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    1. RE: [HUNGARY-L] I am new
    2. Janet Kozlay
    3. I was not able to find your Lawrence in the immigration records either. However, I can point out a couple of things. First, the country of birth recorded in the census records should be spelled CZECHOSLOVAKIA and he was from present-day SLOVAKIA or SLOVAK REPUBLIC (not "sylvocia"). At the time of immigration, the country was HUNGARY. The family appears to have come from the village of Hanusovce, Slovakia. Its Hungarian name was Hanusfalu or Hanusfalva. However, there were two villages by this name in historic Hungary, one in old Szepes county and one in Saros. You can see Hanusfalva in the old map of Szepes county at http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/maps/1910/szepes.jpg in Szepesofalvi District (upper green section). The one in Saros is at http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/maps/1910/saros.jpg in the yellow section and is labeled Tap. Hanusfalu (which stands for Tapolyhanusfalu). The trick will be to discover which is the right one. The RadixIndex (http://www.radixindex.com/placeindex/hanusfalu.shtml) shows both Hrobaks and Piszarcziks living in the village of that name in Szepes in 1891. In addition, in 2003 someone (Mary Ann Hinkle-Ineich) was seeking information about the Pisarczik family from Hanusfalu in Szepes (Spis Hanusovce). See http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/SLOVAKIA/2003-04/1050076901. Her ancestors are no doubt related to the family you are researching. All of this suggests Szepes rather than Saros. In either case, there are church records available through the LDS Family History Centers (Roman Catholic for Szepes and both Roman Catholic and Evangelical for Saros) where you should be able to find these families. According to the 1910 Census, Lawrence immigrated in 1905. (Be sure you don't confuse year of immigration with year of naturalization, as I believe you may have done in a few instances.) However a Hrobak (given name unreadable), age 36, immigrated in 1906 to his brother Lorincz Hrobak in what appears to be Benton, New York. At the time of the 1910 Census, Lawrence and his wife, Mary, had been married for three years, which means they were not married when they immigrated. I have not tried tracing the other family names. Do not be overly concerned with exact dates or ages recorded in the Census records, and you have already noted that there are likely many spelling variations. Janet

    02/21/2006 05:08:53