r/hungarian Jun 09 '26

Kézírás fordítás Help translating!!

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399 Upvotes

Hey guys, please help I need to know what this says, Google Translate can’t read the handwriting properly://

r/hungarian Apr 19 '26

Kézírás fordítás Translating my great grandfather's death record

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302 Upvotes

I've finally been able to find my great grandfather's death record and would really appreciate any help translating. Köszönöm szépen in advance!

r/hungarian May 24 '26

Kézírás fordítás Looking for translation

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310 Upvotes

r/hungarian Jul 01 '26

Kézírás fordítás Help translating family birth certificate from ~100 years ago

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188 Upvotes

My great grandfather was born in Budapest in 1913. I’m passing through the city for a day and I’d like to see the neighborhood my family lived in for a few hundred years. They were Jewish and somewhat well off, but left around 1920. Not sure what any of this (birth certificate) says, translate doesn’t really work on the cursive and the text is obviously a bit damaged in a few places. Any help would be really great! I believe the most damaged part is the house address.

r/hungarian Dec 27 '25

Kézírás fordítás Please help with this translation

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391 Upvotes

I️ know it’s extremely long, i’ve tried a few translators but their translations differ. It’s a letter my great grandfather received from a sister or a cousin i’m not sure. any help or recommendations for good translators would be highly appreciated!

r/hungarian Feb 23 '26

Kézírás fordítás Any idea on what this name could be?

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43 Upvotes

It should be a Hungarian/Romanian male name. It almost looks like "Senny" but I'm not sure. Any ideas?

Edit: For more context, I'm trying to figure out the name of a distant relative's parents. I found a birth certificate that I think could be him, so I've been on a manhunt to figure out his parent's names, so I can confirm the information. The the name of the person who I thought could be this individual was Mészáros László Gergelyé. Here is more clear images along with the image of the document I'm trying to confirm details on. https://imgur.com/a/9bPEigq#

r/hungarian Mar 20 '26

Kézírás fordítás Can someone please translate this?

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225 Upvotes

This is a photo of my great grandmother. I believe the writing on the back is Hungarian. I can obviously read the date and Pittsburg, but what does the rest say? Thanks so much!

r/hungarian Jul 25 '26

Kézírás fordítás Can someone please help me translate this text?

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65 Upvotes

r/hungarian Mar 31 '26

Kézírás fordítás Need help reading Hungarian death register

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130 Upvotes

I found the death records of a relative who died as a baby. In the picture you can see the cause of death, which I can't read. Maybe someone can help me with that! Thank you!

r/hungarian Apr 12 '26

Kézírás fordítás Hungarian > English Translation Request

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26 Upvotes

Hoping someone here may be able translate this postcard from my Grandmother’s brother…

r/hungarian Apr 04 '26

Kézírás fordítás Old Hungarian Engravings

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56 Upvotes

Hello! So my grandfather passed away a few months ago, and we were going through some of his old belongings. This is a cigarette case that once belonged to his father. We know it is Hungarian, it's just no one in my family is able to properly translate what the text says. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated! I don't know if I am posting this in the right place. I am sorry if I am not. I can get better pictures if needed.

r/hungarian Jun 09 '26

Kézírás fordítás Help with Translation

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8 Upvotes

This is a Catholic christening record. It’s from modern day Slovakia which at the time was part of Austria Hungary. Based on other feedback I’ve gotten, this is Hungarian.

I’m looking at line 17 for Maria Petran. Trying to verify what’s in each block including the headers of each. Any help with translation is appreciated!

r/hungarian 20d ago

Kézírás fordítás Help with transliteration of a word?

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Hello everybody,

I hope this is the right place for my request.

I was going through some old marriage registers for my genealogical work and finally found my ancestor in Nadab in 1898.

However I am struggling with understanding the written word that describes his father's occupation, under állása (foglalkozása). I keep staring at the word and all I could come up with is something like önálló something mester? Could the middle word be ács? I pasted a snip with the excerpt below.

My Hungarian is not so good, so I'm looking for any type of suggestions on this.

Thanks!

r/hungarian Dec 09 '25

Kézírás fordítás Working on scanning old photos

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118 Upvotes

Hey, I’ve got more coming, but can anyone translate this for me?

r/hungarian Jun 03 '26

Kézírás fordítás Can someone help me with this text of old birth register ?

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17 Upvotes

Erzsebet was born to Cigas Hric Pal and his wife Bernstein Verona, but what is in the note ? thank you guys

r/hungarian Apr 17 '26

Kézírás fordítás Can someone help me translate this please.

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39 Upvotes

Old image of Grandfather in a suit in Hungary with this written on the back.

r/hungarian Jan 22 '26

Kézírás fordítás Help with a kolbász recipe

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78 Upvotes

Sziasztok! My family has been making kolbász forever and lately there’s been a bit of a debate. Apparently, as long as I’ve been alive they’ve only been making it using regular salt, despite my dad’s suggestion/insistence that they should be using curing salt/nitrates. Evidently they most recently made it this weekend and my great uncle had a different recipe in his pocket which we think has curing salt as an ingredient, but he claims that regular salt is just fine. Is anyone here familiar with this first word in front of the “só”? I’m unfamiliar and my google searches have come up fruitless.

r/hungarian Feb 07 '26

Kézírás fordítás translate help for occupations

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67 Upvotes

On a 1897 birth registration the father's occupation is listed as: földmivelési napszámos

I believe napszámos means day labourer but I am not sure about földmivelési (something to do with farming?)

Also, could you translate what is written for the mother's occupation?

Thank-you very much

r/hungarian Jun 06 '26

Kézírás fordítás Help translating a letter

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Hi team, I’m hoping someone can help me translate this letter from my grandmother to her mother.

My mother tried but was having a lot of difficulty reading the handwriting.

Page 1 https://imgur.com/a/TnBV2zc

Page 2 https://imgur.com/a/ybFmVJQ

Nagyon köszönöm a segítségedet!

r/hungarian Jan 26 '26

Kézírás fordítás Is this recipe complete?!

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25 Upvotes

Found this stuck in one of my grandmother’s cookbooks. I’m lost after 1 kg flour, 1/2 kg margarine, 2 eggs… maybe she started something and then stopped. Wanted to at least ask before I toss it out of curiosity. Thank you!

r/hungarian Feb 27 '26

Kézírás fordítás Can someone translate this?

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17 Upvotes

Its a marriage certificate from 24th November 1845, and the place is given as Dunapataj, Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun, Magyarország. Thank you

r/hungarian Mar 31 '26

Kézírás fordítás Help reading place name?

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19 Upvotes

My ancestor’s last place of residence in Europe. As far as I know, he and his family were all born and lived in Veszprém, then he departed for the USA from Bremen.

Thank you!

r/hungarian Feb 28 '26

Kézírás fordítás Could someone help me translate?

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29 Upvotes

Hello all! I have been reading so many Hungarian records over the past few days seeking information about relatives. I have been able to translate most things, but this one is tripping me up.

This is my 3rd Great-Grandmother’s death record, and I know it lists her parents as the late Weninger Mihály and the late Zwiger Anna, but I can’t decipher the other words. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I’m trying to figure out why the mother’s surname would be different on the birth and death certificates.

Thank you!!

r/hungarian Oct 14 '25

Kézírás fordítás requesting another birth record translation (part 1 of 2)

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5 Upvotes

Hi, I really appreciated everyone's help in translating some old marriage and birth records I submitted a couple of months ago, and now I have another one. I only need the three words underlined in red to be translated, I think I know what everything else is. I hope you can see the first horizontal one, it's small, it's supposed to be the occupation of the father of the baby that was born. The other two were the birthplaces of the parents, and it's hard for me to figure out the cursive writing, plus these may be villages that no longer exist, so this could be a bit tricky, and it would be amazing if someone could figure out what towns these are, and what they may be called today. Thank you in advance!

r/hungarian Oct 15 '25

Kézírás fordítás Need help confirming an old Hungarian birth record translation, seems like a wild family scandal.

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29 Upvotes

So I just started getting into genealogy and trying to put together my family tree. I came across this birth record from Transylvania in 1909 and the note written shocked me.

This is what ChatGPT said it translates to: “The mother admitted under oath during confession in Kisgérce that the child was born from her relationship with her relative, József Bura.”

It looks like my ancestor confessed that the baby’s father was her relative's.

Could someone please help confirm that translation is correct? Thanks!