Greetings.
After 3 weeks of digging into my Ehasz roots back to my great great Grandfather Gabor Ihasz and great grandfather Benjamin (Beno) Ehasz I have come across a twist.
There is a record of a Gabor Jhasz and Katalin Pordan baptizing a son Gabor Jhasz in Romand Vezprem in 1873.
Gabor Ihasz and Katalin baptized Rozi Ihasz in the same place a year earlier.
In 1880 they were in Nyarad where Mari , Beno, Imre (two of them?) and Sandor were baptized.
Can someone tell me the difference between Ihasz and Jhasz? And does this in any way explain the difference in pronunciation my grandfather insisted our name was supposed to sound like? He said Ehasz was an A sound like 8 and Ahouse. But the Hungarian sound for I is EEE which explains how Ihasz came to be spelled with an E.
Thanks in advance.
Mark