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     When you research all your families as you crawl back in time,  do you wanderlust about the places they lived in?  Of course, as we go further back, our wish list of  "travel to ancestral home visits" gets longer.

We know it exists. This particular census was called the "Josephine " census because it was the census ordered by Emperor Joseph II of Austria - Hungary to count men for military service [1]  We know that some rolls of it are at the National Archives of Hungary. Some are also at Family History Archives because the Genealogical Society of Utah filmed it in 1970.

According to a Hungarian - English dictionary, komaasszony means the godmother of my child;  komám means godfather of my child.

            Detroit had, at least, 7 churches in one section to serve the new Hungarian immigrants in the 1890's when they flowed into this metropolis. Now, there is one lone church in the vanished Hungarian section of Detroit called Del Ray on South Street.  Holy Cross was one of the newest parishes formed in 1905 for Hungarians that lived in Del Ray.  It is now the only remaining Hungarian Catholic church in the entire state of Michigan . They still conduct masses in the Magyar language. They also have the Epiphany mass (Vizkereszt) this Sunday, 6th January 2012.

     Folks should be aware that the webinar - WIKI FOR GENEALOGISTS - is a great introduction to the way of the Wiki world in genealogy. It really answers many questions about how versatile wiki can be for genealogists. The ideas are endless and so well presented by the wiki genealogist,  Thomas MacEntee.

                  One day while on the Hungary-L  genealogy mailing list, a serious, young man popped in named Nick Gombash.  It was this link to his website HUNGARY EXCHANGE that opened my eyes to realize that we have a great organizer amongst us   -  http://www.hungaryexchange.com/books.  I was so grateful that someone actually took the time to gather all the digital books about genealogy in Hungary in one spot and share them with us. Generosity in it's finest moment.

With the exciting updates of the Hungarian collections at Family Search, many newbie researchers find themselves very confused about WHERE exactly their immigrants hailed from in Hungary.   Perhaps one knows the origins through family traditional stories but did not know that the borders of the country has changed many times in the past 300 years or more ?

There is no one who has been more dedicated to helping others in Slovakian genealogy than Bill Tarkulich.  Many moons ago, when this American girl was doing Yankee research or reading church records in old Irish & German American & Canadian parishes, I knew I had to bite the bullet and swim across the ocean to do my maternal lines & bumping into every Eastern European genealogia I could find, I was lucky to come upon Bill's website.