Re: Beckers Canada and Hungary

Hi, Barbara -

This is just a thought. Seeing as how I can't find any town by the name Bocar in what is Hungary today, I have the following question:Could the town you are looking for be Bocar (pronounced BOH-CHAR with the first h being silent)located less that ten km outside of Kikinda in what is today Serbia (but was Hungary back then)?If so, then Kikinda has a wonderfully preserved archive and you may find records on your Beckers there.Here's the address for the archive there:
Arhiv Kikinde
Marsala Tita 3/1
23300 Kikinda
Yugoslavia
For info on what complications you may run into when researching the YU archives as a foreigner please check out our ARCHIVES page at www.Serbia-Today.com.Also here are four listings from the online Serbian telephone directory for BEKER (that's how German-Serbian BECKERS now spell the name)in Zrenjanin.i listed Zrenjanin because it's the closest city to Kikinda and even closer to Bocar.Could they be relatives?Area code = +381 23

41592BekerFirutaJug Bogdana7Zrenjanin
42107BekerLidijaJug Bogdana7/3Zrenjanin
543963BekerRadaBolmanska32Zrenjanin
540374BekerZoltanBratstva I Jedinstva2 AaZrenjanin

Enjoy and good luck!Let us know if there's anything else we can do (assuming, of course, that I may be right as to the Bocar that you are looking for)!
Best regards,
Danica Radisic-Visnjic
The Serbian Genealogy Foundation
www.Serbia-Today.com
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