Re: Hartos from Zapinsky
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Re: Hartos from Zapinsky
ann BREMER 10/18/06
It is unlikely that you would have any more information even if you found the ship manifest. Those early records gave only the briefest of information, basically name, age, and their country of origin.
All of the Hartoses in the Ellis Island records came from a small area of old Zemplen megye (county) in Varannoi district. See the blue section of the map at http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/maps/1910/zemplen.jpghttp://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/maps/1910/zemplen.jpg (number 12). The Hungarian names for the villages were Csaklyo, Henczocz, and Kladzan. Csaklyo is just west of Varanno, and the other two villages, within walking distance of each other, are just east of Varanno. Today Csaklyo is Caklov and Kladzan is Kladzany. Henczocz no longer appears to be on the map. (Varanno is now Vranov nad Toplou.)
The immigration and census records are not easy to interpret. All of them were named John (Janos), Michael (Mihaly), Joseph, or George (Gyorgy), who may have been another brother. All of them ended up in Pennsylvania and appear to have had children with the same common names. Sorting them out by date of birth and family relationships will be a daunting task. This is even more complicated when one considers that dates of birth should be considered only approximate. Depending on the source of information, they could be off by a few years. The same is true of dates of immigration as stated in census records. The only dates you can fully trust are actual birth and immigration records.
LDS has Evangelical church records for the village of Kladzan, 1805-1925. The Henczocz residents may be there as well, since the villages were so close. I do not find records for Csaklyo. They may be with another nearby village. You could check those that appear reasonable from the Zemplen map.
I will contact you privately with more detailed information from immigration and census records.
Janet