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Küldetésben – Rudolf László (II. rész)
- Issue: 2021/3
- Starting page: 36
- Serie: A történelem országútján
- Author: Kóka Rozália
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On the Path of History – Kóka Rozália’s series. Part 2. Rudolf László was born in Bátaszék in Hungary’s Tolna County in the 1950s. His mother was from Józseffalva/Vornicenii Mici, Bukovina. He grew up amongst his mother’s family – all Székely Hungarians from Bukovina. He went to Bukovina for the first time in 1981 with his mother to visit her home village. He was deeply moved and returned to the village many, many times over the next four years. As a result he became interested in tracing the family tree of his Bukovina relatives. A computer programmer by trade he developed his own computer program for mapping family trees out from Józseffalva’s church birth, death and marriage records. Later the project extended to mapping out family trees of the whole village. Then he took on the same project for other Bukovina Székely villages, working from church records with his computer program. In the process he also amassed a sizable collection of photographs and became active in an international organization of people from Bukovina. From a conversation recorded on February 25, 2021.