Hungary, Jewish Marriage Records from Various Counties, 1800-1914

This database contains information on marriages from various towns in Hungary from 1800 to 1914. It is compiled by the JewishGen Hungarian Special Interest Group and is transcribed from microfilm copies of original records. The microfilm copies are located at the LDS Family History Library. The original records were created by rabbis in each community (or for small communities, in centralized district registers) as required by the Emperor. These records are handwritten in German, Hebrew, or Hungarian.

The database includes the following fields:

• Name — Surname and Given Name of the bride and groom


• Date of Marriage — Marriage Date of the Bride and Groom: Day Month Year


• Age — Ages of the Bride and Groom


• Father — Father’s Given Name – the first name of the fathers of the bride and the groom


• Mother — The Given Name and Maiden Name of the mothers of the bride and the groom


• Town — The Town where the marriage took place


• Jaras / Meyge — The District and County of marriage


• Comments — Other useful information in the record, such as names of witnesses, or the bride and/or groom’s town of birth


• Source — LDS Microfilm Number, used to order the microfilm from an LDS Family History Center, or other source


• Record Number — The purpose of the record number is to aid in finding the original record on the microfilm or other source of vital records. We are now standardizing on the format PPP-NN, where PPP represents the page number within a film, or volume, and NN represents the item number on that page. Some older records may have the system YYYY-N (where YYYY = the year of the record and N = the record number from that year associated with the record) or simply the number associated with a record for small towns.

Contents of the Database:

There are about 12,500 records in the database to date, including the following. Miskolc is the only town still in the process of being transcribed.