Hi Tom, Good questions. :-) I should start by saying that the few family members left knew nothing about John's parents. There were whispers that John may...
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HFR100
hfr100...
Apr 9, 2012 11:54 pm
That 1720 database is marvelous and very interesting to compare the listings from the 1715 . In a hurry to figure out (because of the holiday week ) but what...
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HFR100
hfr100...
Apr 9, 2012 11:55 pm
I see that not necessarily land- owners are " taxed " . Quite a few Zseller ( day workers ) or tenant farmers being taxed . Would "zsellérek"; fit that...
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htcstech
whiteox_nelson
Apr 10, 2012 11:26 am
Hello Magda, That is a good question. It gets very complicated and there is no easy answer. In my readings, the estate owners (like Eszterhazy etc) didn't pay...
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htcstech
whiteox_nelson
Apr 10, 2012 11:26 am
nemes means noble adozok means tax payers I think extraneusok - people the tax officials found. libertinusok - would include no-tax payers as they were...
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William C. Wormuth
senzus...
Apr 10, 2012 8:24 pm
My Grandmother told me that Jewish people were given the task of tax collection by the monarchy. she said it was done so that the monarchy would not be...
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Sue Martin
orowan
Apr 10, 2012 8:33 pm
That's interesting. My family is Jewish, and I have always had the impression that they were relatively poor. Certainly not tax collectors, most of them. ...
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Robert Pollak
rjp4053
Apr 10, 2012 8:50 pm
I have hit a dead end in research on my great grandfather Samuel Pollak. Here is what I know about Samuel Pollak * He was born to Samuel Pollak and Anna...
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John
johnqadam
Apr 10, 2012 9:27 pm
What religion? Whichever you checked, he may be in the other....
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htcstech
whiteox_nelson
Apr 10, 2012 9:54 pm
Perspective should be appreciated. Before the moderators shut this thread down, I should say that according to my readings (circa 1835), the Jews were of the...
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tom geiss
tomfgurka@...
Apr 10, 2012 10:20 pm
Bob, With regards to the name "POLLAK" I have a page from a passenger list of "THE TRAVE", a ship that landed in America in the year 1889. There is a "AMALIA...
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htcstech
whiteox_nelson
Apr 11, 2012 12:25 am
There is a Pollak listed here: http://www.radixindex.com/hu/adatbazisok/1/vezeteknev/pollak/megye/szep as Samu -in the trade directory. The town Kezmarok is...
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Nick
nikolaih2001
Apr 11, 2012 2:05 am
... I don't understand the point of this post, unless it is a historical explanation of anti semitism . How can collecting tax for the king make you rich? Are...
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Nick
nikolaih2001
Apr 11, 2012 2:06 am
... Ditto Nick Regards Nick...
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CurtB
curtbocha
Apr 11, 2012 3:46 am
Vilo, Your grandmother may not have been prejudiced, but was certainly quite mistaken. The Habsburg monarchy never hired Jewish tax collectors. Some Jews...
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William C. Wormuth
senzus...
Apr 11, 2012 5:29 am
1. Where is the manifest from 2. does it detail: last place visited closest contact. 3. If detailed copy and send to me, senzus@... In Slovakia as...
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William C. Wormuth
senzus...
Apr 11, 2012 5:39 am
Historically we are all affected. In the Family tree search it could be very important. Most people here have never done an in-depth study of European...
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Nick
nikolaih2001
Apr 11, 2012 5:56 am
Vilo, thanks for your blessings. I did not say I thought you were anti Semitic. I just did not understand the purpose of the post. Unless it was to point out a...
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William C. Wormuth
senzus...
Apr 11, 2012 6:50 am
I apologize for writing long messages on a particular subject not entirely Genealogical. I have started a post On Slovak-World after Nick reminded me we...
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htcstech
whiteox_nelson
Apr 11, 2012 11:18 am
Hello All, There is an online book of lists of official individual name changes published in 1895. The foreword is in Hungarian, but the rest is a list of...
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JohnS
johnsofranko
Apr 11, 2012 1:49 pm
First of all, thanks to everyone once again for finding any and all information. Now, with a starting point, I am able to make even more progress. Since my...
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tom geiss
tomfgurka@...
Apr 11, 2012 3:03 pm
I don't know why, or how, but somehow it's no longer on my computer; and I don't have scanning ability. I do seem to recall HAMBURG being the port of entry?? ...
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Frank R Plichta
frank_r_plichta
Apr 11, 2012 3:29 pm
Don't give up on the ship named Kaiser Wilhelm. Ship names are reused. My father traveled in 1920 on the Baltic. When I went to the Mariners Museum in...
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Bernardine Weigand
deanniew@...
Apr 11, 2012 3:51 pm
True Frank, there's a few with Kaiser Wilhelm in the name, as I discovered when researching my grandmother. She arrived here on Kaiser Wilhem der Grosse. And...
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Bill Tarkulich
smitko2
Apr 11, 2012 6:46 pm
Sorry, I just saw this string and this may have been gone over alreadyy. \ "Back in the day" , before internet, me and many others relied on ship registries...
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Elaine
artseppaa
Apr 11, 2012 11:37 pm
Vilo, Thank you so much for the explanation of how churches handle space in their cemeteries, which is understandably limited. When I searched ancestral...
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Ron
amiak27
Apr 12, 2012 12:49 am
I have seen historical refrences to the Jews being tax collectors. Obviously that includes not all or defines wealth. Two other facts that would enter into...
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Michael Mojher
mgmojher
Apr 12, 2012 1:03 am
Jane, Sorry about the delay. My monitor went out last Friday and I didn’t get back up and running until a few hours ago. The 2005 Spisska Nova Ves telephone...
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htcstech
whiteox_nelson
Apr 12, 2012 1:10 am
Currently in Hungary, a grave is given 25 years before removal. If the family pays a fee, then the grave and grave marker is retained for another 25 years. ...
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HFR100
hfr100...
Apr 12, 2012 9:36 pm
Dear Peter - Thank you for this trick in scrolling through the images on the 1720 pages . I have been slowly collaborating my church records findings with the...
