I recently discovered the town in Hungary where my grandmother was probably born prior to the family emigrating to America in 1893. (See my earlier post, To Grandmother’s House We Go.) That town was Szabolcs, now known as Mecsekszabolcs. It is located just northeast of Pécs, Hungary.
Until now I’ve been able to get by researching my ancestors by reading records written in German, French and Latin. Hungarian records will be something new to me. First things first. How do I even pronounce Szabolcs?
I found a great website, Forvo.com. It’s a place you can hear words pronounced in their native language. If a word isn’t there, you can make a request for it. Individuals from all over the world, like yourself, volunteer to pronounce words in their native tongue. I highly recommend it to genealogists.
As for Szabolcs?
Szabolcs
Author: Mike
By way of background, I have over forty years experience as a software engineer. I enjoy genealogy as a hobby, which I started in earnest in 1994. I've always liked family history. Now whenever I uncover some fascinating fact about an ancestor, I also take time to read about that era in history. Whether it be the Napoleonic Wars, the Erie Canal, Steamships, the Port of Hamburg, or hurricane tracks, there's always something new to learn.
By 2000 I published my family tree on the Internet. Unfortunately there were no software tools then that did precisely what I wanted. So I created GED-GEN, a Windows program to automatically generate a genealogy website. It converts a GEDCOM data file to a series of web pages in family group sheet format. Since 2002, people from all over the world have used GED-GEN for their websites.
Today I continue to research my family history, with the help of distant cousins. I am also actively creating digital images of my collection of genealogical evidence.
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