Regional and ethnic division

• the whole of today's Slovakia,
• the western part of today's Romania (Transylvania in Latin, Erdély in Hungarian, Siebenbürgen in German, Ardeal in Romanian), and also some of its southwestern part, named Bánát. (The name Bánát is German, however, it is the most accepted name for this region. The old Hungarian name for it is Bánság.),
• the northern part of today's Yugoslavia. It is now a federal state of the Yugoslavian republic with the name Vojvodina. Its Hungarian equivalent is Vajdaság. Parts of the Bánát belong to Yugoslavia, too,
• Croatia was a country that belonged to Austria-Hungary,
• northeastern part of Slovenia (parts of the old Hungarian counties Vas and Zala),
• the federal state Burgenland of Austria.

The stormy history in the Carpathian basin made Austria-Hungary a multi-ethnic empire. This is true for Hungary itself, too. The Turkish occupation in the 16-17th centuries reduced the ratio of Hungarians to 50% in Hungary. New settlement on the devastated territories began in the 18th century. Germans, who where already present from the middle ages in the southern part of Transylvania, northern part of Hungary (Szepes county) and in the towns, started to settle down in central and southern parts of Hungary (Bácska, Bánát). Slovakians started to move into the valleys, plains of northern Hungary. The same happened with Romanians in Transylvania. The ethnic distribution of Hungary in 1910 is displayed on this map, which is based on census.

Germans

Siebenbürgen historical and genealogical research page
As the name Siebenbürgen suggests, these pages are mainly for those interested in the "Saxon" genealogy of Transylvania (Erdély, Ardeal)
German genealogy: Danube-Swabians / Donauschwaben
Ethnic Germans in old Hungary, the so-called Donauschwaben are introduced here. There are pages for the areas where they settled down. Comprehensive information on their origin, history and culture.

Jewish people

H-SIG home page
JewishGen is an organization where people with interest of Jewish family history worldwide meet each other. There is a special interest group for Hungary (H-SIG) with a home page now.

Regional division

Burgenland Bunch Homepage
A homepage for the researchers in Austria's federal state Burgenland, once western part of Hungary. Besides the German and Croatian speaking people here, there are Hungarians in this region, too.
Eastern Slovakia, Slovak and Carpatho-Rusyn genealogy research
Lots of information on Eastern Slovakia.
Carpatho-Rusyn genealogy web site home page
One of the persons involved in the above Slovak and Carpatho-Rusyn site, started his new, separate one.
The Carpatho-Rusyn knowledge base
Kind of comprehensive site on the Sub-Carpathian region of the Ukraine. This was part of Austria-Hungary until 1920. Content concentrates on the Rusyns.
The Carpathian connection
This is a new site about the Rusyns.