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Contents and Addresses of Hungarian Archives : With Supplementary Information for Research on German-Speaking ...
Edward Reimer Brandt

Clearfield

The starting point for researching German-speaking ancestors living in Hungary during the early part of this century, the book at hand contains up-to-date addresses of some 70 Hungarian archives--national, county, religious, and special--as well as a listing of genealogical holdings of various archives as noted in the Guide to the Archives of Hungary published by the Archival Board of the Hungarian Ministry of Culture in 1976. Also included ...

Where to Look for Hard-to-Find German-Speaking Ancestors in Eastern Europe Index to 19,720 Surnames in 13 ...

Clearfield, 2001

This book is a godsend for researchers whose German-speaking ancestors emigrated to Eastern Europe or whose trail cannot be traced to Western Europe. The fact is that thousands of German settlements comprising millions of individuals sprang up in Russia, Poland, and the countries of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century (e.g., nearly 2 million show up in the Russian census of 1897 alone). In ...