My Hevezi/Szillagyi family is amazingly big! – Here’s a bit of an explanation of where everyone falls in. I hope this helps a little. For anyone who is still living, I left off dates out of privacy and didn’t add anyone from the 4th generation. Joseph and Elizabeth Szillagyi Margaret Szillagyi(1894-1981)/Martin Hevezi Joseph Szillagyi…
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Martin and Margaret Hevezi-The Beginning
My Great-Grandparents both immigrated to the United States from Hungary. According to immigration records, Martin Hevezi arrived in the U.S. in 1906 at the age of 28. He first settled in The Miner’s Village in Cornwall, Pennsylvania, about 80 miles west of Philadelphia. He worked as an iron mill laborer. At the time, many immigrants…
Szillagyi – The Name
My Great-Great-Grandparents came to the United States in the early 1900’s from Hungary. I always found it fascinating that names were misspelled, or changed when coming through Ellis Island, either by error or as a way to “Americanize”. When I was researching my great-grandma her last name kept coming up with different spellings and…
My Story & Theirs 