Jozsef Szabo (Hungarian, born June 12, 1888, Csikvánd, W. Hungary)
Esther Himodi (Hungarian, born Feb 2, 1892, in or near Csikvánd, W. Hungary)
Lajos (Louis) Pektor (Hungarian, born March 21, 1891, Csikvánd, W. Hungary)
Lydia Veisz (Hungarian, born Nov 6, 1897,in or near Csikvand or Malomsok, W. Hungary)
Kazimierz Stodolski (Polish/German, born 1878, Galicia)
Antonina Andrewnak (Polish, born 1885, Galicia)
Michael Zygmunt (Polish, born ~1888, Russberg, Austria)
Stefania Klaczak (Polish, born 1892)
If you think you might be related, drop me a line. I have some additional names going back 3 more generations, e.g. Csorkoly, Varga, Farkas, Csik, Asbolt, Loce, Polgar, and Meszaros.
The bustling metropolis of Csikvánd covers 14.53 square kilometers in the Hungarian county of Gyõr-Moson-Sopron. It's a bit north of Pápa, which is actually in the next county. As of 1995, the population was 300 women and 286 men. The village flag is shown below.
I am told Lydia Veisz came from a neighboring village. Malomsok perhaps? Malomsok is next to Csikvánd. In 1995, the population was 653. Louis and Lydia listed it as their residence on a 1921 voyage through Ellis Island, though they had just been visiting. They were in the US for the 1920 census.
My Polish ancestry is much harder to trace, as I never knew any of my great grandparents personally and have few records to go by. I think Kazimierz was half German and from Krakow or the area. Michael Zygmunt's immigration papers apparently say Russberg, Austria, although my grandmother told me he was from Danzig (Gdansk).
I've tried to list ethnicities as opposed to country of origin, which would be rather imcomplete as most of my family came from Austria-Hungary, a.k.a. the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a.k.a. The Habsburg Empire. This political and cultural union existed for many centuries in one form or another.
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