BONFIRE: Vizsla Pedigree Databases & A Bit of History

June 2025 "The VIZSLA ... Friends & Stories" Knit & Purled by Gonzetta (A Real Fake Name)

“MAYOR OF MUDSVILLE, THE JUDGE & JURY”; Photo by Gonzetta

The Vizsla Pedigree Database and Facebook Page are PUBLIC Sources. There will be discussions added to this page to solve mysteries, conundrums and try to figure out what the heck really happened. While this page is in the CAMPFIRE Section, Commentors must be Paid Subscribers.

• All of my Geek Pedigree Mentors say GO TO THE ORIGINAL SIN which for most breeds is their first Registry Records. VIZSLAS do not have that.

• That does not happen to Vizsla Researchers and Authors. The original 1920 Registries “may” not exist. The mystery becomes … when did they die, which ones died, where did they die and could one still exist … remains a hopeful mystery. Regardless this “Megazine on a Notebook” will try to find out and tell us what happened.

• There is a second set of Vizsla Studbooks (composed from 1945 in Budapest to sometime in the fifties. Mihaly Kende was the Hungarian Secretary throughout that period of time. They found their way to be lost too inside the Hungarian Revolution and following. Kende was able to write up an evalation as to what happened from 1945 to maybe 1960 in 1965. Since then only ONE copy of Kende’s document has shown up … in Canada, written in Hungarian, at the bottom of the national Canadian Club’s Archives in a box donated to Vizsla Canada by Bill Kemenes-Kettner of western Canada. That document lay for fifty-plus years. It was the discovery of Karyn Orzseszko who was currently living in Canada, gave it to Kata Poor to translate, and the 2nd Studbook was recovered for Hungary. I don’t remember the year that this happened but it was around 2005?

• So … then there is the other problem with Vizsla Studbooks who seem to have lives of nine cats. During the post WWII Re-foundation, (There were two Re-foundations inside Hungary) some 1920 Registration Numbers were given to post 1945 yellow Vizslas that likely had no pedigree and it was destroyed in WWII or the 1956 Hungarian Revolution