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Category: Interpretation
Approval Date: 12/19/2021 11:30 AM
Family Surname: Cohn
Country: Hungary
Date of Image: 1910

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Can anyone tell what was added in small print above the word "Hungary" in this 1910 census for Leon Cohn and family (line 19 and following)? It looks like it might say "Servia" but present day Serbia is far from where the family lived before coming to the U.S. (Balassagyarmat) and I don't know if a country called Serbia existed in 1910. Was there a town in the area called Servia? Or what else might it be? Thank you for your help.

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12/22/2021 3:53 AM

"Serbian" ?
See, for example, Wikipedia
"The Serbs in Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarországi szerbek, Serbian: Срби у Мађарској / Srbi u Mađarskoj) are recognized as an ethnic minority, numbering 7,210 people or 0.1% of the total population (2011 census).[1] The number of Serbs in Hungary has drastically diminished; in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries large Serb communities existed throughout Hungary, notably in Buda (western Budapest), Baja, Szentendre and Szeged. The Serb community in the territory of present-day Hungary has its origin in migrations from the territory of medieval Serbian states during and after the Ottoman conquest of these states. Matthias Corvinus and his successors are known to have welcomed Serbs from the other side of the Danube, giving the exiled military commanders fiefdoms to rule and defend from the Ottomans. After the dissolution of Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1918 and after new borders were defined by the Treaty of Trianon in 1920, only a small fraction of ethnic Serbs remained within the borders of post-Trianon Hungary.[6]" [continues]

12/23/2021 7:14 AM

Though I am no expert, it appears to be the language spoken. Notice that other entries on the same page include Swedish for an immigrant from Sweden, Danish for an immigrant from Denmark, and Russian for an immigrant from Poland.

12/24/2021 2:14 PM

It seems my previous post may not have appeared. Though I am no expert, it seems that the Census taker indicated the foreign language or citizenship of the listed people. For example on the same page, a person from Denmark is identified with the word Danish, and a person from Sweden is identified with the word Swedish. For the people from Hungary, this may indicate their language, or possibly their citizenship or birth place.

On unrelated 1910 US Census record, the words "Hun. Slovenian" appear. This appears to be good addition to that year's census.

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