Genealogy Find Of The Day: Baptism of My Great-Grand-Uncle, Albert Dudash

For a while now, I've been doing the blogging theme of "FamilySearch Find Of The Day", highlighting new finds I stumble upon and discover for my family tree. I came across a great find today on Ancestry.com and I came to the conclusion I could change the title of my theme: Genealogy Find Of The Day.

Today's "Genealogy Find Of The Day" highlights the baptism record of my great-grand-uncle, Albert Dudash. He was married to my great-grandfather's sister, Elizabeth "Betty Gombash". Below is an extract and image of the record:

First Hungarian Reformed Church, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Entry Number: 96

Date of Birth: 01 November 1908

Date of Baptism: 07 November 1908

Name of Child: Albert

Gender: Male

Legitimacy: Legitimate

Father: Dudás György, csömöri szül. (born in Csömör), ref. (Reformed), bányász (miner)

Mother: Diószeghy Juliánna

Residence: Whitsett, Pa

Sponsor: Fazekas István

Sponsor: Bóczán Jánosné (Mrs. János) szül. (born) Gyüre Erzsébet

Priest: Kalassay Sándor

FamilySearch Find Of The Day: Zsa Zsa Gabor's Maternal Aunt

Today while browsing through the Budapest marriage records in district VIII, I stumbled upon the marriage record for one of Zsa Zsa Gabor's maternal aunts: Rozália Tillemann.

Zsa Zsa Gabor was the daughter of Vilmos Gábor and Jancsi Tillemann, a family of Jewish origin who are from Budapest, Hungary. Below you'll find the document and extract of Jancsi Tillemann's sister's marriage in 1923. You'll notice that Zsa Zsa's father was actually a witness to the marriage!



Entry: 1334
Place of Marriage: Budapest, District VIII
Date of Marriage: 07 October 1923

Groom: Rein Manó
Occupation: nagykereskedő (wholesaler)
Religion: Izr. (Izraelita; Jewish)
Place of Birth: Budapest
Date of Birth: 26 October 1895
Residence: Budapest District VIII, Ér street 2
Father: Rein Schnierl
Mother: Marcusson Breine

Bride: Tillemann Rozália, elvált (divorced)
Religion: Izr. (Izraelita; Jewish)
Place of Birth: Budapest
Date of Birth: 05 October 1898
Father: deceased Tillemann Jóna (Jósza) Hersch
Mother: Reinharcz Chave Feige

Witness: Heltai Simon, Budapest District VI, Rózsa street 71
Witness: Gábor Vilmos, Budapest District IV, Muzeum boulevard 31

FamilySearch Find Of The Day: Anna Weishaupt's Baptism in 1868

With the recent update to the FamilySearch database "Czech Republic, Church Books, 1552-1935", I was able to obtain a copy of my 2nd-great-grandmother's baptism record. The following are an image and extract of that record:

Date of Birth: 06 May 1868, 9a.m.

Date of Baptism: 07 May 1868

Place and House Number: Graber, Number 64

Name of Child: Anna

Religion: Catholic

Gender: Female

Legitimacy: Legitimate

Father: Weishaupt Josef, häusler in Graber N. 64; son of the deceased Franz Weishaupt, häusler in Graber N. 64 and the deceased Anna Maria, daughter of the deceased Josef Müller, häusler in Johnsdorf N. 28.

Mother: Maria Anna, daughter of the deceased Franz Kasper, feldgärtner in Graber N. 90 and Maria Anna, tocther of the deceased Josef Reichenbach, gärtner in Graber N. 4.

Sponsor: Anna Hesse, daughter of Anton Hesse, (occuptation unknown) in Graber N. 6.

Sponsor: Anna Weishaupt, daughter of the deceased Franz Weishaupt, häusler in Graber N. 64.

Sponsor: JOhanna Hackel, daughter of Josef Hackel, (occupation unknown) in Hermsdorf N. 33.

Sponsor: Josef Führich, son of Franz Anton Führich, (occupation unknown) in Graber N. 22.

Sponsor: Josef Petters, son of Ignaz Petters, feldgärtner in Johnsdorf N. 22.

The Family Tree of Tim Tebow, Quarterback of the Denver Broncos

If you know me well, you know I have a hobby of picking up and researching random celebrities' family trees. I've previously researched and posted about Aaron Rodgers, quarterback of the Green Bay Packer and also Lady Gaga.. far many more not publicly posted about. So when I began researching into Tim's family, I was pleasantly surprised at the wealth of information I was able to find.

 I began with some public data: his name, date or birth and the names of his parents. I was able to easily find the marriage record for his parents (12 Jun 1971 in Alachua County, Florida) and then found the birthdays for both of his parents from the Public Records databases on Ancestry.com. Knowing that Tim's father was a Junior/II, I figured finding Tim's grandfather under the same name would be easy enough.. and boy was I right! What I found when I entered their full name (Robert Ramsey Tebow) was Tim's grandfather's application into the SAR.. the Sons of the American Revolution! You can find the images to the left (part 1) and below (part 2). These two documents hold a wealth of information that Tim's grandfather knew and had researched, obviously with the help of the publication "The Hayes Family, Origin, History and Genealogy", by Royal s. Hayes. Tim's grandfather had researched his roots back to the Revolutionary veteran, Captain Joseph Hayes.

Have you researched into Tim Tebow's ancestry?

What interesting things did you find? :)

My Christmas Genealogy Wish-List

Dear Santa & his Elves at FamilySearch,

I've been a good boy this year, giving aid to researchers left-and-right; from strangers to fellow geneabloggers. I know this to only be a wish-list, but please consider my list and hopefully some will come true and appear on your website, in the year-to-come! For each request, I will describe one good genealogy deed I have done in the past year. I will only request three specific things... because i'm not greedy, of course! :-p

1. Hungarian Church Records
I have helped countless fellow Hungarians who contacted me by email, find out more about their Hungarian heritage. I helped them to determine where in Hungary their family was from and the next proper steps to successful research.

2. German Church Records
I had stumbled upon a blog post by fellow geneablogger, Randy Seaver, and was able to quickly find out information to aid him in his search. He even made a post about it here, and a subsequent post here.


3. Polish Church Records for Barycz and Osobnica; even on microfilm!
I helped a member of the Society of Genealogists (SOG) based in the UK, to create a course on Eastern European research. The course will begin in January.

20% Off Sale on Professional Services at Hungary Exchange!

I'm happy to announce that during the month of November, i'm offering a 20% off sale on my professional services via Hungary Exchange. The 20% discount will be taken off the grand total at the end of all research conducted. To be entitled to the 20% discount, customers must pay the retainer fee before the end of November. This offer cannot be used on existing projects and it ends on November 30, 2011. Contact me if you have questions of any kind.

If you're interested in my professional services, please take a look at my page here. Quotes on projects are, as always, free and I can easily be contacted at my email address: nickmgombash@yahoo.com.

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - The Ancestors GeneaMeme

I'm a day late with this post, but here is my response to this week's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun! Here are the rules and such: 


1)  Participate in the Ancestors GeneaMeme created by Jill Ball on the Geniaus blog.

2)  Write your own blog post, or add your response as a comment to this blog post, in a Facebook Status post or note, or in a Google+ Stream item.

The Rules:

The list should be annotated in the following manner:

Things you have already done or found: bold face type
Things you would like to do or find: italicize (colour optional)
Things you haven’t done or found and don’t care to: plain type
You are encouraged to add extra comments in brackets after each item 

The Meme:

Which of these apply to you?

1.  Can name my 16 great-great-grandparents

2.  Can name over 50 direct ancestors

3.  Have photographs or portraits of my 8 great-grandparents
4.  Have an ancestor who was married more than three times
5.  Have an ancestor who was a bigamist (my great-grandfather was a wonderful man *rolls eyes*)
6.  Met all four of my grandparents (half passed away before I was born)
7.  Met one or more of my great-grandparents (my g-grandma Sylvia!)
8.  Named a child after an ancestor
9.  Bear an ancestor's given name/s (very distant, yes.. but nothing close)
10.  Have an ancestor from Great Britain or Ireland (my mother's surname is!)
11.  Have an ancestor from Asia (I am a descendant of Attila the Hun.. and I can prove it, too!)
12.  Have an ancestor from Continental Europe
13.  Have an ancestor from Africa
14.  Have an ancestor who was an agricultural labourer
15.  Have an ancestor who had large land holdings
16.  Have an ancestor who was a holy man
17.  Have an ancestor who was a midwife
18.  Have an ancestor who was an author
19.  Have an ancestor with the surname Smith, Murphy or Jones (actually... I don't believe I do)
20.  Have an ancestor with the surname Wong, Kim, Suzuki or Ng (maybe, considering my descent from Attila the Hun and his Asiatic ancestry!)
21.  Have an ancestor with a surname beginning with X
22.  Have an ancestor with a forename beginnining with Z
23.  Have an ancestor born on 25th (my 3rd-g-grandfather James A. J. Costilow & 6th-g-grandfather Christian Schneider)
24.  Have an ancestor born on New Year's Day 
25.  Have blue blood in your family lines (my great-great-grandmother was of Hungarian nobility, and is a descendant of a daughter of King Béla IV of Hungary)
26.  Have a parent who was born in a country different from my country of birth
27.  Have a grandparent who was born in a country different from my country of birth (two great-grandparents were born in Hungary and Poland, though)
28.  Can trace a direct family line back to the eighteenth century
29.  Can trace a direct family line back to the seventeenth century or earlier
30.  Have seen copies of the signatures of some of my great-grandparents
31.  Have ancestors who signed their marriage certificate with an X
32.  Have a grandparent or earlier ancestor who went to university
33. Have an ancestor who was convicted of a criminal offence (ooohhh Hiram Howell....)
34.  Have an ancestor who was a victim of crime (again.. ohhh Hiram Howell.. he was murdered)
35.  Have shared an ancestor's story online or in a magazine
36.  Have published a family history online or in print
37.  Have visited an ancestor's home from the 19th or earlier centuries
38.  Still have an ancestor's home from the 19th or earlier centuries in the family (I would love to buy the Hays Rodgers home in Mississippi)39.  Have a family bible from the 19th Century
40.  Have a pre-19th century family bible