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From: "Robert S. Helfer" <>
Subject: Re: [HUNGARY-L] Emmigration law, 1904
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 08:59:09 -0600


Anna Staub wrote:

> Read on the net that Hungary passed a law in 1904, regarding emmigration, that
> citizens leaving Hungary had to leave from Fiume/Rijeka, enter at port of New
> York, and travel by Cunard Ship Lines.

I don't know about this law -- my grandfather sailed on a Nord Deutsch Lloyd ship
from Hamburg to New York in 1911. This always struck me as odd, since he was from
the Banat, and Fiume would have been a whole lot closer. I'm not certain about my
grandmother and their five children, who emigrated a year later. I have always
assumed they also went by way of Hamburg, but they could have gone through Fiume.

You asked in a separate message about the Vojvodina. This is basically the parts
of Batschka (Bacs-Bodrog) and of the Banat (Arad, Krasso-Szoreny, Torontal, and
Temes) that went to Yugoslavia at the end of World War I. I believe it includes
most of the former Hungarian county of Bacs-Bodrog and parts of Torontal and
Temes. You can find a good deal of information on this area at the German
Genealogy Home Page (http://www2.genealogy.net/gene/). If you go to the section
on regional research, then go to Areas of German settlement in Middle, Eastern and
Southeastern Europe (Outside the boundaries of the German Empire of 1871), you
will find a list of links under the heading "Historic Hungary". While the focus
is German settlements, there is also a lot of information that would be useful for
anyone with roots in this area.

You could also start at the Federation of East European Family History Societies
(FEEFHS) home page (http://feefhs.org/) and search the Web Site Index for
"vojvodina", "batschka", "bacs", "bacs-bodrog", etc.

There is also a mailing list called . The focus is the Banat,
but there are also discussions relevant to Batschka and surrounding areas. Since
this is a rootsweb list, you can find its archives and subscription form at
http://rootsweb.com/. There is also an edited version of the archives called
"Best of Banat" on the FEEFHS site.

Regards,
Robert

Robert Helfer -

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