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It's the last day of the year, and I thought it'd be a good idea to highlight all the new information added to Hungary Exchange over the past year. Happy New Year! Boldog Új Évet Kivánok! Databases: Hungarian First Names With English And Latin Variations Digital Books: Census & Taxation: Germans & Hungarians: 1828 land census, Vols. 22-25 Family Histories: A history of the Bartay/Bartay von Bártfa-Bartfeld family Family Histories: Az inárcsi Farkas család története Family Histories: Genealogy of the Bathiany, Batthany, Batthyany, Battany etc. families Gazeteer & Geography: Magyarország helységnévtára tekintettel a közigazgatási, Vols. 1-2 History-General: A History of Hungary History-Hungarians in America: A St. Louis és vidéke jubileumi nagyszáma. The fifth anniversary issue of the "St. Louis és vidéke," a Hungarian weekly newspaper. Published in 1918. History-Hungarians in America: Hungarians in America History-Medieval: Az Árp...

The theme of today's tip is:  Neighboring Villages! Today's Hungarian genealogy research tip comes a day after I found a pretty significant discovery in my own family tree. Long have I been a promoter for Hungarian genealogists to check in nearby or neighboring villages for their families. And it continues to pay off. For the past eight years, I have been working on my Szük family from Taktaszada, Zemplén county, Hungary. Ever since, I have been stuck on my 6th-great-grandmother on that line, Zsuzsánna Fekete. I knew her name from the baptisms of her nine children with her husband, István Szük, but no where in the Taktaszada marriage records could a marriage be found. There was also the fact that the marriage records for Taktaszada didn't begin until 1773; their first child was baptized on 27 Dec 1771. Again, there was also the fact that there wasn't a single Fekete family in the Reformed church records at all. Zsuzsánna obviously wasn't originally from Taktasza...