BB News No. 151 dtd 31 May 2006

THE BURGENLAND BUNCH NEWS - No. 151 DEDICATED TO AUSTRIAN-HUNGARIAN BURGENLAND FAMILY HISTORY (Our 11th Year - Issued monthly as email by G. J. Berghold) May 31, 2006 (c) 2006 G. J. Berghold - all rights reserved) Current Status Of The BB: *Members-1300 *Surname Entries-4498 *Query Board Entries-3517 *Newsletter Subscribers-1040 *Newsletters Archived-151 *Number of Staff Members-16 EMAIL RECIPIENTS PLEASE READ: You are receiving this email newsletter because you are a BB member or have asked to be added to our distribution list. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send email with message "subscribe" or "remove". ("Cancel" will cancel membership, website listings and newsletter.) You cannot send email to this newsletter. If you have problems receiving the newsletter as email, it may be read, downloaded, printed or copied from the BB Homepage. There is also an archive of previous newsletters. This first section of our 2-section newsletter concerns: 1. Update Of Honoree Website & Call For Help 2. Village Of Hannersdorf & Hanners Name - Salzburg Emigration 3. Village Of Frauenkirchen & Stifter Name 4. BB Member's Web Pages - Hadl Family 5. Recent Obituaries Concerning Burgenland Ethnic Families 6. Croatian Origins In The Eisenstadt (Oslip) Area 7. St. Janos Name Index 1. UPDATE OF HONOREE WEBSITE & CALL FOR HELP Frank Paukowits writes: I just wanted to bring you up to date on what we have been doing to expand our website. The major thrust recently has been to significantly increase the number of honorees on our Lehigh-Valley Remembrance List. With the invaluable help of Bob Strauch (BB Lehigh Valley Editor) and Margaret Kaiser (BB Editor for the Szt. Gotthard and Jennersdorf Disticts), in a short period of a few months we have been able to put together a list of over 500 names of Burgenländers who settled in the Lehigh Valley area. Our goal for the year is to identify 1,000 honorees from this area, an achievable target. The best way to do this is to visit the cemeteries where these Burgenländers are buried, and copy information from the gravestones. I thought your idea of getting a group of BB members together on a specific weekend to make these visits made a lot of sense. Not only would it be an effective way to get information for the site, but it would enable some of our members from the Lehigh Valley area to meet and work with others from the BB on a project involving their heritage. The weekend of June 25 and 26 seems to work the best for us. The Coplay Sängerbund is hosting a Stiftungsfest on Sunday, and I thought it would be a wonderful way to cap off the weekend. Our plan is to do cemetery visits on Saturday, and maybe some on Sunday and then attend the Stiftungsfest, which begins at 2:00 P.M. on Sunday. We could use all the help we can get. It would be great if we could get a large group of BB Members to participate. I know that many of our members live in the Lehigh Valley Area. If any are interested in spending a few hours on this project that weekend, I'll provide them with the details. 2. VILLAGE OF HANNERSDORF & HANNERS NAME - SALZBURG EMIGRATION A correspondent writes: My name is Michael Hanners, McKinney, Texas. I am interested in the Hanners name. Hannersdorf is the only place which seems to bear my name. My family settled very early in Georgia and I have been unsuccessful in tracing lineage across the Atlantic. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Reply: Unless you have other data, I seriously doubt that your name bears any relationship to Hannersdorf, Burgenland, Austria. I have no record of any direct emigration from Burgenland to Georgia. Hanner is a Germanic name which stems from Haehn (Hähn), Haehner, Haehnert, Haginher (one in charge of an enclosure). The addition of the "s" is of local derivation. There was post-Reformation emigration to Georgia by Protestant people from Salzburg. You might be able to link to them or some other direct Germanic movement or a post-immigration move from elsewhere in the US. Your best bet would be to start linking to your direct family, starting with grandparents and going back from there. There are no Hanners in today's Hannersdorf and I doubt if there ever were any. Hannersdorf (864 inhabitants) is in the district of Oberwart in middle Burgenland. It was called Hammersdorf until 1924 and called Samfalva, Hungary, pre-1921, when the Burgenland was created as the ninth state (province) of Austria by the post- WW-I Treaty of Trianon. Today it includes the villages of Burg and Woppendorf as part of a market community. It was first mentioned in the year 1406 as "Samfolua" (Hungarian). Its German name, Hannersdorf, is thought to come from "Heinrichsdorf." The village was mostly destroyed by Turkish invasion in 1522 and rebuilt. Emigration to the Americas was mostly prior to WW-I; in 1902, a Ringhofer family went to Chicago. Second Reply: Further to my most recent email, I checked my book concerning the Salzburger emigration. I refer you to "The Salzburger Saga - Religious Exiles and Other Germans Along the Savannah" by George Fenwick Jones, published by Georgia University Press, 1984. You should find a copy in any large Georgia library. In 1731, the archbishop of Salzburg (Austria) expelled 20,000 Protestants (mostly Lutherans) who refused to convert to Catholicism (Austria adopted Catholicism as the monarchial and aristocratic religion during the counter-Reformation after most Austrians and southern Germans had become Lutherans during the Reformation). Three hundred of these forced emigrants accepted the invitation of the Georgia Trustees to settle in their new colony. The first transport arrived in 1734, three more came in the next 7 years. They named their new settlement Ebenezer. They were then joined by Swiss, Palatines (so-called Penna. Dutch) and Württembergers. In the published version of the Ebenezer Church Records I find: Hammer, An (Anna)Ros 1717 (birth date) Saxon Hammer, Elis (Elisabeth) 1743, Saxon Hammer, Pet (Peter) Saxon from Chemnitz I think you would do well to investigate any and all available literature concerning the Salzburger settlement area in Georgia. You might even find a reference to your family name being changed from Hammer to Hanners. Most south German and Salzburg names ended in "er". The Ebenezer, Georgia, area included Abercorn, Goshen, Bethany, Purysburg, Halifax, Savannah, Acton and Vernonburg. You may have ancestors from those areas. If so, it would be one clue that you are a descendant of the Salzburger migration. This of course would also link you to a European origin in the Salzburg or southern German (Rhine Hesse, Salzburg, Austria, Franconia, Swabia, Bavaria) area. There is other literature and I believe the LDS (Mormon Church) can provide some microfilm available at any of their family history centers. 3. VILLAGE OF FRAUENKIRCHEN & STIFTER NAME Correspondent writes: I was browsing the net and have just begun to look up some family material. I am a new genealogy society member. I know very little about my father's family. My father's name was Stephen (Stefan) Stifter, b. June 13, 1906 in Frauenkirchen. Burgenland, and died March 23, 1958 in Kelowna, B.C., Canada. He emigrated to Canada in 1929. His father's name was Michael Stifter, b.1871 in Frauenkirchen, died 1943, buried in Frauenkirchen and one of 7 siblings (apparently). I do not know what their names were nor have any other information. His mother's name was Anna Kaiser, b. 1880 in Hungary, died in 1947 and is also buried in Frauenkirchen. She was also one of 7 children - one of whom apparently died in infancy. I know nothing of her siblings. Michael and Anna had 8 children. Beside my father, there was Michael Jr. b. March 16, 1903; Josef, b March 16, 1904; then my father was next; Therese b. Feb. 23, 1908; Mathias b. April 1909; Paul b. January 25, 1914; Katherine b. October 29, 1916 and Maria b. September 11, 1922. As far as I know, Maria is still alive. We have communicated with Paul's son Herbert who teaches English at a high school in Gattendorf. My sister and I had visited Herbert's family around 1988 and have since not communicated very much. We learned all the above at that time, but due to time restraints and the language barrier, we were very fortunate to learn that much. Anyway, if you could direct me to any clues to find out more, I would certainly appreciate it. I have some publications about Adalbert Stifter b. 1805 and wish to know if and how we could be related. My name now is Elizabeth (Elsie) St Amand (nee Stifter). Reply: As you are new to genealogy as well as Burgenland research, let me state that you must start with what you know and can prove and go from there linking generation by generation with birth (baptism) and marriage and death records. Fortunately the Burgenland church records from 1828-1921 are available as microfilm from the Mormon Church (LDS) and in this way one can trace family if one knows the place of origin as you do. Frauenkirchen in the Burgenland district of Neusiedl am See in northern Burgenland (Hungarian name, Boldogasszony). It is its own RC parish and has a very large and significant church, a basilica, therefore I would direct you to the LDS in order to search these records if your family is RC. In 1883, there was a large Jewish population of 629 people so Frauenkirchen had its own synogogue as well. I do not know the location of those records although many have been preserved. There were only 9 Lutherans so I doubt if you need search for Lutheran records. Pre-1921 Civil Records (dating from 1896) are probably located in Moson. You will have to acquire a certain skill in reading German, Latin and Hungarian church records, which is not all that difficult but you will have to persevere. These church records all follow the usual Christian church English format. Our newsletter archives will tell you how to do that - search our index. You should also search our website for more concerning Frauenkirchen (surname list, village list, householders in 1858, etc.) From the above you can see that it would be futile to jump from what you know today to a link to the author Adelbert Stifter. Stifter is not an uncommon name in northern Burgenland - there are still two in Frauenkirchen today. You might try the online Austrian phonebook for the location of others. The only way to prove a family link is to connect the records. I seriously doubt a link since Adelbert was born in Bohemia and spent much of his later life in Vienna. I am not aware of any connections to Frauenkirchen. Then again, your family may have links to Bohemia (todays' Czech Republic), once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. See our Invitation Letter for how to connect with us and find our website addresses. 4. BB MEMBERS' WEBPAGES - HADL FAMILY (suggested by Anna Kresh) One of the prime objects of the BB is to link descendants of Burgenland area immigrants. In addition to listing data in our membership, surname and village web pages, we encourage members to build there own web pages where they can list and share genealogical family detail too voluminous for our website. URL editor Anna Kresh lists available web pages which can then be reached by hyperlink. Following is a recent addition: A BB member writes: Let me introduce myself: My name is William A Hadl, and I am a BB member, was born in Nazareth, Pa, and my father Frank Hadl immigrated from Urbersdorf. I now live in Colorado Springs, Co. I have been doing research on four BB families: HADL, LOHR, JAUTZ and WUNDERLER. I have these families in a genealogy web page, including photos and some family stories, and believe it might be helpful to some one else in their family research if they had access to it via the 'Burgenland Bunch Members' Home Pages. I want to contribute to the BB in a way, and for now this may be it! Having spent many hours building my web page, I appreciate your contribution to BB and as a member I want to thank you. My web page URL is: freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~myhadlfamily 5. RECENT OBITUARIES CONCERNING BURGENLAND ETHNIC FAMILIES (from Bob Strauch) Emilia "Millie" Artinger, 80, of S. Whitehall Township, passed away April 26, 2006 in Allentown. She was the wife of the late Frank L. Artinger (1924-1976). Born in Jakobshof, Hungary, she was the daughter of the late Johann Schuster and Maria (Santa) Kovacs. There is a cousin in Unterradling. Anna Santa, 84, of Allentown, passed away on May 19. She was born in Jakobshof, Hungary to the late Franz and Juliana (Simitz) Santa and was predeceased by her husband, Karl Santa Sr. 6. CROATIAN ORIGINS IN THE EISENSTADT (OSLIP) AREA Of the three major ethnic groups in the Burgenland, the origins of the Croats are the easiest to trace. Not only have they been well researched in recent years but they arrived fairly late (16th century) and over a relatively short period (most Croat migration occurred between 1500-1600). Migration was primarily caused by Turkish incursions into Croatia with the Croatians fleeing as refugees. We are fortunate in having BB editor Frank Teklits' English translation of Johann Dobravich's "People on the Border - On the History of the Burgenland Croats" (see serialized version in the BB newsletter archives.) In newsletter 151A, which follows, the question is asked; "What was the origin of the Oslip Croatians?" Dobravich supplies the following answer: "The Croatian historiographer Mate Ujevic in page 7 of his treatise 'Gradiscanski Hrvati' Zagreb 1934: From 1522 until 1526, the inhabitants of the Croatian coastal area moved from the precincts of Zengg (Senj) and from the mountain valleys of Lika, Gacka, Krbava into the county of Ödenburg." (Queen Maria, widow of Hungarian Ludwig II, addressed this in an extant order dated September 7, 1526). The origin of the Croats in the two present districts (Eisenstadt and Neusiedl am See) of the northern sector differs from that of the Croats in the southern sector (districts of Güssing and Jennersdorf) who, in 1524, were brought by Military Governor Franz Batthyány from his Croatian holdings southeast of Zagreb (Varasdin) to his recently acquired domain of Güssing. Urbars detailing the villages of origin of specific family names have been translated into German (one source is Robert Hajszan's "Die Kroaten der Herrschaft Güssing") and may be found in the Burgenland state library but there are as yet no English translations. Origin of Croatians in other Burgenland districts will be found in "People on the Border" and it is my understanding that there have been other German translation of Latin and Hungarian Urbars. A fertile field for some English translation. 7. ST. JANOS NAME INDEX Howard Heck writes: My search of the Church records in St. Andra and in St. Johann, in Moson County, was very difficult because of my limited knowledge of German and Latin. The proper names were especially difficult because the penmanship of most of the priests was poor. While reviewing the LDS FHL roll number 630788, I came across an index of baptisms at the Catholic Church in St. Johann (Szentjanos, Moson) from 1827 to 1847. The names are in alphabetical order and are very easy to read. The index contains hundreds of names that are found in many villages in Burgenland. It can be used to find the accurate spelling of names. (ED. Note: Spelling will vary depending on language used.) Newsletter continues as number 151A.

THE BURGENLAND BUNCH NEWS - No. 151A DEDICATED TO AUSTRIAN-HUNGARIAN BURGENLAND FAMILY HISTORY (Our 11th Year - Issued monthly as email by G. J. Berghold) May 31, 2006 (c) 2006 G. J. Berghold - all rights reserved) This second section of our 2-section newsletter concerns: 1. Burgenland Trip Report - Village Of Oslip 2. 31st Annual Hungarian Festival - New Brunswick, NJ 1. BURGENLAND TRIP REPORT - VILLAGE OF OSLIP & VICINITY Trip to Burgenland by Robert F. Tratz of Boise, Idaho My son Stephen and I flew from the Pacific Northwest arriving in Munich on the morning of Friday, March 31, 2006. At the Munich airport we had arranged a pickup through Auto Europe by Peugeot Europe to buy a car (a Peugeot 407 with automatic drive). The advantage of the Peugeot Europe purchase and buy back was that we had total insurance coverage and could go to Hungary if we wished and to the Czech Republic as we had planned. After obtaining the car, we drove to the suburban commuter train station in Hallbergmoos where we picked up my youngest son Nicholas. He had spent the previous year studying Spanish at the University of Salamanca in Spain. As the day was still young and I was still feeling fresh I drove the autobahn to St. Valentin, Austria. We intended to go to Mauthausen concentration camp that afternoon, but frequent thunderstorms made us decide to hunker down for the evening at Pension Remserhof, a nice place at Rems, Austria, just outside St.Valentin. The next morning we took the autobahn directly to Burgenland. As we approached Burgenland the weather became mostly sunny with a temperature in the mid 50's. The sun on the numerous vineyards in Burgenland added to our good spirits. We stopped at the town of Grosshöflein (aka Nagy Höflein) surrounded by vineyards with a background of the Leithagebirge (Leitha Mountains). The Grosshöflein Catholic parish priest, Fr. Hans Haider, was expecting us per my e-mail. He spoke some English, but my knowledge of German was helpful. Fr. Haider brought out the church books from the 1700's and early 1800's (I was surprised that they were not at the Diocesan Archives, but I had already been informed of that fact by the Diocese). Fr. Haider was very helpful in deciphering/interpreting records. He found the 28 February 1817 baptism of Barbara KERN, the spouse of my GGGrandfather George ZEMLYAK/ZEMLOCK. The baptismal record showed she was the daughter of Mathias KERN, from the village of Zemendorf, and Elisabeth LANG from Grosshöflein. He also found the 14 February 1814 marriage in Grosshöflein of 38 year old Mathias KERN of Zemendorf (son of Eva--last name obcure) with 19 year old Elisabeth LANG, the daughter of Anton LANG and Anna (last name obscure). Fr. Haider speculated that Elisabeth was an only daughter and Mathias had come to live in Grosshöflein after the marriage. Fr. Haider was very friendly, gladly made copies of the two records for us, refused any donation and gave us a thorough tour of his church: He explained that part of the church was Romanesque and dated back to the 1200's, the main part was Gothic, and there were "newer" Baroque elements, especially the altar which had the Virgin Mary as its centerpiece. He also showed us the baptismal font at the front side in which he said my GGGrandmother Barbara KERN would have been baptized. The church seems to have a good attendance; a large addition to the left of the altar was constructed in 1986-89. Fr. Haider said that he had been the pastor there for over 30 years. After some picture taking of Grosshöflein, we drove to Eisenstadt, capital of Burgenland, which struck us as being very prosperous. Next on the agenda was our ZEMLYAK (believed to be the Hungarian spelling of the original Croatian ZEMLJAK) ancestral home, in the village of Oslip, about 5 kilometers east of Eisenstadt. (A history of Oslip is in Burgenland Bunch Newsletter 35A dtd. May 1998). (The town of Oslip in 2000 produced a beautiful, huge coffee table history book of Oslip, during its 700th anniversary). Using mapquest.com maps generated before leaving home, we drove straight to the Remushof Jagschitz (Pension) run by Dorothea and Franz Jagschitz. (They operate a very modern bed & breakfast plus winery on a very quiet side street.) As we arrived, Franz was completing an addition to his wine cellar. Friendly Mrs. Jagschitz showed us to our room on the second floor of the winery building--Great food odors as you ascended the staircase! The Pension had a lower "Kuchen" room which was used as a breakfast and wine tasting room. Across the street are many old storage outbuildings dating from the 1800's, though most of the town is now quite modern. Wine-making (excellent quality wines to which I can attest) has contributed greatly to the prosperity of the area. That afternoon we took pictures of surrounding wine making villages and saw the Neusiedler See, the large shallow marsh/lake area that borders Hungary to the east and south. We drove to an overlook point at the quarry east of St. Margarethen. The quarry, dating back to Roman times, contains a huge amphitheater where Passion plays are conducted in the summer. We also stopped and took pictures in two neighboring villages, Trausdorf an der Wulka and Siegendorf im Burgenland, which harbor Zemlyak families (and many others of Croatian descent). They were not at work--it was Saturday and Klothilde Zemlyak had already closed her bakery in Trausdorf for the day. It was too late to look them up at home, so we returned to Oslip from Siegendorf to find dinner. We strolled the streets of Oslip and enjoyed the pleasant evening while looking for a place to eat. As we passed by the Catholic Church, we heard loud singing in Croatian from the evening Mass. We checked the graveyard by the church but the older graves have been recycled as they normally do in Europe. We noted several family names on the WWI and WWII Denkmal (memorial). It is pretty quiet in Oslip on a Saturday evening in the springtime. The two main area restaurants are closed at that time of the year. Not until summer music performances get underway is there much activity. With only 1300 souls, there isn't a lot of action. One cafe/bar had some cars in front, but did not serve meals, so we drove to Eisenstadt for a pizza dinner. (We had excellent Austrian cooking the previous evening, so we didn't miss any great local cuisine). Sunday, April 2 was a gorgeous, sunny day with highs in the upper 60's. We attended Mass at the church in Oslip. Fr. Franz Borenitsch, religious assistant for the Croatian Culture Association (HKD) and for the Institute of the Burgenland Croats (ZIGH), was the Mass celebrant. The startup was stirring and marvelous with hearty, melodic singing in Croatian by the entire congregation that crowded the church. The language of the Mass was mostly Croatian with some German (same in the nearby parishes at Trausdorf and Siegendorf). Many young people gave readings--mostly in Croatian. It was a moving experience listening to what I decided were old songs that my own Zemlyak ancestors probably sang before emigrating to America in 1857. After Mass we visited with two Zemlyak/Zemlyak families, including Paul and Agnes Zemljak, in the church yard (one Zemljak family was adopted by the Pillers and had the last name Piller). As they had no English, I could only communicate with them to a limited degree with my rusty German and with the help of a daughter who knew some English. I gave them some postcards from Idaho as a remembrance of our visit. Shortly afterward, my sons and I went to the Robert Zemlyak, Sr. home on the south side of Oslip. (Robert Jr. had been expecting us per e-mails sent a couple weeks earlier). Robert Zemlyak, Sr., age 68, also did not speak any English, so again, my college German came in very handy. His wife Anna greeted us warmly and invited us for lunch. Their son Robert Jr. lives behind their home (and speaks good English). He soon came with his wife Sabine and daughter Nicole. We viewed old pre-war family photographs. (Robert Sr. had lost his Father at the Russian front when he was only 7). They showed us an extensive family tree (went back to about 1800) that a cousin had developed (I was given a copy later). The midday meal was tasty: ham, wienerschnitzel, rice, potatoes, pumpkin salad, excellent sauerkraut and wine from their own winery (with the Zemlyak label, of course). I would have loved to get a bottle of Zemlyak wine for my Mother (maiden name Zemlock) in Colorado, but the Zemlyaks were so generous that I did not want to impose. While in conversation among themselves, the Zemlyaks seemed more comfortable in Croatian than German, but they said that only about half of the young people know Croatian now, because the television bombards them with German. (They speak the Croatian of the 1600's (when the Zemlyaks/Zemljaks migrated to Oslip from Croatia) rather than the Croatian that is spoken in Croatia today.) Robert Jr. and family think that the Zemlyaks came from eastern Croatia. (Anna Odorfer of Eisenstadt believes that most of the Croatians in the area came from southern Croatia or Dalmatia.) Are there any definitive records? (ED. Note: Yes, there has been research and there are German translations of aristocratic Urbars-which list family names and Croatian villages of origin. See the Teklits English translation of "People on the Border-History of Burgenland Croats"-available from the BB archives.) We visited Robert Jr.'s large and modern home where he showed us his party room, and work room, with motorcycles (some from the 1950's) that he is restoring. In a land where gas costs over $6 a gallon, I was surprised to see that he had a large SUV in his garage. They make frequent skiing trips to the Schneeberg (which is visible from Oslip). A wide screen TV and computer room were also present. He is obviously doing well working for the gas company. At Robert Sr.'s home, we saw some old grain harvesting tools now used as decorations and took pictures. Robert Jr. showed us his fruit trees. When he showed us his tamburitza (like a guitar) and mentioned that he sang to its accompaniment, my son Nick asked him to play. He did so--most enjoyable! He mentioned that he had toured several cities in the United States and Toronto with a folk group from Oslip. He gave us a CD of old folk songs from the 1800's and earlier found in Oslip in old books and papers. A group (of which Robert was once a member) made the CD in 1997. These songs from a village of only 1300 won't make the top 40, but I love the tamburitza accompaniment. The CD and the pictures of the people we met are the best trip mementos! We saw the courtyard of the Cselley Storchmuhle (Stork Mill) where private dinners are sometimes catered. We were told of the prevalence of storks in the area as they head for the Neusiedler See. We drove to the outskirts of Oslip to Cselley Muhle, a restaurant and musical venue for mostly rock groups during the summer. We then went to Eisenstadt for a tour of the Esterhazy Palace, formerly the home of the Hungarian noble family that controlled the area. The Esterhazy Palace is a very large and beautiful building which has many impressive rooms that rival the elegance of the Habsburg buildings in Vienna. (ED. Note-the Princes Esterhazy were among the richest aristocrats in Europe). Especially impressive is a very large meeting room/concert room called the Haydn Room. I had a wine tasting/meeting scheduled at our Pension with Anna Odorfer, who wrote a history of Oslip a number of years ago--(see Newsletter 35A). The history was translated and added to by Bruce Klemens of the Burgenland Bunch. Anna had recommended the Jagschitz Pension to us as well. Dorothea Jagschitz allowed us to sample five or six of their 19 varieties of wine. Naturally, we later purchased a bottle. (I wish I could have brought more home). I had a very enjoyable visit getting to know Anna and husband Fredi Odorfer. During the wine sampling, we visited with Gerhard Lang of Rust, Burgenland, a contributor to the Burgenland Bunch. We discussed some aspects of Burgenland culture, language, and genealogy. He encouraged me to contribute a summary of my trip to the Burgenland Bunch. As Anna Odorfer was leaving, she mentioned that she thought she knew the location of the ancestral Zemlyak home in Oslip. Unfortunately, the next morning Dorothea Jagschitz left to take her children to school before we could get the location and she did not return before we left to go to the Diocesan Archives in Eisenstadt. An important picture opportunity missed!! Monday, April 3, I spent 4 hours at the Diocesan Archives getting more family history back to almost 1750, from the older church records deposited there. Dr. Zelfel, the chief archivist was very helpful in retrieving the records and assisting me. Incidentally, I discovered here that our Pension hosts, the Jagschitzes, are distantly related; one (a JAICSICH, a spelling variant) married a Zemlyak ancestor in the late 1700's. As my boys were anxious to see Vienna, we had to leave. I did not get to see all of the people with whom I wished to be acquainted or do all of the things that I wanted. Perhaps, another time when I retire? In closing, I would especially like to thank Bruce Klemens of the Burgenland Bunch for introducing me to the BB 8 years ago and for connecting me with Anna Odorfer. She made many suggestions and arrangements for accommodations and research that contributed greatly to our visit. 2. 31ST ANNUAL HUNGARIAN FESTIVAL - NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ (from Margaret Kaiser) Sponsored by the Hungarian Civic Association. Saturday, June 3, 2006, 11 AM - 8 PM. Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Festival Mall area along Somerset Street from Division to Bethany Streets. Festivities begin with parade to ceremonies at HAAC on Somerset Street. Folk dance performances and cultural programs every hour. Antique car show and display on Somerset Street between Louis and Bethany Street. Hungarian food, vendors with Hungarian products, exhibits, music, folk art and crafts, games for children, museum gift shop, folk dancing, fencing demonstration, twilight concert in the Museum courtyard. For further information call 732 846-5777. END OF NEWSLETTER The Burgenland Bunch homepage (website) can be found at: http://www.the-burgenland-bunch.org/ We can also be reached from: http://go.to/burgenland-bunch (this address also provides access to Burgenländische Gemeinschaft web site) Use our website to access our membership, village and surname lists, archives, internet links, maps, instructions, ethnic song book, frequently asked questions and other information. Burgenland Bunch Newsletter (c) 1997 archived courtesy of RootsWeb.com, Inc. P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798. Newsletter published monthly by G. J. Berghold, Winchester, VA. Newsletter and List Rights Reserved. Permission to Copy Granted; You Must Provide Credit and Mention Source.