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Slovak Heritage Festival in Pittsburgh - 02 Nov 2014

New Marriage Records Added in January 2014

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:

Hungarian Genealogy: Research Tip #4

The theme of today's tip is: Hungarian Churches in America! As any genealogist with European ancestry knows, or should know, it's that church parish registers are the most important records in the aspect of family history. No matter when they arrived in America, whether it was the turn of this past century in the early 1900's through Ellis Island, the 1880's through Baltimore, Maryland or even the 1600's to the colonies, the most important records to continue further research are church records. These church records documented the baptisms, christenings, marriages and deaths of our early family, and if you're lucky the presiding clergyman was very anal-retentive about the details in the records. That very anal-retentiveness, or lack thereof, could be the reason you have absolutely no leads on the next generation of your family or it could very well give you clues and hints to the next generation. Today, I'm going to highlight the First Hungarian Reform...