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August 29, 2025 at 10:34 pm in reply to: Treasures in Boxes: Things I have found in my home and the homes of others… #3712
Liz,
Thank you for sharing your family history. You are lucky to have so many photos! All I have is an old letter, some mail receipts and a photo or two of my great grandfather and my Dad in Connecticut in the late 40s. But, I followed advice from genealogists to ask Aunts, cousins, etc to see if they had anything. I didn’t expect they did, but I asked anyway. It turned out that when my great grandmother died in 1970, my cousin helped her Dad empty out their house. She had a box that contained their passports, Declaration of Intention paperwork, the blueprints for their house, travel paperwork for their trip back to Hungary in 1938, letters and more. Luckily I photocopied everything in 2001 before I sent the box back to my cousin because now she isn’t able to find the originals!Good advice to eat something before watching your presentation! It all looked delicious. I didn’t grow up eating Hungarian food but have tried making a few recipes from a cookbook. Hungarian food made by Hungarians would be much better!
August 27, 2025 at 11:33 pm in reply to: Introduction to Ethnic Hungarian Minorities with Emese Latkóczy #3508Thank you. This was a very informative presentation. I was a little familiar with the problems in Transylvania, but didn’t know about the problems in the other surrounding countries. I believe my ancestors came to Hungary from Slovakia to repopulate the villages in the early 17th century. From something you said in your presentation, I am now wondering if those ancestors had originally been living in Hungary but had been pushed north into Slovakia by the Turks.
August 27, 2025 at 10:17 pm in reply to: Hungarian Wall Cloths: Art from Household to Museum with Joyce Corbett #3496Excellent presentation, Joyce! I have one passed down to me from my Hungarian great grandparents. It is 26″ x 34″ and depicts a man and woman in traditional dress in a rural scene with a village in the background. The wording says: Beautiful you are, beautiful you are Hungary. More beautiful than the whole wide world”. My great grandmother came to the US in 1905, visited Hungary in 1938, and lived until 1972 so I can’t even guess when she got it or if she embroidered it herself.
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