^{The News}
Dedicated to Austrian-Hungarian Burgenland Family History

Our regular tidbits include the monthly BB Facebook report, book sales, and some Words for Thought.

We conclude with our standard sections: A Historical BB Newsletter article, Ethnic Events and Emigrant Obituaries.



Feedback on the Prior Newsletter: The end-of-March newsletter motivated a number of readers to write to me... so I've decided to share some of the comments. One item that drew comment was the reprint of my "Proper Peasants: Family Structures" article of 10 years ago. That article summarized the section in the book "Proper Peasants: Traditional Life in a Hungarian Village," by Edit Fél and Tamás Hofer, about family structure, and I illustrated their ideas by showing a member's photograph of her ancestors. I'm going to give further details about one such comment in the bit below, but will also note that multiple people commented and that it also drew a comment on the BB Facebook page.



Separate from that, Richard Potetz wrote to me and commented about a number of things, but the one I'll mention relates to the MitoTree bit. Richard reports that his haplogroup did not change, so we now have an example where that proved true. Richard is an I3a1, a branch that separated in Persia from the main stem long before any descendants emigrated into Europe, thus its presence in Europe is both sparse and not concentrated in any one place. The FamilyTreeDNA report about I3a1 tells Richard that it has four named descendant lineages (I3a1a, I3a1d, I3a1e, I3a1f) and 35 unnamed lineages, and that there are only 85 mtDNA-tested descendants in the database used to build MitoTree. I suspect that the large number of unnamed lineages results both because of its rareness in European-descendant peoples (the major group who have had mtDNA tests performed) and its lack of concentration anywhere therein, making it less likely that tested individuals are more closely related. While Richard did not directly say so, I presume he has "unused" mutations that match no other tested person so he is the sole representative of one of those 35 unnamed lineages!



Barbara Wolf Shousha wrote to say (in part): Thank you for the newsletter. This edition is so informative! I appreciate the breadth of information - historical, current news, information on records. It is all very informative. I found the information on records and using FamilySearch very encouraging. So I appreciate all that you do to help people learn." My comment here is simply 'thank you Barbara for your message.' As editor and main author of the newsletter, it can become an echo chamber for me when I get no feedback. So please write to me and tell me what you like or don't like...comments of both varieties are helpful to me!



Further, I'll note that Theron Rogers wrote to tell me that "Clicking on the first link [in the newsletter notification email] takes me to this website which is blocked by Malwarebytes." Malwarebytes is a spam detection service that either Theron himself or his email service provider uses, and that service determined that the BB's bulk mail provider stats collection link was 1) the site that the link would send Theron to... it is not, rather the link takes him directly to our newsletter on the BB site (whereas the stats gathering portion of the full link tells us that Theron successfully received our email and chose to click our link), and 2) that the destination was somehow dangerous... it is not. We have run into this type of error before wherein a spam service misinterprets a link and falsely claims it is dangerous. These errors usually resolve themselves quickly, as our bulk mail provider, Sender.net, has tens of thousands of commercial clients who quickly report such problems when a spam detection service refuses its bulk mail. We are able to use Sender.net for free given the comparatively small size of our email list and the non-commercial purposes of our organization, and their stats collection feature lets me know that our messages are (mostly) getting through to our members.



Lastly, Bob Schatz reacted to my bit on the introduction of the mtDNA MitoTree by saying,

I thought it might be of interest to you to know that my distant cousin, the late Gottfried Schatz, was a member of the team of researchers who, in 1964, solidified the discovery of DNA in the mitochondria. Gottfried was born in Strem, and was a member of the faculty at both Cornell and the University of Basel. While his research was bio-chemical in nature, rather than concerned with evolutionary genetics, I thought the BB membership might be interested in knowing that this early work on mtDNA was conducted by someone who was born in Burgenland. A brief bio can be found on Wikipedia. The team is also mentioned in the Wikipedia article on mtDNA (under “History”).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Schatz
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_DNA

The published study may be found at:
sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0006291X64903110?via%3Dihub
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26410904/

Gottfried Schatz (18 Aug 1936–1 Oct 2015) obtained his PhD in chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Graz and then did postgraduate work at the University of Vienna before going to the US. After six years as a professor at Cornell University, he returned to Europe where he remained, being honored by numerous countries, including Austria, over his career for the work he did. After retirement, he was recognized in 2010 as the International Austrian of the Year.



"Proper Peasants" Feedback: It was Joseph Fleischhacker's message to me about "Proper Peasants" that prompted me to report on it in this separate bit. He provided a photograph and wrote (in part): "After reading your article in the latest BB newsletter about the book Proper Peasants and the rite of passage in becoming a “bachelor” I couldn’t help but think of a photo of my grandfather, Anton Fleischhacker born in Illlmic, Hungary in 1902. I’ve always wondered who the other young men in the photo were and why they were all dressed alike and holding cigarettes? Your description of bachelorhood explains the photo perfectly! By the way, my grandfather never smoked so seeing him hold a cigarette in this photo seemed very odd. He’s in the front row, second from the right. Thanks for the great info provided by all your hard work!"

Below-left is the photo Joseph shared, and below-right is a clip from the family image in the article of 10 years ago, wherein I noted that "the eldest son anchors the other end, by his grandfather, and is attired in a seemingly new suit":



In that article about the structure of peasant families in Hungary, I summarized what Fél and Hofer said about the roles of all individuals in the extended family, but I'll repeat below (in part) only that:

Younger sons and daughters (especially sons, as they can carry on the family name) are what Fél and Hofer call "the ornaments of the house" and are raised by the mother and grandparents. At six years of age they become school children, which they attend for six years.

Upon leaving school, a girl is considered "eladó" (marriageable), however a boy is merely considered "suttyó" (a youth). He moves to the kert where he is slowly taught the art of farming... Only when the art of reaping was learned, usually at age 16 or 17, could a boy be considered a full-fledged worker [and] a man.

Success at that graduated him to the life of a bachelor, where he was allowed to smoke in public and serve himself at table. He was also given a good suit, new boots and spending money, and began a short, irresponsible (but condoned) period of life known as the "bachelor's life." Bachelor life meant roaming every night with other bachelors... dancing, drinking and brawling. However, the bachelor's life ended at age 18 when a two-to-three-year period of military service began. Upon return from service, getting married and starting adult life became the goal and bachelorhood was no longer condoned.

I then returned in my article to the family image and claimed "As for the eldest son/grandson and his new suit, it seems likely that he had entered his bachelor life, still young but regarded as a man and allowed to be up front with the other adults. (Nonetheless, his facial expression suggests he might be happier out carousing with his friends!)"

It is the above description that helped Joseph understand his photo and that prompted him to write to me with his message above.

My reply (in part) was: "That sure looks like a group of bachelors to me! I’m pleased the article helped you make sense of this picture. However, I can’t take credit for the description as I was only paraphrasing the author’s words. I’m wondering if their time as bachelors was coming to an end, so they wanted a picture to memorialize it, as they do look to be on the older end of that time period."

Clearly, Joseph had recognized a bit of truth in Fél and Hofer's words that correlated with his own family experience. The others who wrote about the article also stated that they recognized the described family roles in the stories told to them by their grandparents or even parents, and that these roles held even into the 1950s in Burgenland.



More Sludge Removed From Lake Neusiedl: The project to rehabilitate the Neusiedlersee continues, with a reported additional 43,000 cubic meters of sludge being removed from it over the winter. Further, around ten kilometers of reed channels were repaired. About 60,000 cubic meters of sludge was removed from key boating channels the previous winter, while this winter's work concentrated on desilting port facilities, entrances and swimming beach areas along the lakeside, as well as mud removal from the key fishing areas of Gols Bay.

The process involves semi-liquid extraction via sludge pumps on excavators and barges and piping it into settling basins where the soft wet sludge is dewatered over the summer months before the sediment is transported to agricultural land to improve the soil. The amount withdrawn this year was lower because one of the five settling basins was being brought up to the state of the art, thus reducing dewatering capacity, however, all will be available next winter as this project continues.

The dredging project, as well as the effort to establish a water supply from the Danube, are intended to preserve Lake Neusiedl in the long term. The current water level remains satisfactory, as it is higher than the previous year and the lake is almost half a meter deeper than in 2023, when it set a modern low. The desilting and resulting increased depth of key areas also increases the usability of the lake.



Asparagus Season Underway In Burgenland: The asparagus (spargel) harvest began this week in Seewinkel, which compared to previous years is a later start than usual. Due to the weather, only white asparagus is being harvested as the unsettled weather of the previous weeks postponed the start of the harvest by a good ten days.

Illmitz (district of Neusiedl am See) is considered the asparagus stronghold and Andreas Haider grows asparagus there on ten hectares (~25 acres). The sought-after vegetables are protected from the cold with foils and a layer of soil but the asparagus would prefer some rain and sun, says Haider. It rained, but then it got cold and that was not so favorable, he says, but this year it is not as bad as other years when it was freezing cold and the frost even went under the foils. The sandy, salty soil in Illmitz offers ideal conditions for growing asparagus, and white asparagus, which grows underground, unexposed to sunlight, is currently being cut. It is still too cold for green asparagus, Haider says, which requires exposure to the sun to produce chlorophyll and its green color. The foil layer he uses traps warmth and blocks light, both necessary to grow white asparagus this early in the spring, but as external temperatures rise, the foil traps too much heat so must be removed, which starts the green asparagus season.

Nothing can be said about the expected harvest volume, as it will depend on the weather. Asparagus only grows with a soil temperature of 10°C (50°F), so cold nights are anything but ideal. Therefore, Haider wishes for sunshine and only a little rain for the next few weeks. The Haider family supplies the local gastronomy with their asparagus as well as thermal spa hotels throughout Burgenland. The price this year will be at the same level as last year at seven to ten euros per kilo ($3.60-$5.20 per pound). In any case the harvest will continue until the end of June.



Burgenland Evangelisch Record Images: I have been reporting for a number of months that the images of the matrikal records of the Burgenland Evangelisch churches (both classical Lutheran [Augsburg / A.B.] and classical Calvinist / Reformed [Helvetic / H.B.] confessions) were being placed online at data.matricula-online.eu/de/oesterreich/burgenland-ab-hb/. However, progress seems to have halted.

Over the first two months of the year, 22 of the 29 parishes were uploaded. But last month I reported only one parish was added, and since then nothing has changed. We still await five A.B. parishes (Kobersdorf, Nickelsdorf, Oberwart, Rechnitz, Siget) and one H.B. parish (Oberwart).



Ratschengehen: I read this past month about a Burgenland Catholic Easter tradition that I was previously unaware of: Ratschengehen (ratcheting / ratchet walking). As a bit of background, I was aware of the Easter tradition in many Christian churches where the church altar is stripped of decoration and the church bells fall silent on Maundy Thursday to symbolically recognize the sadness and loss due to the suffering and death of Christ, and so remaining until Easter morning and the celebration of the resurrection of Christ from the dead.

However, I was unaware of a tradition in southern Germany and Austria that goes back to the 6th century where the bells are replaced by an alternate way to announce the need to pray: the use of wooden "ratchets."

What is a ratchet you say? An example might be where kids attached baseball cards to a bike frame to be snapped by the spokes to make the sound of a motor... but real ratchets are much louder and harsher! These are wooden devices with a toothed wheel that snaps lengths of thin wood to make their sound, many with multiple lengths being snapped. Some drive the wheel by pushing a bigger wheel along the ground. Others drive the wheel by whirling the contraption around a stick axel. Still others are hand-cranked.

In Illmitz in Burgenland, the preferred ratchet is the wheeled variety (see right), and this year 77 children aged six to fourteen went around the village three times a day to call for prayer and remind people of church services. Up to 80 children and young people register for "Ratschengehen" every year, and it is often the case that the younger ones replace older siblings who previously served in the role.

On Good Friday and Holy Saturday, the day for the ratchet children begins at 5.45 a.m. The young people walk through the streets and alleys of the community three times a day with their ratchets and shout their slogan at the top of their voices: "We ratchet, we ratchet, the English greeting that every Catholic Christian must pray. Fall down on a knee and pray an Our Father and three Hail Marys". Many people give the ratchet children sweets and a little money. As a thank you, a trip to an alpaca farm in Frauenkirchen is planned for the ratchet team.

Below are examples of hand-cranked and whirled ratchets.



In Illmitz a modern tradition has also been initiated for during this time: no mobile phones. According to pastor Günter Schweifer, "So far it has worked. The nice thing is that everyone brings their games, because we spend the time between breakfast and the next ratcheting together."



The Facebook Bunch (from Vanessa Sandhu):

Greetings, Burgenland Bunch!

I hope that you are enjoying the beautiful spring weather! We had a great month in our group. We added 10 new members, bringing out membership count to 2319. Please join us if you haven't done so already! facebook.com/share/

Member Steve Huber shared some cheerful music to start the month off right. Steve and his band, The Happy Austrians, can be heard here performing “Schneider Tut So Weh”: facebook.com/share/p/16Sdsr8pKW/

Member Fred Knarr shared an update for anyone traveling to Austria and Burgenland soon. He writes, “Please be aware that many of the smaller border crossings will be closed until May 20. Once again after 50 years, cases of hoof and mouth disease have been found in Hungary. This might impact your cross border choices.” Fred also shared a great link that covers German, Hungarian and Burgenland-Croatian books, dictionaries, vocabulary lessons, videos, etc. for kids. You can find it here: facebook.com/share/p/16VTi2DANY/

Member Janet Kroboth-Weber shared a cool link featuring a short train route on the Hungarian-Burgenland border, including Neusiedlersee, Eisenstadt, Sopron, and the legendary storks! Bahngeschichten aus dem Burgenland


Member Barbara Gibian Heinrich shared some beautiful photos of the synagogue in Schlaining, as well as some photos of Großpetersdorf, circa 1985.

Member Ingrid Fleischer shared some big news from the Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár (National Archives of Hungary)! Over 5 million pages of civil registers from the agglomeration of Budapest are now digitized and accessible online. Discover births, marriages, and deaths from 1895 to 1980 and explore family histories like never before! You can read more about it here:  archivesportaleurope.net/agglomeration

Member Franz Stangl shared some great photos and videos of the Palm Sunday procession and Good Friday festivities in Güssing.

Some upcoming events for those in and around the Lehigh Valley area:

- The Coplay Sängerbund will be hosting its annual Maifest on Sunday, May 4th, 2025 from 3-6 pm. Dave Betz will be performing, as will the Auerhahn Schuhplattlers! It is always a great time. The Heritage Committee does a wonderful job!

- On Thursday, May 1st, WMUH presents The Alex Meixner Band at the Coplay Sängerbund! Doors open at 5:30 pm, and music starts at 7 pm. Tickets are $20, and you can purchase them here: whennow.com/event/the-alex-meixner-band. Hope to see you there!

Until next time, stay safe and healthy!

Vanessa



Update for book "The Burgenländer Emigration to America": Here is this month's update on purchases of the English issue of the 3rd edition of Dr. Walter Dujmovits' book "Die Amerika-Wanderung Der Burgenländer."

Current total sales are 1843 copies, as interested people purchased 5 books during this past month.

As always, the book is available for online purchase at a list price of $8.89 (which is the current production charge for the book, as we purposely choose not to make any profit so you can obtain the book at as low a cost as possible!), plus tax & shipping. See the BB homepage for a link to the information / ordering page.

The book is an excellent read for the Burgenländers in your family!



Burgenland Recipes: (none this month... got one for us?)



Note: Our recipes sortable list has links directly to the recipes or food-related articles published in our past newsletters. You can access the list by clicking our recipe box (to the right). Thanks to the contributions of our members over the years, we have quite a collection of Burgenland recipes, some with several variations.

However, whenever we use up our unpublished recipes, this recipe section will become dormant. So, if you have a favorite family recipe, please consider sharing it with us. We will be happy to publish it. Our older relatives, sadly, aren't with us forever, so don't allow your favorite ethnic dish to be lost to future generations.

You can send your recipe to BB Recipes Editor, Alan Varga. Thanks!



Words for Thought:

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times.
 But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide
 is what to do with the time that is given us.”

              ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Gerry writes: The Internet has been plagued with criminal activity as well as trash and misleading information. It seems as if there is no end to it. I often wonder what some people get out of feeding us problems. In the final analysis, I guess it just behooves us to be ever on the alert to Internet and computer misuse in the same way we've learned to deal with other criminal activity and poor television, radio and publishing. As in everything else, a little common sense and use of the delete button goes a long way. Let's not let Internet problems defeat our objectives.

It seems the latest topic intended to turn us off is scare data being published which tells us if we aren't careful, criminals will steal our identity by using what we post on the Internet - particularly data posted on genealogical and family history sites like our own BB. That this is obviously garbage requires only a limited intelligence. What do we post? Your name (which can be found most anywhere), your city and state of residence, family names you are researching and their places of origin and settlement.

None of us live in a vacuum and this sort of data is in the public domain in countless files, phone books, voter lists, etc. In fact most, if not all identity theft comes about from stolen credit cards, automobile licenses, etc. I'm also sure that any criminal stealing your purse, wallet or mail or going through un-shredded trash can cause identity theft. By all means protect them and your social security number. The following extract deals with identity theft as it relates to Internet Genealogical sites.

The RootsWeb Review article was titled "Private Concerns," and was written in an era when RootsWeb was a vital part of early computer-based genealogical research. RootsWeb hosted family trees and genealogical message boards, provided archive space and mailing list capabilities, hosted census transcriptions and other types of transcribed and computerized research data, and did so for free by utilizing a network of volunteers to operate it all. The BB still connects to one relic of that early material, our "Queries" link to the now Ancestry-hosted Rootsweb message board for Burgenland that our staff has moderated since those early RootsWeb days. A quick look tells me that the most recent new entry on that board is dated Dec 2023, so it seems its time is coming to an end. These days, our Burgenland Bunch Facebook page is the go-to resource for the kind of questions it once answered... and I recommend you use it.

But back to the old days... here are the kind of security concerns that RootsWeb felt were necessary to address in 2005:

Question: What can I do if I find private information about myself and my living family members published at RootsWeb?

Answer: That depends upon the nature of the "private" information and where you have found it. Most information about living individuals is not considered "private" and it is widely accessible. Names, dates, and places are public, not private, information.

Question: I'm concerned about identity theft and worry that if information about my family is found at RootsWeb it could lead to my identity being stolen.

Answer: "Identify theft" has become a buzz word, but it is a misnomer. Actually in most instances it refers to credit card theft and most of that happens offline.

A recent survey reported on the Better Business Bureau website indicates that the vast majority of so-called "identity theft" cases involve "paper" theft -- not Internet theft. Even the cases that do involve the Internet are the result of computer viruses, spyware, stolen passwords, and "phishing" scams and are not due to information found on genealogy websites. Genealogy websites do not even represent a blip on the radar of this problem.

As we all know, internet-based theft of credit card information and identity-related data is now our reality in 2025, but I think the point being made by Gerry and by RootsWeb, that the type of data stored on genealogical websites is of little interest to credit and identity thieves, especially if you follow good practices for passwords (don't use your mother's surname or birth date for these!). We at the BB have never had anyone claim that data on our site compromised their identity or credit security.

However, in our early years we received too-frequent messages that the writer's email address was obtained from our site (without any evidence that such was true) and caused them to suffer excess spam. The May 2015 article discusses (indirectly) the one time I think that was true.



In the March 2015 newsletter, much like as in this newsletter, I included a "feedback on the prior newsletter" section. The one I want to repeat herein is actually quite short (just two paragraphs) but I need to set it up by reprinting part of the February article that caused the reader to respond.

That February article was written because a BB member had forwarded to one of our staff members an email message purportedly from the FBI that claimed "Your e-mail account has been hacked." Our staff member noted that many email addresses were included in the "CC:" section and, after looking it over, forwarded it to me saying "Looks like these addressees might be BBers." So now let me quote from that February 2015 article:

I then spent some considerable time looking at the list of email addresses. Many were, indeed, addresses of BB members... however, perhaps a quarter of them were "near misses" to valid BBer email addresses!

I scratched my head about this for a while (figuratively only!) before figuring out why some of the addresses were wrong (knowing how they were wrong is key to understanding where the addresses came from). I'll tell you more about that in a minute... but first I need to step back a bit and give you some background information...

Early 2006... that is when the BB first installed anti-robot coding to frustrate electronic harvesting of BB member email addresses. Prior to that time, we would receive nearly monthly complaints that inclusion of someone's email address on our pages led to a great increase in spam received by that person. Whether such claims were true or not, the BB chose to act to help ensure that we were not a cause and to alleviate worries about our web security. Since then, complaints about spam have gone way down, with the occasional reported issue almost certainly being caused by some personal email address book that was hacked rather than by our pages being harvested.

When our member sent her message and it became apparent that, this time, our pages were likely the source of the listed email addresses, we were concerned. It turns out that we had one group of pages (the Member pages) that provided email addresses in a way that did not use our anti-robot code. These pages listed pseudo email addresses in a "visible" manner, that is, by replacing the @ character with a picture of an @ character: and then arranging the rest of the email address before and after that picture. So, an address like name@isp.com was presented as (nameisp.com).

The reason for this approach is that, if the text is captured and saved in a plain-text editor, the picture is lost and the email address becomes nameisp.com, which is not a valid address and is not useful. However, for a lot of common email addresses (for example, gmail.com addresses), it is easy to see where the @ character should go: namegmail.com obviously should be name@gmail.com! This is what happened for the email that was forwarded to us. The spammer captured our page, found text strings in it that could be email addresses and inserted @ characters in likely spots. She then used these constructed email addresses in a spam message.

As I noted above, probably a quarter of the constructed email addresses were invalid. These were the ones that were not obvious: the address had an ISP that was less well-known or it was complicated enough to confuse easy, programmatic reconstruction. One example is this invalid address: hannes.grafthe-burgenland@bunch.org.

Perhaps you recognize it? It is a malformation of the address that Member Editor Hannes Graf uses. The correct address would have the @ character after hannes.graf and would have a dash where the @ character is currently. The spammer did not understand that the ISP section for this address was the-burgenland-bunch.

Why, you may ask, did we have these pseudo email addresses on the Member pages? The answer is that BB founder Gerry Berghold wanted the addresses visible somewhere, so if someone want to print them out (say, Gerry himself) then they would be available. Gerry, of course, died in 2008... but the pseudo email addresses remained. They were not causing problems (at least until now) so why remove them?

OK, I've described how this occurred... but the important question is what did we do to avoid this problem in the future? We did the obvious thing: we removed the pseudo email addresses from our pages. If they are not there, they can not be extracted. We offer our apologies for what happened... but, better yet, can also tell you that it will not happen again!

The actual February article was substantially longer than this clip, but it is enough for you to understand the March 2025 feedback that I wanted to repeat, so here it is:

Randy Gradwohl, with tongue buried deep in cheek, wrote to claim "I found your story about the phishing scheme interesting but must call you out on one point. One line read, 'The hacker captured our page, found text strings in it that could be email addresses and inserted @ characters in likely spots. He then used these constructed email addresses in a spam message.' The use of the word 'he' in this article offends me. You jumped to the conclusion that the perpetrator was a male. I was born male and have to say I am damn proud of my heritage and to see someone automatically pin such activities to persons of my gender is insulting. Such sexist attitudes and negative representations of the male gender must stop!"

We had a fun exchange based on that wherein I agreed I had insulted us men (especially myself) and, as a result, chose to change the pronoun to "she," as I hate the "(s)he" construct and thought you ladies out there deserved a little bad-girl vibe! Randy suggested I use the universal pronoun, one formed from the contraction and combination of she, he and it. I won't give it here (only four letters, so I'm sure you can work it out) and I didn't use it but I will note that it is particularly appropriate for hackers and spammers!

So that was ten years ago. I still think the "universal pronoun" has it uses but, more importantly, claims that the BB is at fault for excess spam have pretty much disappeared. Our anti-robot coding of email address continues to frustrate electronic harvesting of BB member email addresses, and that is good. Beyond that, we continue to ask for only "public" identifying information and have never asked for credit card information or private data like social security numbers. For that reason, we are not a security risk for our members, which pleases me.

However, the online world today, whether via your computer or phone, can be a dangerous place and you must remain diligent. We will continue to be too.

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