[Ponte Alto] Greetings from Sandor the Newbie

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Hello Sándor--

Welcome to Ponte Alto!

Where do the Magyar fit compared to the group you describe below?  A
few years ago, I started to research 9th century Magyar and could
(hopefully) find some of the links & book titles and forward them on,
if that would be at all helpful.  IIRC, many of the sources had more
information for later period (12th century+).  Do you speak/read
Hungarian?  That would be helpful for a couple of the sites/books; I
could only look at the pictures!

Please let me know if you're planning on attending one of the Newcomers
meetings this month -- I can try to find one of the books and bring it
to the meeting. 

-Siobhan (mka Laura)

--- Sándor_Vitez <n5lf at arrl.net> wrote:

> I've been researching for a couple of months and am of Hungarian
> heritage (2nd generation US-born).  So, tentatively, I am taking on a
> Hungarian (western Transylvania) persona - No nothing to do with 
> dracula (yuk)!  More of a Jewish liquor/wine merchant turned
Innkeeper
> & Tavern owner.
> 
> Transylvania was the eastern part of Hungary from 600-800 AD until
> after WW I. In the late 1400s through 1500s it became an autonomous
> principality, and was a bit more tolerant of Jews than the western, 
> Habsburg-dominated half.
> So, there were better career opportunities for a Jewish persona in
> Calvinist Transylvania (eastern Hungary) than in the Catholic Royal 
> Hungary (Habsburg western Hungary).
> 
> Best opportunities for any minorities were in the Turkish-dominated
> south-central Hungary at that time, but that wasn't the culture or
> costuming I was after for my persona.
> 
> So, I will sign myself,
> 
>   Sándor Vitez (Alexander the Gallant (or Brave, Valiant))
> 
> or, in Hungary where they put surname first,
> 
>   Vitez Sándor
> 
> Mundanely,
>   Alan W. (Annandale, VA)
> 
> 
> 
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