Cousin A and cousin B had managed to locate a city, timeframe and 3 surnames that they both shared in common! I didn't realise, but their Hungarian ancestry is in fact Szekley. The city they have both been able to find a connection to is Gyergyoszentmiklos, in Szekely Land, Romania. The surnames in common date back 8 generations making their common ancestors their GGGGGreat Grandparents approximately (my mother, cousin A and cousin B being of similar age). So they are in theory, 6th cousins. The 23andme prediction was 5th to distant cousins.
Cousin A tells me that the Szekely were a close community and that marriages within the community were common, so it is possible that these surnames they have found were all related to each other and it is impossible at this time to narrow the link down further.
On reading up about the Szekely, it seems that some moved to Bucovina in the second half of the 18th Century. Perhaps this included my ancestors-descendants who branched off from our common ancestors. This group seem to be the ones who later emmigrated to the USA in the late 19th Century, so it would make sense, or perhaps they married into a Hungarian family or a German family which later went on the the US.
What is interesting is that Bukovina is not far from the Galicia region, where my mother has other matches.
Really chuffed, it may be a distant connection, but it has made the connection solid!
