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Month: April 2017

Church Record Sunday: Velké Heraltice 1737, pálení čarodějnic, “I’m not a witch, I’m your wife!”

Posted on 30 April 2017 by Kate Challis

Today is pálení čarodějnic in the Czech Republic. It is a holiday for celebrating…witch burning. Whereas in the United States, the only time of the year that we really think about witches, broomsticks, and spooky stories told around campfires is at the end of October with Halloween, in the Czech world on the evening of April…

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Tuesday’s Tip: Backwards Searches using Národní archiv site badatelna.eu!

Posted on 25 April 2017 by Kate Challis

How do you do a backwards search from a badatelna.eu link? Recently I have been using www.badatelna.eu for some client research. This is the website for the National Archives of the Czech Republic, aka Nárdoní archiv. Sometimes, you end up with a link to an image. I was trying desperately to figure out the book…

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Gender, the temple, and another reason to learn some Czech

Posted on 23 April 2017 by Kate Challis

In order to do proxy temple work for your ancestors, you need four things: a name, a date, a place, and a gender. This last category is because people who stand as proxy are either women or men. After I first went through the temple for my own endowment and started doing it by proxy…

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Watch out for that final a!

Posted on 19 April 2017 by Kate Challis

I was doing some research for my own Frenštát ancestors. Here is a link to this 26 April 1784 birth. A very quick glance with my tired eyes, and at first I saw, “Johann Chodurin.” I should have noticed three things: 1. There is a third little nožičky – what looks like a final “n” is…

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Church Record Sunday: Holešov, 1650’s Pythagorean Theorem

Posted on 16 April 2017 by Kate Challis

This goes on for several pages. I wonder what the story is behind this. I also wonder about the person keeping these records. Perhaps being a clergyman was not his original dream… Loading…

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