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Subject: [HUNGARY-L] Re: HUNGARY-D Digest V98 #266
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 08:48:55 -0400 (EDT)
The name LENGYEL has appeared many times in the records that I am searching
for my Grandfather parents. I am using the LDS FILM for "Csecs and
Szeszta", Catholic Church Records. This is for Old Hungary, Now Slovakia.
Good Luck, Bill Takacs
>Subject: [HUNGARY-L] NAME: LENGYEL
>I have just discovered that a great-uncle came from Garadna. I find it
>in Borsad-Abauj-Zemplen County. The name was Johan Lengyel and he
>arrived in New York on the Kaiser Wilhelm on April 16, 1891. Does
>anyone know this town? or the name? Can I find anything on Garadna or
>Lengyel in the LDS Family History Center? By the way, this family began
>to spell their name Langor sometime after he was naturalized in the
>1920's. And, interesting to me, at least, is that my paternal
>grandfather was John (Ivan) Lengyel, from Klucarky. WEre they related?
>I don't know. The lived in the same coal patch. One of the John
>Lengyel sons married the daughter of Johan Lengyel. Maybe that is why
>they changed the spelling of their name to Langor. Always questions....
>
>Thanks,
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