Eastern Europe has had multiple border changes, including in the 20th century. And that can impact how records on your ancestors were recorded. It can also mean that vital records you find aren't original and could have information that differs from that on the original.
When my Rutner family was first recorded living in what's now Kolodne, Ukraine, they weren't anywhere near an international border. They were in the middle of Hungary, in the province/megye of Máramaros. But then World War I happened, and Kolodne ended up in the newly-created Czechoslovakia, right on the border with Romania. Close cousins who used to just live a few villages away now lived in another country. One branch of the Rutners lived in what was had been Pálosremete, Hungary, but which became (and still is) Remeţi, Romania.
I had some vital records from Remeţi, which I always thought were a bit odd. Although they were recording births from the late 1800s & early 1900s, when the town was solidly part of Hungary, they were recorded in Romanian. One such birth record registered the birth of an Iloni Ruttner, a second cousin four times removed, and I added Iloni to my tree.
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| Birth Record of Iloni Rutner, Remeţi, 1902 |
