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Over 1,200 marriage records for the Evangelical and Roman Catholic parishes of Nagy-Várad, Bihar county, Hungary ( present-day Oradea, Bihor county, Romania ), have been added to the Hungarian Marriage Project  at Hungary Exchange . Nagy-Várad was the capital of Bihar county and in 1880 had a population of over 30,000 people. At that time, the population in Nagy-Várad was about 87% Hungarian and about 7% Romanian. You can find more about this history of Nagy-Várad/Oradea here . The Evangelical records date from 1827-1915 and are comprised of 491 marriage records. The Roman Catholic records date from 1889-1910 and are comprised of 748 marriage records. Work is currently in progress to index the Reformed marriage records from 1853-1908. Contributions and donations to Hungary Exchange will help make even more records available.

944 new marriage records spanning 1788-1833 have been indexed and added to the Hungarian Marriage Project at Hungary Exchange . These marriage records are for the Roman Catholic parish of Jánoshida in Jász-Nagy-Kun-Szolnok county, Hungary. Thank you to Dániel Gerhát for taking the time to index and contribute these records to Hungary Exchange! If Hungary Exchange and the Hungarian Marriage Project in particular have helped your research in any way, consider volunteering your time to index and make more marriage records available! I will provide you with everything you need from the indexing templates and marriage records to index. Feel free to contact me if you're interested! nickmgombash@yahoo.com

510 new marriage records spanning 1857-1900 have been indexed and added to the Hungarian Marriage Project at Hungary Exchange . These marriage records are for the Roman Catholic parish of Öttevény (sometimes spelled Eöttevény) in Győr county, Hungary. If Hungary Exchange and the Hungarian Marriage Project in particular have helped your research in any way, consider volunteering your time to index and make more marriage records available! I will provide you with everything you need from the indexing templates and marriage records to index. Feel free to contact me if you're interested! nickmgombash@yahoo.com

711 new marriage records spanning 1852-1908 have been indexed and added to the Hungarian Marriage Project at Hungary Exchange . These marriage records are for the Roman Catholic parish of Vitnyéd (formerly Vittnyéd), in Sopron county, Hungary. If you haven't done so already, make sure to submit your surnames and villages to the Surname Database to aid in connecting with others researching the same surnames or villages as you.

1,020 new marriage records spanning from 1809-1895 have been indexed and added to the Hungarian Marriage Project at Hungary Exchange . They are for the Greek Catholic parish of Bács-Aranyos in Szabolcs county, Hungary. This was a rather large parish, as it presided over eleven  villages! The villages are as follows, and all are in Szabolcs county apart from the last two in Bereg county: Bács-Aranyos, Cserepes-Kenéz, Gyüre, Kis-Varsány, Kopócs-Apáti, Lövő, Lövő-Petri, Nagy-Varsány, Pap, Tisza-Kerecsény and Tisza-Vid . If you haven't done so already, make sure to submit your surnames and villages to the Surname Database  to aid in connecting with others researching the same surnames or villages as you. Happy Thanksgiving to those in America!

It's been a busy month for adding new marriage records to the Hungarian Marriage Project . Six new parishes have either been created or updated and over 1,500 marriages have been added. Here's a list of the new marriages that have been made available:

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...

Some new resources were added to Hungary Exchange during the month of March. I was able to transcribe and upload marriages for the Hungarian Marriage Project, made a substantial update to the Digital Books collection and also added a few surnames that fellow research have submitted. Here's a quick summary of everything added this past month: Digital Books For the Digital Books database, I added the following categories:  Biographies, Family Archives and Family Histories. Please note that although the majority of these books are in Hungarian, you can very easily search the book your family's surnames or towns. You never know what you'll find! If you know of any Hungary-related Digital Books online that are 100% viewable and free from copyrights, please let me know! Hungarian Marriage Project I transcribed and uploaded marriage for three (3) parishes this month. They are the following: Dör, Sopron County Roman Catholic church 1805-1895, 783 marriages Gáva, Szabolcs...