{"id":373,"date":"2011-08-15T16:28:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T22:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iseeancestors.com\/comm\/?p=373"},"modified":"2011-08-15T18:38:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T00:38:33","slug":"pronunciation-is-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/2011\/08\/15\/pronunciation-is-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Pronunciation is Key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently discovered the town in Hungary where my grandmother was probably born prior to the family emigrating to America in 1893.\u00a0 (See my earlier post, <a title=\"To Grandmother's House We Go\" href=\"http:\/\/iseeancestors.com\/comm\/2011\/08\/15\/to-grandmothers-house-we-go\/\" target=\"_blank\">To Grandmother&#8217;s House We Go<\/a>.)\u00a0 That town was <strong>Szabolcs<\/strong>, now known as Mecsekszabolcs.\u00a0 It is located just northeast of P\u00e9cs, Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>Until now I&#8217;ve been able to get by researching my ancestors by reading records written in German, French and Latin.\u00a0 Hungarian records will be something new to me.\u00a0 First things first.\u00a0 How do I even pronounce Szabolcs?<\/p>\n<p>I found a great website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forvo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forvo.com<\/a>. It&#8217;s a place you can hear words pronounced in their native language. If a word isn&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>As for Szabolcs?<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"wpaudio\" href=\"http:\/\/iseeancestors.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Szabolcs.mp3\"> Szabolcs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently discovered the town in Hungary where my grandmother was probably born prior to the family emigrating to America in 1893.\u00a0 (See my earlier post, To Grandmother&#8217;s House We Go.)\u00a0 That town was Szabolcs, now known as Mecsekszabolcs.\u00a0 It is located just northeast of P\u00e9cs, Hungary. Until now I&#8217;ve been able to get by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/2011\/08\/15\/pronunciation-is-key\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pronunciation is Key&#8221;<\/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":[58],"tags":[104,55,105],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-websites","tag-hungary","tag-szabolcs","tag-websites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","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=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}