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From: Frank Kurchina <>
Subject: Re: [A-H-MILITARY] Military Record of Janos Deak
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 12:11:39 -0600
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Danny and JoAnne Eberhardt wrote:
>
> Hi, Frank!
>
> That's a very informative message you posted! I had heard before about the
> "Grundbuchblätter"; but I haven't had any luck getting these or other
> Austro-Hungarian military records of my father from the Vienna War Archives.
> All they say is that the records for the WWI period were sent to the
> succesor nations into which Austria-Hungary was divided. I suppose my
> father's records were sent to Romania, because his birth village is now in
> Romania; but I have been told it'd be extremely difficult, if not impossible
> to get them from Romania, if by any chance they preserved the records. I
> also know that he lived for a very short time in Budapest, prior to WWI, and
> that he served in Klosterneuburg (near Vienna) at some time, during the war.
> What do you suggest?
>
> Danny Eberhardt

Danny,

The Ellis Island Records (NYC) 1892-1924 list 786 surnames
Eberhardt who emigrated to the U.S.

Over 51 million people had lived in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The two largest ethnic groups were Germans (10 million) and Hungarians
(9 million). There were also Poles, Croats, Bosnians, Serbians,Italians,
Czechs, Ruthenes, Slovenes, Slovaks and Romanians.
Overall, fifteen different languages were spoken in the former
Austro-Hungarian Empire.

After WW I (1918), Austra-Hungary, one of the largest countries in
Europe in the 19th century, was split into many countries (Austria,
Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland, Italy, the Soviet
Union etc.)
When talking about the people of Hungarian nationality it meant that at
least 50% of the Hungarians became citizens of countries other than
Hungary (Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, Austria)

Grundbuchblätter
It is crucial to know which regiment the ancestor served in ?
http://www.polishroots.org/austrian_garrison.htm

The Wien War Archives URL I listed was out of date.
The correct URL is below.
http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/AUT/krainf-e.htm

Now the Romanians don't care for their Hungarian minority nor for
westerners.
As a result you can't get access to their archives.

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