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| Hi Szuszanna:
The town your cousins moved to was probably Kecskemet as the spelling you wrote is phonetick and when read back sounds just like Kecskemet. Finding relatives lost during the war can be very difficult if not impossible. My grandfather also dissapeared during the war. He was taken by the Germans to a labour camp somewhere in Romania and none of the family could find anything as to what had happened to him. Many people for whatever reasons were shipped to labour camps so it is unlikely many survived the conditions.I recently returned from a trip to Budapest. Finding burial plots or death records can be a problem particularly in big cities. It seems after a certain lenght of time the graves are moved unless a specified amount to 'renew' the locations is paid by the families. My mother and brother died only less than 15 years ago and both had been moved. They had to search through several books before the correct plot number was found and upon looking for it they were again misplaced. It's probably a nightmare trying to find some of the records particularly old ones or anything dating pre or during the last war. I finally found my brother's grave (died in 1995)after traipsing through the cemetary in Jaszbereny district of Budapest, none of the numbers given to me were the correct ones and after freaking out and getting all upset the woman in the office gave me a 'general location' where we spent a whole day searching. I finally found it by chance looking in the completely opposite direction than the 'map' she gave me. My grandparent's graves were gone and the last record had someone else buried there as they were moved. About the only thing you can try is maybe a paper trail but you have to be very persistent and patient. There is no record anywhere of my grandfather on mother's side only his name on the marriage certificate. Some records were put into computers and probably many errors were made. My grandma who died in 1976 was not where she used to be. Immagine my horror when I saw a completely different person buried in her plot! And to make matters worse they couldn't find where she was put after the fact. Im sure probably small towns are a bit different but big cities are another story. Minera | ||
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