Hungary Obituaries

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Obituaries

Hungary Funeral Notices 1840-1990 are now available online through the FamilySearch.org.

• used to notify family and friends of a death and served also as an invitation to attend funeral sermon
• somewhat vary in the information provided
• represent only a fraction of Hungarians who died during the inclusive years, there are approximately 459,000 people represented in these cards
• the earliest notice is from the year 1803 and the latest notices are just a few years old
• not just from the area of Budapest, but all parts of the historical Kingdom of Hungary are fairly represented, including Slovakia, Croatia and Romania
• while some are in Hungarian, many are in German, Croatian, Romanian, Slovak, with some French and Italian
• sometimes written in 2 languages, and there are also some, that are printed both in the Roman and in the Cyrilic alphabet

A wiki article describing this collection is found at:

• Hungary Funeral Notices - FamilySearch Historical Records