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April-May 2016
For those who may be searching for the home town or village of their ancestor, there is a great resource
available online. The maps that are contained in the collection range from about 1904 to about 1926. It is
organized by the county from the Kingdom of Hungary which was part of the Austria-Hungarian Empire which
lasted until the end of the First World War. After this the borders were drastically reduced and some of the
county boundaries were moved. Also some cities that were in Hungary and had many ethnic Hungarians were
now in Romania, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and other countries. There is a larger map at the bottom of the
page that shows you where the counties were in the pre-World War I period, so you can look up the current
location of the city and estimate where it would be on that map and look at the county map. It is an excellent
collection to help understand where ancestors lived and the borders at the time they lived there instead of
looking at modern boundariesYou can find the link to the map collection here:
http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/maps/1910/vmlista.htm
Have you been doing any Hungarian research? Are you willing to write about it? Please
contact us if you are interested in writing an article for the Turul. It could be about a
specific record collection, anything of general interest to our membership, the history
of a city or county, a specific ethnic group in Hungary, or even a recipe for your favorite
Hungarian dish!
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