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Hello everyone
I hope that someone here can help me. I'm discovering more about my grandmother's family. She says she was born in a place called Kikinda. I believe this is the same Kikinda as in modern day Serbia (although she did refer to it once as Groß Kikinda...she also always says her home country was 'Yugoslavia' so I'm fairly certain it's the Serbian town of Kikinda she was born in).
She is in her 80s now and her memory is not as good as it used to be. I am looking for more information about her family and I also need to find out if I can get her birth certificate.
Her name back then was Elizabeth Schorsch. Her father was called Josef.
Does anyone know anything that can help me or anyone I can contact in Kikinda who has access to birth, marriage or death records?
Also I am very curious about some of her experiences during the war. She doesn't talk much about it but she says she was forced to leave her home in Kikinda but she doesn't say why.. Most of her family moved to Brazil after the war but she came, instead to Britian.
Hi,
My father's side is from Kikinda. He was born in 1923. He left there, I don't know when, and went to Venezuela. Way back it WAS called Gross Kikinda. My dad's side was from Bashaid, which belonged to Kikinda. I am not sure whom to contact for birth records. My father is long gone now. He would be 91. I knew my grandfather. He lived with us. I was 7 when he died, so I do not remember him. I just found out his parents names, but I am not having any luck with my research on them. There is a website for Kikinda, but it is in Serbian.(Google translate will not work). Kikinda was originally part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Then it belonged to Romania, then to Yugoslavia and now it is in Serbia. It is part of Vojvodina(which is an autonomous province-means it has it own laws).
As she is still alive, she would need to sign a letter and ask the municipality for a copy. You could draft her a letter and ask her to sign it?
Regards,
Sergej