All posts in Hungarian Emigration

The story of Hungarian emigration: why millions left the Kingdom of Hungary between 1880 and 1914, where they went, the 1956 refugees, and how to find your emigrant ancestor.

How to find your Hungarian immigrant ancestor: passenger manifests, naturalization records, censuses and church records—and how they reveal the ancestral village and religion.

What Ellis Island records reveal about Hungarian immigrants, how to search passenger manifests for the home village, and the truth about the name-change myth.

How Hungarians left Europe: Fiume (Rijeka), the Kingdom of Hungary’s own seaport, plus Hamburg, Bremen and Trieste, and what the journey was like during the great migration.

How Hungarian immigrants built community in America: national churches, fraternal societies, newspapers and neighborhoods like Cleveland’s Buckeye Road—and the records they left.

The story of the 1956 Hungarian refugees: how some 200,000 fled after the crushed revolution, where they went, and how to research a fifty-sixer ancestor’s records.

How the Treaty of Trianon left millions of ethnic Hungarians beyond Hungary’s borders without emigrating, and what it means for your genealogy and possible citizenship.