For the
Donauschwaben researcher, both
"emigrate" and "immigrate" apply to both
movements of our ancestors. It just
depends on how you are discussing the
process. Even though our ancestors left
one place within the Austro-Hungarian
Empire, they were still emigrating from
their native homeland, to a new home in
the Banat or Batschka. On their
arrival, they were immigrating to a new
place. These two words are often used
interchangeably, but they have different
meanings:
Emigrate - to leave one
country or region to settle in
another. Example: they
emigrated from Lorraine and
immigrated to the Banat.
Emigrant Reference Books
Immigrate - to enter and settle
in a land to which one is not
native. Example: they
emigrated from the Batschka and
immigrated to the US.
Immigration & Passenger Records
Einwanderungszentralstelle (EWZ) Anträge:
records of ethnic Germans applying for German citizenship during
the period 1939-45
Ausland Institut Index Cards:
Index card compilations by the Ausland Institut in Germany in
the 1930's are also available on numerous microfilm rolls from
the FHL. Some examples:
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Ansiedlerorte
(settlements) Batschka-Ungarn
circa 1686-1830: Films 1326491, 1326493
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Emigrants to Hungary:
1750-1945: Films: 1552795
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German Emigrants to
Hungary and Russia: 1755-1805: Films 1340060, 1340061
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Kartei der Auswanderer in
den Ostgebieten (Archive of Settlements in the East): 1750-1943: Films 539248
About Ethnicity [The DVHH does not
necessarily endorse findings at these
site, but merely providing our readers
optional theories and reading.]:
Race, Ethnicity and Administration in Early
18th-Century Habsburg Hungary (PDF) by William O’Reilly, National
University of Ireland, Galway
"Double Identity: Being German and
Hungarian at the Same Time" by
Györgyi-Elisabeth Bindorffer
www.mek.iif.hu/porta/szint/tarsad/szocio/identity/identity.htm
Migration, identity and loyalty.
The changes in the identity
structures of Germans living in
Hungary by Györgyi-Elisabeth
Bindorffer
www.mtaki.hu/docs/ter_es_terep_04/t_e_t_04_bindorffer_gyorgyi_summary.htm
NO LANGUAGE, NO ETHNICITY? Ethnic
Identity, Language & Cultural
Representation among Hungarian
Germans by Györgyi-Elisabeth
Bindorffer-
www.socio.mta.hu/mszt/a1998/bindorff.htm
Transmission and preservation of
memory in ethnic minority context
Traditions, oral history and
cultural memory by Györgyi-Elisabeth
Bindorffer
www.mtaki.hu/docs/bindorffer_gyorgyi_transmission_preservation.pdf
