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In early 1848 Hungarian government ordered a special census of all Jews. The 1848 Jewish census has not survived for all Hungarian counties. These records supply the name of the head of household, wife's maiden name and names of children, together with ages and places of birth, profesisons and length of time an immigrant had been in Hungary or in his 1848 place of residence. | In early 1848 Hungarian government ordered a special census of all Jews. The 1848 Jewish census has not survived for all Hungarian counties. These records supply the name of the head of household, wife's maiden name and names of children, together with ages and places of birth, profesisons and length of time an immigrant had been in Hungary or in his 1848 place of residence. | ||
Number of Jewish registers include | Number of Jewish registers include ''Konskription'', which meant census or enrollment. They are similar to the 1848 census but give actual dates of birth instead of age. | ||
The Hungarian census of 1828 is of considerable interest and importance, although is supplies limited family information. The census covered all of the old Hungary. Under each town or village, it lists all heads of families or occupiers of land. | |||
Taxation records, for the purpose of the imposition on Jews of the so-called Toleration Tax, give the name of the head of the household together with the number of members of the househol in various categories and the amont of tax assessed. | |||
It is not alway clear to which of the nearby communities the few families of Jews in the smaller villages would have belonged. It is important to look carfully in the surrounding communities. | |||
Required format of the Jewish registers was introduced about 1885. Registers were kept in two or more copies or were periodically transcribed so it is necessary to look at all copies available and compare them. Young people, often only in their teens, moved considerable distances away from their birth places and parents in search of work and new homes. They might find spouses in the new communities or return home to find a spouse and then to bring a part or all of their family with them to the new community. | |||
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. | 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. | ||