Sunday, August 05, 2012

Big discovery!!!!

I made a startling discovery today for my wife Joan thanks to the internet. I received a notice earlier that the 1940 U.S. census has been indexed and for a short time free to access. I did some work on my own family tree and then thought I would try to find out more for Joan about her family. Over the last 2 years I've tried different ways to find her relatives but with no avail because she  has so little information.  She was always told by her mother they came from Austria or Germany so I have concentrated my efforts there.

Using the new census I not only discovered she had more aunts and uncles then she was told about but that her maternal grandparents actually came from Hungary, not Austria or Germany. Joan told me that early in her life she heard the name Rigo mentioned but her mother said it had no meaning.  As it turns out, there are several small villages around Budapest that have this name so it is more than likely they came from one of them

This is the thing I like about geneology researcfh.  If you keep looking and looking eventually you will find the answers you need.

I also dicovered today that since I started writing this blog in 2006 I have over 200,000 hits to my blog.

Zrobi艂em wstrz膮saj膮cego odkrycia dzisiaj dla moich dzi臋ki Joan 偶on臋 do internetu. Otrzyma艂em zawiadomienie wcze艣niej, 偶e 1940 US Census zosta艂y zindeksowane i przez kr贸tki czas wolny dost臋p. Zrobi艂em troch臋 pracy na moim drzewie genealogicznym i wtedy pomy艣la艂em, 偶e spr贸buj臋 si臋 dowiedzie膰 wi臋cej o Joannie o swojej rodzinie. W ci膮gu ostatnich 2 lat pr贸bowa艂em r贸偶nych sposob贸w, aby znale藕膰 swoich krewnych, ale bez skutku, bo ma tak ma艂o informacji. Ona zawsze powtarza艂a jej matka przybyli z Austrii lub w Niemczech, wi臋c koncentruj膮 si臋 moje wysi艂ki nie. 

Korzystaj膮c z nowego spisu nie tylko odkry艂a, 偶e ​​mia艂 wi臋cej ciotek i wujk贸w wtedy powiedziano jej temat, ale 偶e jej dziadkowie faktycznie pochodzi z W臋gier, a nie Austrii lub w Niemczech. Joan powiedzia艂a mi, 偶e ju偶 w 偶yciu us艂ysza艂a nazwisko Rigo wspomniano ale matka powiedzia艂a, 偶e ​​nie ma znaczenia. Jak si臋 okazuje, istnieje kilka ma艂ych wiosek w Budapeszcie, kt贸re maj膮 t臋 nazw臋 tak jest wi臋cej ni偶 prawdopodobne, 偶e pochodzi z jednego z nich 

To jest co艣 podoba mi si臋 geneology researcfh. Je艣li wci膮偶 szukasz i patrz膮c w ko艅cu znajdziesz odpowiedzi na swoje pytania.