Hello Rita, You mention the name Juhasz which was the magyarized (spelling?) version of my great grandparents name of Schaeffer (I would use the little a with the two dots but that sometimes doesn't show up correctly in e-mail). My maiden name was Keller--that was the name of my ancestors when they first arrived in Hungary. Later, that name, too, was magyarized to Pinczés (hope the e shows as an accented letter). When my father and others from the town of Semlak arrived in the US (all entering as Pinczés) they changed their name back to the German version of Keller. Here are other names that, (according to Familienbuchen), were magyarized (hopefully the accents and umlauts will print as I want them): German Hungarian Frittman Béke Hirsch Szarvas Keller Pinczés Müller Molnár Rossinger Rozsa Schäfer Juhász Streck Nyuito Weber Takács Weissenacher Fehé Teller Tanyér Rose Mary Keller Hughes W Henrietta, NY -----Original Message----- From: Rita Schiwanowitsch Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 7:09 PM To: donauschwaben-villages@rootsweb.com Subject: [DVHH] German-Hungarians - Nationality vs Citizenship‏ Oops... I guess I'll correct myself this time. The correct term to identify these settlers is Schwove, not Schwaben (although some use it interchangeably). I found people with names such as: Flanjak, Juhasz, Balogh, Amerjan, Andresz, Martini, Antoni, Katics, Kovacs, Milosovic, Stanivits.... along with other "Germanic"sounding names such as Beck, Müller, Hübel, Mergel, Jerger. These people were all treated by Germany and Jugoslavia as Schwove, and by each other. If you would have asked any of them in 1944 what "nationality/ethnic group (I will used these together at this point in time) they belonged to..... they would have called themselves German, Schwove, Volksdeutsch. But their last names do not support it. Nor do the church records of 1766. So, hence my identity crisis. RitaColorado, Jabuka, Bistritz ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com