In family history research, my primary goal is the reliability and verifiability of data.
During my research, I work with a wide range of sources, including family contributions, online databases, archival and church records, as well as printed scholarly literature.
Below, I list the sources that form the foundation of my research, grouped by thematic categories.
Personal and community sources
Personal contributions from family members and fellow researchers play a particularly important role in my work.
These sources often preserve information that has not survived in written form or is only documented fragmentarily in official records.
Key contributors include:
- my late maternal grandparents
- siblings of my father
- Joseph Laszlo Kupan
- the late János Kocs
- as well as many other relatives and researchers
Online databases and digital resources
A significant part of my research relies on online databases and digitised archival collections, which make historical sources accessible across borders.
These include international and regional genealogy platforms, digital parish registers, and archival portals maintained by archives and libraries.
- FamilySearch
- Magyar Családtörténet-kutató Egyesület (MACSE)
- Diocesan Archive of Pécs
- Váci Püspöki és Káptalani Levéltár
- Matricula.hu
- Adatbázisok Online
- Matricula Online
- Arhivele Naționale ale României
- Hungaricana
- Arcanum Newspapers
- Pannon Digitális Egyesített Archívum
- Katonahőseink
- Slovakiana
- Online Ortsfamilienbücher
- BillionGraves
- Find a Grave
- Pécsi Köztemető
- Szegeditemetkezes.hu
- A szakadáti németség hagyatéka (Krémer Péter oldala)
- A Kupán család története
- Ancestry
- MyHeritage
Archival and church sources
Archival records and church sources form the backbone of genealogical research.
I regularly consult baptismal, marriage, and burial registers, parish records, census materials, civil records, and other ecclesiastical documents.
These sources provide structured and continuous documentation of families across generations.
Written sources and scholarly literature
Printed sources and academic literature offer essential historical and social context for interpreting genealogical data.
These include local histories, settlement studies, ethnographic works, church histories, and regional monographs.
Such works help place individual family stories within broader historical processes.
- Stefan Stader: Sammelwerk donauschwäbischer Kolonisten (Band I–IX.)
- Beáta Pallai-Wéber – Ilona Pencz-Amrein: Auswanderung aus den Ortschaften des Bistums Fulda nach Ungarn im 18. Jahrhundert
- Ferdinand Hengl: Familienbuch Apátvarasd: 1719-1900; im Komitat Baranya, Ungarn
- Ferdinand Hengl: Die deutschen Familien im Komitat Baranya-Branau/Ungarn in den kirchlichen Seelenlisten 1767-1768
- Ferdinand Hengl: Die deutschen Familien im Komitat Tolna-Tolnau/Ungarn in den kirchlichen Seelenlisten 1767-1768
- Diósberényért Egyesület: Átélt történelem I-II. (Életképek 1944-1948)
- Bátaszék / Badeseck I-II.
- Várnagy Antal: Hőgyész. Községtörténeti monográfia. I-II.
- Elisabeth Kremer: Feked – Das Dorf und seine Einwohner. A falu és lakói
- Gerhard Seewann: A magyarországi németek története 1-2.
- Pejin Attila: Zenta céhes ipara 1872-ig
- Zsilinszky Mihály: Szarvas város történelme és jelen viszonyainak leírása
- Köpeczi Béla: Erdély története I-III.
- Berkes József – Szerényi Ildikó: Keresem őseimet
- Családfa Magazin
The range of sources I use is constantly expanding as new databases become available and further archival research is conducted.
Together, these sources provide the stable foundation upon which family trees and individual life stories are built.