Hello Florian, it was not a bad deal, because nowadays in the Serbian Banat (for example near Kikinda) the price of a hectare of good quality farmland is around 8-9 thousand euros (and getting more an

Yes, one of my cousins got back 20 hectares of land near Kikinda and was paid an additional 25,000 euros for the small workshop that was confiscated from his grandfather and nationalised by the commun

Hi there, Here's what i can say about it for my family. My family "Sabolowitsch" had submitted the restitution application relatively early. My family research helped me a lot here. Our restitution ap

Hello Louis, if my information are correct, the Serbian Restitution Agency has received about 80,000 applications for restitution of property (land, real estate), of which about 50,000 have been proce

Has anyone had success reclaiming confiscated family homes/land? Louis

Hello Florian and everybody, I don't know if you meant me, but I have the following Csatád/Lenauheim Roman Catholic church books, which were photographed on my behalf last year by a professional photo

I seem to remember that I read here on the list that one of our listmates offered Lenauheim church books for sale, which he/she had photographed in the archives in Timisoara. But maybe I'm remembering

Thank you Joe, I am fully aware of the revised and extended family book by Dietmar Giel. He nicely answered several detailed questions on my relatives from Csadat. However, I was asking for the possib

Hello Florian, Of such events, I must have heard of hundreds of times. Here is one: https://hrastovac.net/personal-recollections/stefan-steve-torau/ Greetings from Vancouver Island, Rosina T. Schmidt

Rudolf, There is a family book for Lenauheim (Csatad) by Dietmar Giel that covers 1767-2005. The book is out of print; it is available at the Family History Library and a few libraries in Germany, but

Hello Rosina! You may be right. One of my great great-uncles (Johann Rick) moved out to Detroit from Banat with his whole family in 1909, and in 1913 they went back to Gross-Sanktnikolaus and bought a

Thank you, Tibor, For this information. We are not to forget that at those times our people went foremost to the Americas to earn money and come back home to buy a farm, or to expand the farm. Their i

Hello Terrie, Some of my roots are in Csadat (one grandfather born in house 47), but due to the dispersed places of my family I never went beyond the (old) family book on Lenauheim available in the ne

Dear List Members, I would like to draw your attention to an interesting church book entry. I came across this list in the Roman Catholic baptismal register of Sackelhausen (in Hungarian Szakálháza, t

Just to let you know, I have photos of each page of the parish church records for Csatad/Lenauheim, and they start in 1767. More specifically, I have BMD 1766-1805, BD 1796-1804, M 1798-1835, B 1804-1

Leah, Thank you for answering me and thanks for the offer to send what you found on the Jurasits family. I've found little on these lines so anything might help. Linda In a message dated 1/20/2023 9:1

Liebe Brigitte, Diese Nachricht ist fuer uns alle sehr traurig. Herr Hoffmann hat vor Jahren seine Arbeit ueber Franzjosefsfeld in Bosnia (jetzt Petrovo Polje) https://hrastovac.net/bosnia/ mit uns ge

Linda - The records online don't go back that far. There are records on family search in the images (not indexed) that are from like 1828-1848. I haven't looked through all of those. Here is the link:

Leah, I noticed you had said you were working in Resita records. Could you check for me and see if you can find a Lorenz Jurasits/Juraschitz born around 1808? Thanks, Linda Curths In a message dated 1

Hello all! Looking for family information (parents/marriage/children) for Nikolaus Hoffmann born 7/18/1873. Please send to msperrucci@.... Thanks in advance for your help.