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Banat Genealogy Resources

History of German Settlements in Southern Hungary
On the FEEFHS website

Finding the village of origin
On the FEEFHS website

Banat primary sources
On the FEEFHS website

Banat - The Romanian GAP
On the FEEFHS website

Banaters in North Dakota Naturalization Records
On the FEEFHS website

North Dakota Banat Passenger Ship Records
On the FEEFHS website

Banat Passenger Ship Records - Background
On the FEEFHS website

North Dakota Banaters in WWI Draft Cards
On the FEEFHS website

Journey to Johannisfeld
On the FEEFHS website

Names from Kernei, Batschka, and Privlaka, Syrmien
On the FEEFHS website

Finding Aid to Hodschag
On the FEEFHS website


Maps and Gazetteers

From the FEEFHS Map Library:
Banat Region - central Hungary 1882
Torontal, Banat 1910

On the FEEFHS website:
Banat - Batschka towns
Banat village names
Villages in Yugoslavian Baranja
Banat - Slavonia towns
Banat - Syrmien towns


Societies and organizations

Zichydorf Village Association - the first Banat village association

Donauschwaben Heritage Society

United Donauschwaben of Milwaukee - The largest German Ethnic Group in Wisconsin

Arbeitskreis donauschwaebischer Familienforscher

Liebling Village Association
On the FEEFHS website


Banat regional names, followed by modern jurisdictions and geographical boundaries:

Banat: now in modern Romania and Yugoslavia (Serbia--eastern part of Vojvodina).
Historical boundaries:
North: Maros River;
East: foothills of the Transylvanian Alps;
South: Danube (Donau) River;
West: Tisza/Tisa (Theiss) River.

Bacs (Batschka): Yugoslavia (Serbia--western part of Vojvodina).
Boundaries:
North: roughly the current border of the Bacs-Bodrog county;
East: Tisza/Tisa (Theiss) River;
South and West: Danube (Donau) River

Baranya (Baranja): Partly in modern Croatia and partly in modern Hungary.
Boundaries:
North: roughly near Pecs, Hungary;
East: Danube (Donau) River;
South: Drava River;
West: Roughly near Szigethar, Hungary

Slavonia (Slawonien): Croatia, between the Drava and Sava rivers

Srem (Syrmien): roughly Yugoslavia/Serbia, between the Sava and Danube (Donau) Rivers


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