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The Genealogical Society of Utah has microfilmed all the Jewish registers that have been saved in the National Archives in Zagreb and Osijek. Records that were not deposited into the public archives may be in possession of local Jewish communities. In general, theregisters civer the time period from 1850 to 1895, when civil registration of births, marriages and deaths was introduced. Some registers go back to the later 1700s and early 1800s, but it was only in 1787 that Emperor Joseph II ordered the Jews throughout Hapsburg territories to adopt German family names to replace their Hebrew patronyms. | |||
What determined the places where Jewish people lived and their movements? If individual family members have gone on ahead, there was the natural tendency of other family members to follow. For those who eventually settled in Croatia, records suggest that the usual route was from Bohemia and Moravia into the western counties of old Hungary (now in Slovakia and the Austrian Burgenland) and then through southern Hungary into Croatia and Slavonia. | |||
For those who eventually settled in Croatia, records suggest that the usual route was from Bohemia and Moravia into the western counties of old Hungary (now in Slovakia and the Austrian Burgenland) and then through southern Hungary into Croatia and Slavonia | |||
For more information see article ''Researching Jewish Family History in Croatia, Slavonia and Hungary'' by Malcolm Scott Hardy published in AVOTAYNU (Volume XVII, Number 3, Fall 2001). | For more information see article ''Researching Jewish Family History in Croatia, Slavonia and Hungary'' by Malcolm Scott Hardy published in AVOTAYNU (Volume XVII, Number 3, Fall 2001). | ||
Revision as of 11:15, 23 April 2009
The Genealogical Society of Utah has microfilmed all the Jewish registers that have been saved in the National Archives in Zagreb and Osijek. Records that were not deposited into the public archives may be in possession of local Jewish communities. In general, theregisters civer the time period from 1850 to 1895, when civil registration of births, marriages and deaths was introduced. Some registers go back to the later 1700s and early 1800s, but it was only in 1787 that Emperor Joseph II ordered the Jews throughout Hapsburg territories to adopt German family names to replace their Hebrew patronyms.
What determined the places where Jewish people lived and their movements? If individual family members have gone on ahead, there was the natural tendency of other family members to follow. For those who eventually settled in Croatia, records suggest that the usual route was from Bohemia and Moravia into the western counties of old Hungary (now in Slovakia and the Austrian Burgenland) and then through southern Hungary into Croatia and Slavonia.
For more information see article Researching Jewish Family History in Croatia, Slavonia and Hungary by Malcolm Scott Hardy published in AVOTAYNU (Volume XVII, Number 3, Fall 2001).