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Month: December 2013

Kolaches

Posted on 6 December 2013 by Kate Challis

Today I made a ton of bread and kolaches. Technically these are klobasnik, but in Texas Czech culture, they are called kolaches. Aka pig in there blanket. I used whole wheat flour. It is definitely not as silky delicious as a traditional kolache dough, but healthier and still very, very tasty. The sausage was from…

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Step by step transcription of interchangeable letters.

Posted on 4 December 2013 by Kate Challis

When analyzing old Czech records, expect certain letters to be interchangeable. For example, there wasn’t a distinction between v and w. I have heard Texas Czechs from my grandpa’s generation say, “Vesele Walentine’s day.” Here is an example of a text that uses j, ý, y, i, and í almost interchangeably. This is from a…

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Why You Should Index!

Posted on 3 December 2013 by Kate Challis

I’m going to step on my soapbox and give a plug for Familysearch Indexing. If you have a computer and can read, you can index. Indexing is the process of typing the information from records into a massive database so they become searchable. Every record you index is important. It can be the key for somebody…

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Church Record Sunday: Johann Mladinka

Posted on 1 December 2013 by Kate Challis

Here’s a registry entry from yesterday’s post from the parish register in Trojanovice where so many died from Typhus.  Here’s a transcription: [died:] 18 January 1848 [buried:] 20 January 1848 [some type of clergy?:] Franz Kaschek, ročz [?]  [another type of clergy?:] Valentine Ziczek Řapellau [?] [deceased:] Johann Mladinka, tischler [carpenter] Pasekar [farmer on cleared land] in…

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