FamilySearch Find of the Day: My Long-Lost Aunt

A few weeks ago, I was doing some indexing and arbitrating for the Hungarian civil registration records on FamilySearch Indexing. To my surprise, it was my great-grandfather's town of Büdszentmihály, in Szabolcs county! Within the first few batches, I came upon a birth record for a Gombás child. I immediately saw the father's name was Gombás Sándor (the name of my 2nd-great-grandfather), but kind of pushed it off the burner thinking I had all the children for my 2nd-great-grandparents. But then I saw the house number Sándor was living in; it was the house number MY Sándor had grew up and lived in! I went down and looked at the mother's name, and there she was.. my 2nd-great-grandmother, Tóth Eszter. I was blown away that I had found a sibling to my great-grandfather that I hadn't known about. I stopped indexing and analyzed the whole record, extracted the information and went and saved the actual image off FamilySearch. To my delight, the record gave mention of the child's date of death and the record number! The two records below are the child's birth record and death record, respectively.

Entry Number: 73
Place: Szentmihályon (in Szentmihály)
Date of Registration: 30 November 1895
Name of Informant: Schwart Fáni
Occupation: Midwife
Residence: Szentmihály
Father: Gombás Sándor
Religion: Evangelical Reformed
Occupation: Farmer
Residence: Szentmihály, House Number 1041
Place of Birth: Szentmihály
Age: 23
Mother: Tóth Eszter
Religion: Evangelical Reformed
Occupation: Homemaker
Residence: Szentmihály
Place of Birth: Tiszadob, Szabolcs county
Age: 21
Place of Birth: Szentmihály, House Number 1041
Date of Birth: 26 November 1895, 9am
Gender: Female
Religion: Evangelical Reformed
Name: Eszter
Notes (bottom):
Schwartz Fáni was the midwife.
Notes (top left):
The child died on 14 December 1895, entry number 47.


Entry Number: 47
Place: Szentmihályon (in Szentmihály)
Date of Registration: 15 December 1895
Name of Informant: S. Nagy Sándor (who is this man??)
Occupation: Farmer
Residence: Szentmihály, House Number 352
Name of Deceased: Gombás Eszter
Religion: Evangelical Reformed
Residence: Szentmihály, House Number 1041
Place of Birth: Szentmihály
Age: 19 days
Father: Gombás Sándor, farmer in Szentmihály
Mother: Tóth Eszter, homemaker in Szentmihály
Place of Death: Szentmihály, House Number 1041
Date of Death: 14 December 1895, 8pm
Cause of Death: Congenital disease
Notes: S. Nagy Sándor was the informant of the death.

FamilySearch Labs - AMAZING!; February 13, 2008

The LDS & FamilySearch have really come a long way since I first began my research about 7 years ago.  They have created a new project called FamilySearch Labs.  The purpose of FamilySearch Labs is to create and showcase new technologies for the genealogy community.  So far they have seven projects available to the public: Family Tree, FamilySearch Indexing, Life Browser Prototype, Pedigree Viewer, Record Search, Research Wiki and Standard Finder.

Of these seven projects, I'm constantly using two: FamilySearch Indexing and Record Search.

FamilySearch Indexing is a great project that allows the genealogy community to help FamilySearch build up their wealth of information, and it aids the researchers too!  Here is the project's description from their website:

"Extract family history information from digital images of historical documents to create indexes that assist everyone in finding their ancestors."

After FamilySearch Indexing has compiled an index for records, it's then taken to the other project that I already use extensively: Record Search.  Here is the project's description from their website:

"Record Search helps you identify your ancestors by letting you search millions of indexed records and by letting you browse images of records that have not yet been indexed.  Quickly you can begin to uncover information about your ancestors that may have required days and or weeks of work."

If you're a member of the genealogy community, I greatly recommend using these great tools.  It'd be great to help with the FamilySearch Indexing project as well.. the quicker records are indexed, the quicker the records will become available to the public!

FamilySearch

FamilySearch Labs

FamilySearch Indexing

FamilySearch Record Search