Transcript Hungarian Special Interest Group

Hungarian Special Interest Group
2005 Report
Mission
JewishGen's Hungarian Special Interest
Group (H-SIG) is for those with Jewish roots
in the area known as "greater Hungary" or
pre-Trianon Hungary and covers all those
areas that were once predominantly
Hungarian-speaking. This includes all of
present-day Hungary and Slovakia and lands
that are now within Romania, the Ukraine,
Austria, Croatia, Bosnia, and Serbia.
Leadership
Vivian Kahn, Coordinator [email protected]
Carol Robinson, Research Coordinator and
Acting Webmaster [email protected]
Alfred Klein, Treasurer
[email protected]
2005 Accomplishments
•H-SIG is unique in that all of our projects are
accomplished by volunteers (rather than paid
transcribers)
•We published the Holocaust Memorial,
Marriage and Death Databases.
•We updated the H-SIG website with new
information
Activities
•H-SIG listserve
•Transcription projects to support the All
Hungary Database
All Hungary Database
History
Date
AHD Status
7/2002
First communication from Vivian
3/2003
AHD published with 45,000 records
12/2003
125,000 records
4/2004
AHD 1 yr old with 140,000 records
12/2004
195,000 records
3/2005
AHD 2 yrs old with over 240,000 records
All Hungary Database
Current Databases
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1828 Hungarian Property Tax Census
1848 Hungarian Jewish Census
1869 Census
Other Hungarian Census Records, 1795-1850
Hungarian Births, Marriages and Deaths Databases
Holocaust Memorial Database
Who’s Who in Budapest
Yizkor Book Necrology
JewishGen Holocaust Database
All Hungary Database
Current Databases Cont.
• JOWBR:
– Hungary (Gyor, Eger, Kisvarda)
– Slovakia (Presov, Dobra, Kosice, Vranov nad
Taplou)
– Transcarpathia (Munkacs, Ukraine)
– Transylvania (Sighet, Romania)
• Vranov Transport Lists
• Jewish Names in Selected U.S. State
Department Files
Census Projects
Type
Coordinator
1828 Census
Eric Bloch
[email protected]
Robert Neu
42,000/65,000
[email protected]
None
16,000/40,000 (10,000
unpublished)
None
11,328/11,328
1848 Census
1869 Census
Other Census
# of records transcribed
June 2004/June 2005
22,800/29,000
Holocaust Projects
# of records transcribed June
2004/June 2005
Book of Maramaros added in
Yizkor Book None
2005
10,000/17,000 (4,000
Carol Robinson
Holocaust
caroljr@alamedanet unpublished)
Memorials
.net
Type
Coordinator
Vital Records Projects
Type
Coordinator
Birth Records None
# of records
transcribed June
2004/June 2005
9,634/12,000
Marriages
None
1,000/2,000
Deaths
None
1,000/4,000
Future Projects
Ready for Volunteers
• Ungvar Pinkas
• ROM-SIG 1848 Census
Records (non-FHL)
• Formal 1869 Census
Project
• Nyirbator Chevra Kadisha
Membership Records
Future Efforts
• Megye Hungarian Census
Teams
• Additional Cemeteries for
JOWBR
• Additional Yizkor Books
Needs
• More Coordinators
• More transcribers always welcome
• A webmaster to redesign the website and
keep it up-to-date
• Ongoing financial support for JewishGen