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| Dear Diane,
The Hungarian name for this place is Egeg, and the Slovak (Czechoslovak) is Hokovce. At the end of WW1 Austria-Hungary was dissolved, some of its parts became Austria, some Hungary, some parts formed a new country (Czechoslovakia), while other parts went to other countries (like Romania) etc. So, what was Egeg in eg. 1900, the same was known as Hokovce in the 1920s. I'm not sure how Slatina comes into the picture. There were a couple of places that had Slatina (or Szlatina) in their names, but none of them are close to Egeg - Hokovce: http://www.radixindex.com/cgi-bin/hn1913.cgi?place=egeg http://www.radixindex.com/cgi-bin/hn1913.cgi?place=latina It's possible that your grandpa worked in Budapest on weekdays, and on weekends, to make some extra, he worked at lake Balaton. On this MapQuest map you can observe the distance between Budapest and Egeg - it makes sense that Budapest was in 2 days walking distance from Egeg: click for the map. There is a red star in the NW section of the map pointing to Egeg. As for the surnames (Balog or Balogh and Varga) they are both very frequent in Hungary: Varga is at #7, Balogh is at #12 of the most frequent surnames chart: http://www.bogardi.com/gen/g021.htm Church records, the primary sources of genealogy research in Austria-Hungary, were taken from local churches to regional archives in Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). You might be able to do research in the B/M/D records in a regional archives close to Hokovce. Which one? I'm not sure. Hope this helps. Janos Bogardi | ||
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