Hi Anthony, My ggm Mary Szabo was born 1885 in Beregszasz/Beregovo. When she was born the city was Hungarian, but the Ukraine still has her records. I went through the rigamaroll of trying to get an official copy of her birth record (even though I have all of the information), as an experiment to see if I could get even that. Thus far I have heard nothing. If you wish to try to obtain your father's birth record, the official website of the Ukraine in Washington, DC is an easy find with a google search. The information to receive a birth certificate is there -- they don't make it at all easy. There is also this website: http://genealogy.iatp.org.ua/eng/ I haven't tried using their service yet. I would be interested in hearing your experiences with trying to obtain records from the Ukraine. > From: Anthony Finta <anthony@finta.com> > To: HUNGARY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Beregovo/Beregszas birth certificate > > Hello everyone, > Well - we finally had a trip to Budapest (in > November) that was > aborted after only a couple of days due to my > father's health. I > didn't really get to find much out about the things > I wanted to. I am > left with trying to obtain his birth certificate now > from afar. Major > problem is that he was born in what was then and > what is now Ukraine > - but he insisted his whole life that he was > Hungarian. Ethnically, > he is - but legally - I am not sure, and he has no > idea either and > the memories are not coming back. If he was in fact > born in Beregovo > in 1929, do I need to be going to the Ukranians to > try to obtain his > birth certificate? > > Anthony __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com