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From: nhallas <>
Subject: Re: [HUNGARY-L] Palugyay
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 10:22:47 -0400
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Hello Denise -

You can save yourself a lot of time before you go to Hungary. Since you are very
new, I am wondering if you have yet had the opportunity to learn about the Family
History Centers of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints. Because
genealogy is very important to the Mormons, they have collected a huge amount of
information. They have filmed many records from Hungary back to the 1600's.

There is a main library in Salt Lake City, the Family History Library (FHL).
Around the country there are Family History Centers(FHC) based at church sites.
These can be found in the phone book. Also they are listed at the FHL web site,
which is www.familysearch.org. If you haven't been there you should go there and
explore the offerings. If you know the locality in Hungary you need, you can look
it up on the web site and see what they have. If they have microfilms you will
probably be able to go to a nearby FHC and make arrangements to rent the
microfilm and read it when it comes into the center.

Others on the list can tell you more about direct dealings with archives in
Hungary. I haven't gotten that far, yet.

Nancy

wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am very new to geneology and am learning a lot very fast. Finding things
> on the internet is very time-consuming, though - there is SO MUCH to read and
> learn! I am researching my maiden name right now because there are not many
> with it in the United States and I thought that would be easier to start
> with. (My mother's maiden name is Taylor, from England, and they are a dime
> a dozen and I thought that might be more difficult.)
>
> I am looking for information for Palugyay, or Palugyai. I have ordered FOIA
> records from Social Security for my grandfather and ggrandfather and am
> waiting a reply, then I know I will have to go to Hungary to go any further
> back. It is said in my family stories that my ggrandfather left a wife and
> children in Hungary, then came to the US and married again and had a second
> family.
>
> I have also found Palugyay (5 of them) from Hungary on the LDS site (from the
> 1600s). I guess where I go from here depends on where my ggrandfather was
> born.
>
> Any suggestions, anyone? There are phone listings in Hungary (20 of them)
> for Palugyai, but I don't speak Hungarian and I thought it would be very
> nervy of me to assume they speak English and just call up out of the blue.
> There are addresses, so I might write if I decipher how to address the
> envelope.
>
> Thanks for letting me share here,
>
> Denise

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