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Hi,
I've been trying to trace my family tree for quite some time, but have had very little luck due to the lack of online resources for this area (I am located in Australia) and being of Hungarian ethnic heritage, never learnt Serbian (google translate is my friend!).
I am currently trying to obtain the birth certificates for my great-grandparents, who (from what I have been told) were born in Zrnyanin, Novi Sad, Curug, Jazovac & Szajan.
I only have the years of birth for them however and have been told by the consulate in Australia that they don't know if applying through them would yield any results and I would be better off asking 'someone in Serbia' for help.
I can provide links to my family tree on ancestry.com.au if that would help, and also have the birth certificates (in Serbian) for 3 of my 4 grandparents. I am happy to compensate costs and time for this to someone that could help.
Thanks
Szia:)
SGS Rodoslovlje is like Serbia, a multilingual society- the official forms for birth certificates can in Novi Sad and Vojvodina be submitted in Hungarian language, and you will be issued the birth certificates in both Serbian and the minority language. However, these will be the modern birth certificates, not the scans of the original records - for those, you need to contact either the diocese that covers the parish where your ancestors were born and baptized, or the historical archives that have them on microfilms.
I have a contact in the municipal archive in Novi Sad who can help you and will communicate in English with you. She is not a *professional* genealogist, but she has access to all records and is a student who can help you locate the records you need from other places you listed and obtain them - there are legal restrictions and you will have to sign an authorization letter so that she can look for them on your behalf.
I will send you the contact details in a private message.
Hi!
Thank you so much for your quick response!
That sounds really great...I am thankful for the assistance and look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks again,
Suzsanna
The contact researcher who speaks perfect English fell through - I do have someone who is university educated and has worked in the archives previously who you can hire, but am not sure about his English.
- He can travel to any place in Vojvodina, research in municipal offices and archives as well as all published sources ( books, newspaper archives) . Your fee would include the cost of administrative taxes needed for filing requests and obtaining documents , compensation of bus/train ticket from Novi Sad to the location where he is to do the research, and his hourly rate.
As a bonus you will get cemetery report and headstones in the local cemetery photographed, end report translated into Englsih ( by me) , and attempt to locate relatives.
That sounds really great.
I will continue the conversation regarding this through private message.
Thanks again!
That sounds really great.
I will continue the conversation regarding this through private message.
Thanks again!
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Hi,
If anyone could please provide me the name & contact information (preferably email address) of an English speaking, reputable geneologist or researcher that works in at least one of the Zrnyanin, Novi Sad, Curug, Jazovac & Szajan areas, it would be much appreciated. I have made no progress at all with my family tree with any previous responses.
Thanks!
I am sorry but based on the info you provided I found no records in the corresponding parishes in the e-archive of the Kalocsa diocese for the ancestors in Novi Sad/anywhere else- so I could not provide any field researcher with a starting point for you . If you are looking for *reputable* genealogists google agencies that list *Serbia* as their field of expertize and they will do research in the municipal offices and archives for you at steep tariffs regardless of results. At the moment no such agency or *reputable* genalogist working in Serbia or from elswhere in the region is endorsed or recommended by "Rodoslovlje".
Ok, thanks for letting me know.