Hi Gigi,
This is the translation of the last message of Szatvanyi:
“I noticed in passing that some years ago we deciphered the texts of the three photographs. That’s why I wrote that we are old acquaintances.
After the war [WWII] the Soviet authorities collected the Church registers and moved them to the civil status registry offices. Recently I heard that in the past year they took them also from there and moved them somewhere. I don’t know if this information is correct. In the archives of Beregszász [Beregove] should be the second copies of the registers, but only beginning with 1828. If there are to be found also the second copies of the registers of Alsóremete [Nyzhni remety], I don’t know. I don’t use to go to the archives of Beregszász and I don’t know anybody who could research there. If Gigi has some relative in Beregszász, that one could look into any archives, and could try also to see at the church of Alsóremete if the registers are still there. There are cases when they hid the registers from the authorities and thus remained at the church until today”
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