Budapest civil registration - unofficial users' guide in
English
Why is this included in the Slovak toolbox? The answer is simple, in
1910 in Budapest there lived
20,000 ethnic Slovaks, in that time Budapest was the
largest "Slovak town". The Slovak population of Budapest was
the largest Slovak urban population in Austria-Hungary. Most of them
came to the capital town to work, men worked on constructions and
women worked as maids or in factories. Many of them get acquainted
and married in Budapest and later returned back to their
homes, others remained there.
In Hungary, the civil vital registration started 1st October 1895.
The LDS published the scanned
copies
of
civil
registrations
of Budapest, it is very valuable collection, but it is not
indexed. Volunteers, members of the Radix
Csaladtortenet List coordinated by Dr. Béla Csaba
Hatvany and László Bocsor developed a searchable
index of the marriages and they will continue with births and
deaths.
The start page is temporary unavailable. Switch on
the instant Google translation and click on "MARRIAGES", if it would
not work, click on the HÁZASSÁGOK. You will see the
introductory page (using instant translation) which is
self-explanatory:
You have to be careful with instant translation of the search
results, because Google server tries to translate also the surnames,
e.g. the surname Kovacs will be shown as Smith.
Here is an example of original search result and its instant
translation
Original page
Instant Google translation
This index was done using the first version of the LDS database
published, when according the Hungarian legislation the privacy
protection of marriage records expired after 60 years. Now, in
Hungary this expiration period was extended to 90 years. The Mormons
therefore truncated the record collection and marriages after 1920
are not shown, but in the Hatvany index you still can find them.
Credit is given to Dr. Bela Csaba Hatvany for his kind agreement
with publication of this guide.
