{"id":351,"date":"2011-08-15T15:57:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T21:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iseeancestors.com\/comm\/?p=351"},"modified":"2011-08-15T15:57:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T21:57:09","slug":"to-grandmothers-house-we-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/2011\/08\/15\/to-grandmothers-house-we-go\/","title":{"rendered":"To Grandmother’s House We Go"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Adelheid<\/a>
Adelheid "Ida" (Pohl) Stewart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I recently noticed FamilySearch.org<\/a> added more Hungarian records.\u00a0 I quickly found a new lead in the search for the birthplace of my grandmother, Adelheid “Ida” (Pohl) Stewart<\/a>.\u00a0 She immigrated to America in 1893 when she was but 2 years old along with her mother and two older siblings.\u00a0 They departed from Hamburg, Germany, where the ship’s manifest listed them as living in F\u00fcnfkirchen, Hungary.<\/p>\n

I found two index entries in the\u00a0Hungary Catholic Church Records<\/em> at FamilySearch.org.\u00a0 Both are baptismal records.\u00a0 One is for Lipot [Leopold] Pohl and one is for Maria Pohl, the two older siblings of my grandmother Adelheid Pohl.\u00a0 Unfortunately my grandmother does not appear in the index.\u00a0 But, it does indicate the family was living in Szabolcs, in the county of Baranya, Hungary (see map <\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>).<\/p>\n

\"F\u00fcnfkirchen,<\/a>
Map showing F\u00fcnfkirchen (P\u00e9cs) in 1892. Szabolcs is to the northeast.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Szabolcs, today named Mecsekszabolcs, is very near P\u00e9cs, Hungary.\u00a0 P\u00e9cs was also known as F\u00fcnfkirchen by the Germans.\u00a0 It would have been Austria-Hungary at that time.\u00a0 These baptismal records are therefore consistent with the Hamburg manifest.\u00a0 More importantly, it tells me the specific church records in which I hopefully will find my grandmother’s baptismal record.<\/p>\n

My great-grandfather Albert Pohl, immigrated in 1892, one year prior to his wife and children.\u00a0 (See my earlier post, Genealogy at the NOAA<\/a>.)\u00a0 He settled near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and worked as a coal miner.\u00a0 Szabolcs was also a coal mining district.\u00a0 I assume he worked as a coal miner in Szabolcs before coming to America.\u00a0 He probably chose Pittsburgh because he had coal mining experience and thought he could easily get a job.\u00a0 Perhaps friends and relatives in America wrote letters back home describing the opportunities available in Pittsburgh. In the map below, the locations of mines are indicated by crossed hammers. <\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Map<\/a>
Map showing P\u00e9cs, Hungary in 2003. Mecsekszabolcs, formerly Szabolcs, is to the northeast.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Whenever more records become available in an online collection, it pays to search again for your ancestors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently noticed FamilySearch.org added more Hungarian records.\u00a0 I quickly found a new lead in the search for the birthplace of my grandmother, Adelheid “Ida” (Pohl) Stewart.\u00a0 She immigrated to America in 1893 when she was but 2 years old along with her mother and two older siblings.\u00a0 They departed from Hamburg, Germany, where the … Continue reading “To Grandmother’s House We Go”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":309,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,54,9],"tags":[56,104,57,55],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hungary","category-maternal-ancestors","category-surname-pohl","tag-funfkirchen","tag-hungary","tag-pecs","tag-szabolcs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}