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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.

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.

     Find yourself scratching your head on where to begin looking for your Hungarian roots in America? Are you lost among the digital church records and google maps of Slovakia?  Puzzled by where your Hungarian relatives may have attended church or lived to find  their records ?  Own a record you can not read ? HUNGARY EXCHANGE FORUM, headed by Nick Gombash, is a great resource for Hungarian genealogy.