Hello everyone! I am new to this group and I thought I would present my search as soon as possible. I love family history and I am trying to figure out exactly where my dad's side of the family is from. My great-grandparents, John Fuchs (born Sept. 29, 1877) and Theresa Shoppr (born July 15, 1881), came to the United States around 1914. The information that they told our family is that they were from Austria-Hungary, and they told us the cities they were born in (Slotanik and Katschmier). However, those spellings are probably not accurate because they are spelled how they sound. On their immigration papers it said that their race was German but their nationality was Hungarian. (They spoke both German and Hungarian.) Recently, someone told me that they might have been Donau Schwabens. I'm not sure how long they would've been in Hungary...obviously long enough to become Hungarian citizens. John and Theresa moved to Ohio when they came here and they continued to speak German in their home with their children. (My grandfather, the first to be born in the US, didn't speak English until he went to school.) The only thing I know about my great-grandparents' parents is that Theresa's mom's maiden name was Meier. Anyhow, that is what I know so far. I have no idea of their exact travel dates, ship name, towns they lived in, church(es) they belonged to, etc. ~Malori Fuchs