Prior to the internet, researching immigrant ancestors was a difficult task. Genealogists had to travel to distant libraries and records offices. They’d send letters to international church archives and […]
FamilySearch.org has the largest collection of genealogical and historical records in the world. If you are researching family history and only using Ancestry.com or MyHeritage, you may be missing out […]
Unless you’re 100% Native American, you probably have some distant cousins living across the ocean. Maybe some of them have taken a DNA test, but you won’t find out unless […]
On January 1, 1923, The SS Hansa became the first trans-Atlantic liner of the year to dock in Manhattan. The ship carried about 1,500 passengers, including 400 immigrants. Most of […]
The geographic location of your forefather’s birth may not be in the same country as it was known a century ago. Maybe he spoke German, but his birth record was […]
“My dad told me I was left on the doorstep of Humboldt and Meinecke.” Lawrence* was trying to recall any additional details about his search for his biological parents. He […]
If you have a Hungarian surname, chances are, when meeting new people, you’ll encounter some variation of the following questions : Whether it’s their baseball coach from middle school, or […]
Hungarian death records from October 1895 through December 1906 have a nearly identical format, regardless of the megye(county) or district(járás). Recorded by the state, and later photographed by missionaries from […]
Most Hungarian birth/baptismal records prior to October 1895 will be found in Catholic Church parish registers. At the time, Hungary was predominantly Catholic, accounting for over 60% of the country’s […]
Prior to October 1895, records of marriages, as well as births and deaths, were held by local church parishes. In the 1960s, the LDS Church, better known as the The […]
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