Planning a day trip in July to Sopron from Vienna to see the town where my mother grew up. I have no living relatives there that I know of, but I would like to locate the graves where my grandparents and others are buried. I would like to try to locate the grave sites before I arrive. The church has a website but it is in Hungarian and I don't see an English link. Does anyone know how I can obtain this information?
Posted by
Magyarország / Rep of Texas
20458 posts
You could use something like Google Translate to translate the website. Machine translations from Hungarian to English are sort of sketchy but generally intelligible.
If it were important to me I would hire someone like:
http://www.agnesniemetz.com/ or http://www.hungariantranslation.com/ I used the second one once many years ago.
I would also arrange for native Hungarian speaker to help me when I was in Sopron. For that I would suggest; http://www.guideinbudapest.com/ or maybe one of these http://bestbudapesttourguides.com/en/choose_a_guide-page-3/
Good Luck
Posted by
alameda, ca, usa
2693 posts
I just did a similar thing last week, took the train from Budapest to the town of Tata in the northwest, where my mother's family came from circa 1899. I wasn't exactly hoping or expecting to find living relatives, mostly just wanted to see it and didn't do much research besides googling the family name, but I did spend a good hour wandering the temeto (cemetery) and eventually found a couple of graves with our name of Katona that will be useful for more in-depth research.