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From: MTB <>
Subject: [HUNGARY-L] HUNGARY-D Digest V03 #107
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 15:19:43 -0500

>>Bill points to an important connection which was the requirement of
priests to record the first names in Latin at certain times in the 19th
century.
I am sure there were some arbitrary equivalences that were generated for
names
that were Hungarian with no real equivalent.

For a genealogist, the typical equivalence (even if strictly
speaking
wrong) is important to know because it was used when moving out of Hungary.
For
instance, in the residency records of Vienna, you will find Bélas listed
together with the first name Albert, i.e., under the letter A, not B.<<

Not only were priests recording first names in Latin, but they were
required to record a saint's name. Hence, Albert was recorded for Béla, as
it was the saint's name that sounded the closest to Béla.

Maureen Tighe-Brown

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