There are two things about the name that I noticed. Firstly, Tomas is not the way that Hungarian spells the name that is Thomas in English. In Hungarian it is Tamas. I suspect that Tamas became Tomas

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The word "commorirt" means committed. The Toleration Patent of 1781 allowed all Jews to practice trades, earn university degrees, and to enter service in state offices. Presumably those in Maria There

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Dear Margarita, Two of the people in the full regimental photo have epaulettes. In the armies following the British army system this would indicate that they are officers, as would the peaked caps. On

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Thinking about my earlier reply, I keep wondering whether in 1922 the newly formed Czech Army had any Hungarian speaking regiments. If so, it would explain the curious aspects of the uniforms. If your

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Frank is correct that the writing is Hungarian so it would be the Hungarian army and it is most likely that the 19 year old is doing his compulsory military service. There are, however, unusual aspect

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The "i" or "y" ending in Hungarian usually indicates 'from'. I thus read your name as from Heml. It is most likely that when your male ancestor was required to take a surname, he or his father had com

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I make 398 to be: 2 January 1941 1 January 1941at 4:45am Samuel Spitzer Religious duties, Israelite A deceased unknown The late Ferenc Spitzer The late Cecilia Engel Budapest 13th district, 33 Szabolc

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I make 399 to be: Jakob Brull, Son of Moses and Josfa. Lawyer. Varna, in the megye of Trencsen, male, married, 48 Cholera, 29 January 5pm, Hospital of the IXth Barracks, Kobanya new cemetery 31 Januar

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The 10groschen postage stamp on the card was issued in 1929. Tom Beer Melbourne, Australia

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https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.k._Gendarmerie If you use Google chrome as your search engine then it will automatically translate the German to English. It was a military rank entitled to 3 stars. To

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Just to agree with most people. I was surprised to find that my great-grandparents (originally from Galicia but then living in Budapest) had a synagogue wedding in Vienna in 1905. They already had fou

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I did a Google search in German and then used Google Translate to find the following. It may be relevant that the Palace that is mentioned now houses the International Institute for Applied Systems An

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And it is unreadable because the image is too small. Tom Beer Melbourne, Australia

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Dear Vivian, That URL is just the homepage. More navigation instructions are needed the find the digitised archives. Their search function did not find them - just books that mentioned yellow star hou

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A number of unusual things here that I have not seen before: 1. The name is also given in Hebrew script. 2. Hermán is given in the German rather than in the Hungarian as Armin. Many records switched i

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I partly agree with Eva. My great-great-uncle Abraham Lob Beer, born in Moravia in 1858 has Beer in the birth register entry, but is indexed as Bär in the register index. (I hope that the umlaut shows

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My Hungarian great-grandmother Katalin was known as Kati for short. No idea what her Hebrew name was. Tom Beer Melbourne, Australia

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I think that: " If you come across a page in which all or part of the text is in another language, just right click on your mouse and you should have the option to click "Translate to English" -" only

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Google automatically translated for me. Google Chrome has a "translate" button that allows you to choose automatic translation of a web page. The URL proved enormously useful. I found my great-uncle's

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Herman Fabian seems unsure of his birth date. He may be equally unsure of where he was born. I think that Gross Gevitz translates as Big Joke. Tom Beer Melbourne, Australia.

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