can look up marriages, deaths, obituaries, probate records,…
I was wondering if your Szabos have any connection to the Mertes family who emigrated from what was then Hungary but has bounced around between Czech and Romanian control as well as Austrian.
My great-great-grandparents had a daughter, Catherine Mertes, who had a daughter named Mary with a man named Albert Szabo in Buffalo, NY or Hungary sometime in the late 1800s or early 1900s. We don't know if Albert and Catherine were ever married, but Catherine's parents, Karl and Mary Mertes, wound up adopting Mary sometime in the early 1900s and she was known as Mary Mertes by the time of the 1920 census of the area. She's not in my direct line, as I'm actually descended from Catherine's brother Joseph, but I am very curious to learn what I can about this mysterious relationship.
Hello Marianne - I am in Australia and I have a friend by the name of Michael Szabo. He is from Hungary - Debretzen - if that's is the correct spelling. His father was shot while waiting in a line-up for some bread when Michael was two years old - his mother's name was Juliana David. There were three other siblings and then his mother took an orphan under her wing and raised her along with the family. Michael escaped with his life while the communist regime were shooting at him and others as they swam the river to escape to Austria and eventually came to Australia (mistaking it for Austria) in about 1956. On his behalf - where do I start trying to look? I think the family was Presbyterian and his mother passed away in 1975, having never seen her son again. I would appreciate any tips you might have and I also question if there could be a connection between yourself and his family, I believe Szabo is quite a common name in Hungary.
Yours sincerely
Lee Tsakalos
GUNNEDAH NSW 2380 AUSTRALIA
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