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This gazetteer is useful because family stories or U.S. census records sometimes give a couple of hints about the town in Hungary where a certain ancester might have come from. More often than not an immigrant will simply name a nearby large city instead of giving the actual town or village. In such cases, help can be found, possibly, under Hungary - military records. (which were archived in Vienna '''''and indexed'''''<i>)</i>. The Hungarian Village Finder database can help us know the name of the district and county so that we might find these on a map, as well as nearby towns and parishes or synagogues. | This gazetteer is useful because family stories or U.S. census records sometimes give a couple of hints about the town in Hungary where a certain ancester might have come from. More often than not an immigrant will simply name a nearby large city instead of giving the actual town or village. In such cases, help can be found, possibly, under Hungary - military records. (which were archived in Vienna '''''and indexed'''''<i>)</i>. The Hungarian Village Finder database can help us know the name of the district and county so that we might find these on a map, as well as nearby towns and parishes or synagogues. | ||
a.) In that we don't speak Hungarian (or Slovakian or German or Romanian) we might sometimes not know which words from the "family stories" are important. A town might be designated "Upper ...." or "Little ...." and we might discard some data | a.) In that we don't speak Hungarian (or Slovakian or German or Romanian) we might sometimes not know which words from the "family stories" are important. A town might be designated "Upper ...." or "Little ...." and we might discard some data because a found place name does not contain those Hungarian words prior to the main word. | ||
b.) Secondly, this Hungarian Village Finder index will list all of the counties which have "Acs," for example. ("Acs" means "carpenter, carpenter's axe, timber." "Banya" or "--banya" refers to the mines. We would expect that several counties would have mines. Just as In Germany there are several villages named "Rosenthal," we see on this Hungarian index that there are more than one county with villages having the same name. (Think about cities in America named "Rochester" and "Utica." Did you know that both New York state and Michigan state have cities with these same names?) | b.) Secondly, this Hungarian Village Finder index will list all of the counties which have "Acs," for example. ("Acs" means "carpenter, carpenter's axe, timber." "Banya" or "--banya" refers to the mines. We would expect that several counties would have mines. Just as In Germany there are several villages named "Rosenthal," we see on this Hungarian index that there are more than one county with villages having the same name. (Think about cities in America named "Rochester" and "Utica." Did you know that both New York state and Michigan state have cities with these same names?) | ||