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Profession:
Active genealogical researcher and jurist; founder and CEO of EverGens Europe Ltd., a Hungarian genealogical and citizenship services company.

Geographical Areas of Research:
Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and the broader Central European region.

Discipline of Research and Professional Activities:
Genealogy (Hungarian noble, urban civilian, and Jewish family histories), historical demography, archival studies, local and regional history, Judaica provenance research, and the provision of comprehensive citizenship services.

Proficiency in Research:
Fourteen years of research experience.
Extensive archival and online research proficiency, supported by a professional network of archivists and trained specialists across Central Europe.
Paleographic competence in Latin, German, Hebrew, and Hungarian source materials.

Research Achievements:
I have traced my paternal Jewish lineage—the Eckstein, later Erdős family—back to the first half of the 19th century in what is now Slovakia.
My paternal grandmother’s line, the Szent-Ivány family—an established Hungarian noble lineage—has been documented back to the 13th century.

Current Research Directions:
Ongoing investigations into Central European Jewish communities, as well as both noble and non-noble genealogies of historic Hungary, together with the provenance and restitution of genealogically significant Judaica removed from Hungary. Current work focuses on cross-border archival reconstruction and community-level historical contexts.

Surnames Researched:
Eckstein / Erdős, Kothgasser, Szent-Ivány, Kohn, Singer, Spitz, Pevny (full list available upon request).

Publications:
– “Egy régi városkönyv kalandos élete” (The Adventurous Life of an Old Town Book), a scholarly analysis of the oldest municipal record of Németlipcse (Partizánska Ľupča, Slovakia), co-authored with medievalist Tibor Neumann and Slavist György Rágyanszki, published in the academic journal Lymbus.
– Several co-authored studies with historian Dr. Péter Nagy on the post–Second World War pogrom in Ózd (Hungary), including the first published comprehensive list of the victims.

Publications/Media
“Egy régi városkönyv kalandos élete” (The Adventurous Life of an Old Town Book), a scholarly analysis of the oldest municipal record of Németlipcse (Partizánska Ľupča, Slovakia), co-authored with medievalist Tibor Neumann and Slavist György Rágyanszki, published in the academic journal Lymbus.
Several co-authored studies with historian Dr. Péter Nagy on the post–Second World War pogrom in Ózd (Hungary), including the first published comprehensive list of the victims.

Research Time Periods

• 21st Century
• 20th Century
• 19th Century
• 18th Century
• 17th Century
• 16th Century and Earlier

Languages
English – fluent
Hungarian – fluent
German – working translation proficiency
Source-reading proficiency in German (including Kurrentschrift), Hebrew, Yiddish, Latin, and Hungarian archival records

Honorifics/Credentials
Registered Researcher, Budapest City Archives (BFL)
Registered Researcher, National Archives of Hungary (MNL)

Affiliations
Chief Executive Officer, EverGens Europe Ltd.
Member, Hungarian Society for Family History Research (MACSE)
Member, Hungarian Heraldry and Genealogical Society (MHGT)
Member, Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA)
Member, Association for Central European Jewish History & Genealogy (CEJHG)

Degrees
Master of Arts in Law