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Contents

BOOK 1.

INTRODUCTION
1. How the research began
2. How the research was done
3. General observations about our ancestors
4. Various ancestral statistics and information
5. Discussion of the contents and structure of what is presented here
6. Acknowledgements

GENEALOGY REPORT
Family and research photographs
Generation 1
Generation 2
Generation 3
Generation 4
Generation 5
Generation 6
Generation 7
Generation 8
Generation 9
Generation 10
Generation 11

Name index of direct ancestors
Appendix 'A', Family Tree, 1-11 generations
Appendix 'B', Church Records
  A-J
  K-K
  L-S
  T-Z

BOOK 2.

INTRODUCTION

APPENDIX 'C', BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Kopper, Carl Borom
Kopper, Franz I
Kopper, J. Georg
Kopper, Johann I
Kopper, Mária V
Kopper, Mathias
Ott, Andreas
Ott, Joseph II
Scharinger, Joseph I
Tunner, Martin
Tunner, Paul
Vitzthum, Bercel Rezső
Vitzthum, Johann II
Vitzthum, Lujza
Vitzthum, Mária
Vitzthum, Rudolph

APPENDIX 'D', PUBLICATIONS & MAPS
History of Altdorf bei Nürnberg
How Christianity came to the Nürnberg area
Budapest Notes by Lajos Schmall
Burgher Book of Buda & Pest
House Owner List of Buda, 1873 & 1882
Merchant & Tradesman List of Buda, 1873
House & Trade Register, Buda, 1873-1882
Address Book of Buda, 1882
The origin of the Vitzthum name
  Maps of Europe
  Sites in Hungary
  Sites in Pest and Buda
  Sites In Austria
  Graz churches
  Nürnberg-Altdorf area
  Sites in Slovakia

APPENDIX 'E', FACSIMILES OF DOCUMENTS
A-K
L-O
P-Z

APPENDIX 'F', DATA TABLES
Source Codes by Kind & Country
List of Vital Data
List of Documents by Name
List of Documents Code
List of Ancestral Places & Names
Source Codes of Individuals

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Introduction

The Hungarian National Archives held thousands and thousands of rolls of micro-films containing the vital records of every village and every town of Hungary from about 1690 to about 1885. In that archive, I spent five 8-hour days per week for about seven months each year for two years, poring over thousands of pages of church records of 200 years from just six places: Buda, Pest, Pozsony, Alcsút, Kiskúnfélegyháza and Vác. As it turned out, those were the only Hungarian places my ancestors lived. All those church records were on microfilms photographed and donated to the Hungarian government by the Mormon Church of the United States (more about them later). After that, I discovered the treasures in the Capital Archive of Budapest, where I spent a comparable amount of time for another two years, researching last testaments, marriage contracts, property records, correspondence, civil lawsuits, school records and minutes of meetings of the City Councils of Buda and Pest. The above research of the extant records traced my ancestry back to about 1710 in Pest, to 1696 in Buda and Vác, and to 1756 in Pozsony. I discovered that our family might be a unique one in Budapest, where most people's ancestry arrived since 1850s. I also discovered that almost all my ancestors, who were not born in the places listed above, came from abroad. Most of my ancestors were German speaking selfemployed burghers, who almost always married into other German speaking burgher families. In the Capital Archives of Budapest, I found many interesting and even fascinating details about the life my ancestors – in last testaments, civil lawsuits, marriage contracts and probate records.

My research in Budapest also uncovered genealogical threads that were leading to other European countries, namely to Austria and Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. As I slowly ran out of material in Hungary, I began to turn my attention to those four countries. Research in those countries eventually uncovered other threads that led me to France, Holland, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, Spain and Switzerland.

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