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Month: May 2013

Czech Land Record Transcription Process

Posted on 29 May 2013 by Kate Challis

I want to publicly pat myself on the back for correctly transcribing and translating page one (of two) of a 1799 Czech land record written in German current script, in Czech. This record is like a cross between a deed and a will; it has lots of information about the land, and who was going…

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Find-a-Grave and giving back

Posted on 19 May 2013 by Kate Challis

Hey! So, a lot to write about. Today I went to the 3S Genealogy Symposium hosted by the Friench Simpson Memorial Library in Hallettsville, TX. There were some excellent speakers, and I learned a lot. Enough for several blog posts. During the break, I went to the Hallettsville City Cemetery. I have some collateral lines…

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Genealogy look-ups at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church of Fayetteville, TX

Posted on 18 May 2013 by Kate Challis

St. John the Baptist Catholic Church is one of the earliest Czech Catholic churches in Texas. It is a valuable repository of Czech genealogical records that I am excited to use. From to the Fayetteville County History site: Many Czech and German immigrants settled in this area in the mid-1800s. After many years without the services…

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Search Strategy: Finding the Parish of a Village of Origin in the Czech lands using only online tools

Posted on 14 May 2013 by Kate Challis

So you have a name of a village in the Czech lands. You know that records must exist somewhere. You learn that they have likely been digitized and are available online, as part of a massive movement of many of the state and local archives in the CR to promote accessibility. The end goal is…

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Discrepancy between standards for temple submission and the GPS

Posted on 9 May 2013 by Kate Challis

I am working on submitting my ancestors’ names to the temple, where temple ordinances will be done in proxy for them. Here is a link that explains more about temple ordinance work. The purpose of this blog post is to point out an interesting discrepancy that I see between the bare minimum requirements to submit a name…

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Texas Immigration Agent Records: Private agent “F. Russek”, the North German Lloyd line, and a new repository of records!

Posted on 8 May 2013 by Kate Challis

My hunch was that I might find some advertisements for immigration agents in old newspapers. That hunch was verified in about two seconds. I’m in the midst of researching several immigration agents I found this way. One was a man in New York who brought at least 120 people from the German and Czech lands to…

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Texas Immigration Agents Records: Do they exist, and if so where to start?

Posted on 7 May 2013 by Kate Challis

The 30 September 1887 newspaper “the Galveston Daily News” contains the only known passenger list for a group of incoming Texas immigrants, the majority of whom were German and Czech. (located here, page 8). The arrival manifests were destroyed in the 1900 hurricane in Galveston. The Bremerhaven-Bremen departure lists only exist for the years 1920-1939 (accessible…

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The purpose of this blog

Posted on 7 May 20138 December 2017 by Kate Challis

Edited 2017 I am a fifth generation Texas Czech. I am passionate about history, research, and languages. I love the mystery of deciphering old documents and analyzing the information they contain to form an understanding of the past. I am particularly interested in Czech records and research. My enthusiasm and energy for genealogy is driven…

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