The Apr 29, 2007 issue of Nu? What's New? provides a list of articles to appear in the Spring 2007 issue of Avotaynu. According to the newsletter, "Carole Vogel and Yitzchok Stroh push past the brick wall that exist for the time prior to the period when Jews acquired hereditary surnames; circa 1800. The authors demonstrate that with sufficient data there are enough clues to identify individuals without surnames. The article is titled “Constructing a Town-Wide Genealogy: Jewish Mattersdorf, Hungary, 1698–1939.”"

That could easily be an interesting read for family historians seeking Jewish ancestry in the Habsburg Empire.