I am new to this SIG, but am making a cameo entry only. I wish to know whether any members have concrete evidence of ancestors who arrived in Hungarian villages or towns >from Bohemia/Moravia following the institution of the Familianten Decree in 1726. This Decree froze the Jewish population in Bohemia and Moravia at a certain number of families and granted 'Familianten status' to these families by which only the eldest son was permitted to marry. Historians claim that this decree resulted in the forced migration of additional sons in each family >from the territories of the Crowned Lands and that many found sanctuary in Hungary. Do Hungarian records of individual families indicate the village or town of origin in Bohemia/Moravia allowing verification of such emigration between 1726 - c. 1782?
I have mid-18th c. family records in Bohemia indicating births of a number of sons (no first names were given except for the eldest son). Any possibility of tracing them is close to nil (I have only the village of birth and the name of the father, without a patronymic). I have no evidence that any went to Hungary, but then I have no evidence at all of there whereabouts.
I apologize if this has been discussed in the SIG archives (not sure what title to give it)
