Today was another breakthrough in my family history. I found a website which had the “Kuelt” name, however it was written in a language that I couldn’t decipher — it wasn’t German. I tried all sorts of translations on it, and finally figured out it was Hungarian. But I know nothing about Hungarian, so I put it on the back-burner… until today.

 

I had an all-day meeting at work. One of the members of the meeting was from Canada, and at lunchtime he was showing us his international keyboard, with special characters on it. And you’ll never guess which language his keyboard was designed for — Hungarian!!

 

Is that serendipity or what?????

 

His name is Gabor Moos, and he gladly interpreted portions of the Hungarian website for me. He didn’t do the whole thing, but he gave me enough information about the Kuelt family from Hungary. In short, he said that in 1748 there was a big fire in Hungary, which destroyed 24 homes, which housed three families, one of which was the Kuelt family (the other two were Lohnsinger and Weber). All three families moved to Bubsheim, Germany in 1750.