Researching Your Donauschwaben Family Tree

Select records to search . . .Organize what you already know about your family Place this information on a Pedigree Chart and family group sheet Copy new information onto your pedigree charts/family group sheets DVHH Pedigree Chart Printout Start with yourself and work back in time Decide what you want to learn or obtain about your family . . . Choose an ancestor Identify a question (Born? Married? Died? Parents? etc.) Who? Where? When? Select records to search . . . Where to search (Home, National Archives, LDS Family History Center, County Courthouse, State Archives/Health Department, etc.) Vital Records (Birth, marriage & death records), & Census Deeds, wills, naturalization, ship passenger list, passports, obituaries, church/cemetery records, headstones. Heimat, Familien & Ortssippenbuchen (family town books) Church records of Austria Hungary (1826-1895 available from LDS) Deutsch Ungarischer Familien Kalender  (German Hungarian Family Calendar magazines). Reference Information Where do I start? The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1993, #2(32916).Reference Information:[Where do I start? The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1993, #2 (32916)]. Vereinigung der Donauschwaben e. V. Trenton, NJ Courtesy of Dennis Bauer.

Uncle Willy was Hieronymus Or, Creating a Name Authority File for Family History Research

Excerpts from Correspondence With Pastor Ronald Lommel

Surname changes in Hungary 1800-1893 KlimoTheca digital library has now made the pages of Zoltán Szentiványi’s Hungarian surname change book available online.  

Last updated: 08/03/2025