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Hi Bluebird,

Thanks for the reply and the info.

Unfortunately all I know is what I have from her death certificate ie that she was born on 16th Aug 1906 in Budapest.  Another snippet is that the informant was a Ferenc Jozsef DODOG.

It would be great to find anything out about her really, though I suppose I am mainly interested in terms of what she might lead to shedding a little light on part of my Great Uncle's life.

From your experience of Hungarian research, would you say I am unlikely to be able to find her birth cert ?

I was told by my late father that Edward married a French woman in the mid-1960s, but I suppose he might have misremembered a marriage in France to a Hungarian woman.  We know that Edward certainly travelled around Africa, but so far we have no details to any european travel.

All the best,
Geoff Browne.

Quote from: Bluebird Research on Tuesday 26 January 10 20:07 GMT (UK)

Hi

The spelling of this surname is probably Hálám. I do not believe it is a common name but records in Hungary, and also within Budapest, are decentralised - there are no central nationwide or citywide indexes.

If they married in the 1960s in UK then I would guess that she was either a post-WW2 Displaced Person (i.e. arrived in England after 1946) or else fled Hungary in late 1956 following the Soviet invasion.

There would also have been Hungarian emigres and refugees in countries such as France, of course, so they may have married overseas.

Do you wish to research her family tree or just find out more about your great uncle?