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Welcome to the JewishGen Hungary Database.  This is a multiple database search facility which incorporates all the databases listed below.  These databases have been contributed by the JewishGen Hungarian Special Interest Group (H-SIG) and individual donors.  The combined databases have more than 1.7 million entries, referring to individuals living in the current and former territory of Hungary — this includes present Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, northern Serbia, northwestern Romania, and Sub-Carpathian Ukraine.  The database is a work in progress and new entries are being added regularly.

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Component Databases:

Census Records:

  • 1828 Hungarian Property Tax Census
    Names of 30,000 Jews owning taxable property, listed in the 1828 Property Tax Census.
  • 1848 Hungarian Jewish Census
    Names of 116,000 Jews in the Conscriptio Judaerum, a survey of Jews in Hungary compiled after the 1848 revolution.
  • Hungary: 1857 Census
    1857 Hungarian Census is distinguished from others because it was conducted for the purpose of counting men for military service.
  • 1869 Hungarian Census
    Names of more than 89,000 Jews, in the 1869 Census, for Abauj-Torna, Bars, Esztergom, Győr, Komárom, Nyitra, Sáros, Szepes and Zemplén counties (some now in Slovakia).
  • Other Hungarian Census Records, 1770-1850
    Names of more than 83,000 Jews, from various census records for the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • Szecseny, Hungary Family Lists
    The collection includes records for the town of Szecseny, Hungary, which is 45 miles NNE of Budapest, and 9 miles NNE of Nyiregyhaza, on the Slovak border.

Vital Records:

  • Hungarian Vital Records
    As of August 2020, 791,088 Birth,Marriage and Death records, from throughout the Kingdom of Hungary.
  • Máramaros Jewish Vital Records
    More than 75,000 birth, marriage and death records, 1851-1895, from former Máramaros megye (now in NW Romania and Sub-Carpathian Ukraine).
  • Sub-Carpathia Jewish Vital Records
    More than 25,000 birth, marriage and death records, 1895-1940, from former Bereg, Máramaros, and Ugocsa megye (now in Sub-Carpathian Ukraine).

Holocaust:

  • Hungarian Holocaust Memorials
    Names of more than 23,000 martyrs, whose names are recorded on Holocaust memorials in 37 communities in Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Ukraine.
  • JewishGen Holocaust Database
    350,000 names from various datasets with information about Hungarian Holocaust victims and survivors.
  • Yizkor Book Necrologies
    75,000 entries from lists of Holocaust martyrs in Yizkor Books for towns in Hungary, Slovakia, and former Hungarian regions now in Croatia, Romania and Ukraine.
  • Yizkor Book Master Name Index
    3,800 names indexed from Yizkor Books for towns in Hungary, Serbia, Máramaros & Transylvania (Romania), and Transcarpathia (Ukraine).
  • Survivors Returning to Sighet and Maramures
    Names of 2,133 Shoah survivors who returned to Sighet and Maramures.

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