My grandfather’s family was from Gortva-Kisfalud, Dárnya, and Dobocze, all in Gömör megye.
My grandmother’s family was from Vámosújfalu, Erdőhorváti, and Bodrogolaszi, all in former Zemplén megye. Grandparents were raised in Dayton, Ohio.
Surnames are Becedis, Bene, Biro, Bosvai, Darabos, Dosa, Janik, Karczag, Kovács, Mathabey, Oravecz, Sipos and Vincze.
My mother’s father was from Tiszako’ro’. her mother was from Fergyarmat. I visited fergyarmat in 1966.
My father’s father was from Herna’dve’cse and his mother was from Garadna.
My husband was from Sarkad and came to the USA in 1956. I have been back to Sarkad many, many times. It is amazing to see the changes that have taken place from a small village with adobe houses with thatched rooves to modern homes with air conditioning since I first went in 1965.
Yes and I have visited one of them. My maternal great grandparents,grandmother and her siblings were from AbaujTorna, Ináncs, Csóbad, Pere, Abauj-Ker. My grandfather came over , his brother also came from Szabolcs- Szatmar. The villages were Kekcse, Kisvarda, Szabolcsveresmart. Agard -my great grandmother and Roszaly-puszta my great grandfather. Before I knew the area , I was told grandma was from one side of the Tizsa river and grandfather from the other side.
Yes. My grandmother was born in Turzovka which is in Trenscen and now part of Slovakia. When she was born it was a part of the Austro-Hungarian empire in Hungary.
My grandfather was born in Tamasi which is in Tolna in Hungary and has remained as such through all of the wars and border changes. I know that before he emigrated, he lived in Kaposvar.
My husband was born in the former country of Czechoslovakia, now Ukraine, of Hungarian parents. We married in 1962, visited this part of Ukraine many times. He served as the Pastor of The First Hungarian Reformed Church in Cleveland, Ohio from 1986-1989.
He was the founder of Sharing America’s Resources Abroad, SARA, in 1988. SARA is an ecumenical medical mission of the Heartland Conference of the UCC, the Hungarian Calvin Synod is still a part of this major denomination.Our son, a family dentist and his family live in Palhaza.
My grandparents and parents were from Győr. All of my relatives still reside there. Only my parents escaped in 1956. My parents Stibinger, János (born 1924) and Albrecht, Edit (born 1929) escaped to Vienna in October, 1956 and arrived in Cleveland, OH in March, 1957. We have been to visit many times and are going in a few weeks!
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