If you have family from what is now Zakarpattya Oblast, Ukraine, or from the areas immediately bordering (including towns in Romania, Slovakia and Hungary), there is an incredible newly-online resource available. There are records for both Jews and non-Jews in this collection. The predominant languages in the records are Hungarian and Slovakian, but there are also documents in Ukrainian, Yiddish, German, Romanian, and possibly more. I'll talk about where these are from, the types of documents I've found so far, how to best navigate these records to find your family members' documents, as well as how to deal with records in foreign (to you) languages below.
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| Statement for Mendel Rutner (my 1C3R), as an industrialist, 1939 (page 2). This second page asks for the paternal and maternal grandparents for both himself and his spouse. It also asks for their children's dates of birth |
