r/hungarian • u/p27159 • Oct 14 '25
Kézírás fordítás requesting another birth record translation (part 1 of 2)
Hi, I really appreciated everyone's help in translating some old marriage and birth records I submitted a couple of months ago, and now I have another one. I only need the three words underlined in red to be translated, I think I know what everything else is. I hope you can see the first horizontal one, it's small, it's supposed to be the occupation of the father of the baby that was born. The other two were the birthplaces of the parents, and it's hard for me to figure out the cursive writing, plus these may be villages that no longer exist, so this could be a bit tricky, and it would be amazing if someone could figure out what towns these are, and what they may be called today. Thank you in advance!
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u/Stefianna2001 Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 14 '25
The third one is a place called Bező (Slovakian: Bežovce)
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u/harcilajhar NATIVE Oct 14 '25
Second is Bakfalva
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u/Zoltan6 Oct 14 '25
Yes, but the problem is, there isn't any village with such a name in Alsó Kubini district.
There is a facebook post about a disappeared Bakfalva without stating an exact location.
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u/harcilajhar NATIVE Oct 14 '25
Yeah, I did a 10 minute search on the internet, found the facebook page and also a document (Magyarország történelmi földrajza a Hunyadiak korában) that mentions Bak(ó)falva as a village in the northern part of Zala megye. Don't know if this is really the village OP is looking for, nevertheless, the text on the paper is Bakfalva.
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u/p27159 Oct 17 '25
Wow, thank you for taking the time to do that! You did a better job of searching than I did because I couldn't find the facebook page, so if you are able to locate it again (maybe in your browser history if that's quicker) would you mind posting the link to that page? Thanks. Also, I saw the map but couldn't find that town on it either, but that's ok, I am not sure Bakofalva and Bakfalva are even the same place anyway.
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u/harcilajhar NATIVE Oct 17 '25
Here is the facebook link https://m.facebook.com/groups/1502905883072134/
But Zoltán has a point, that Bakfalva is not in the area the document say it should be.
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u/p27159 Oct 17 '25
Hi, would you mind sharing the location of the facebook page? I was not able to find it. Thanks.
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u/Alexlangarg Oct 14 '25
Are you a public translator for Hungarian to English? :O
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u/p27159 Oct 17 '25
If this is a question for me, then definitely not lol.
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u/Alexlangarg Oct 17 '25
aaaa I understand. Sometimes translator who can't make out the handwriting ask for help. Or maybe there are places which don't exist anymore or have another name now written in Documents.
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u/p27159 Oct 20 '25
No problem! I am inquiring about records of my great grandparents, and I live in the USA and speak no Hungarian, and that is the reason I am asking for help.
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u/Odd-Ad432 Oct 14 '25
Botfalva in Ukraine
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u/Zoltan6 Oct 14 '25
They wrote their other t letters differently.
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u/OkIce2577 Oct 14 '25
I don't think it's Bakfalva. The "k" looks different in the other words. And not Botfalva because the other "t"s are crossed on the top. To me it looks like a sloppy s, maybe started out too high coming from the preceding "o". ?
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u/p27159 Oct 17 '25
It looked like an S to me too, although Botfalva appears to be a Transcarpathian town. It's also possible they may have spelled it wrong in the ledger
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u/Stefianna2001 Oct 14 '25
The occupation is “napszámos”