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Month: March 2018

Weekly Project Updates: 31 March 2018

Posted on 31 March 201831 March 2018 by kate.challis

Alright! This week was very productive, now that I am *actually* reviewing what I’ve been doing rather than basking in the very real, very fresh frustration of my first genetic genealogy puzzle. I will definitely be writing about this sometime soon, by the way. It is extremely interesting and I think it will help others…

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How can DNA analysis be useful to Czech Genealogy in 2018?

Posted on 26 March 201831 March 2018 by kate.challis

I am having difficulty understanding how genetic genealogy can be useful for me *now*. I have a bunch of immediate (and distant) family that has tested on Ancestry. I’m in something like 77 DNA circles there, and so is my husband (different circles). I uploaded all of our (me, my husband, siblings, grandparents etc.) raw…

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Weekly Project Updates: 24 March 2018

Posted on 24 March 201831 March 2018 by kate.challis

This week I was sucked in to a really fascinating story involving a divorce case for a Texas Czech couple. I spent a good portion of the first part of the week researching it, and the second part of the week talking with people about, “What now?” There are lots of ethics issues involved in,…

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Who is Josef Krčmarský?

Posted on 13 March 2018 by kate.challis

My fourth great grandmother was Anna Krčmarská who married Josef Šumbera on 5 October 1842. According to this record, Anna was the daughter of Joseph Krčmarský Bauer of Nová Bělá 36 and Marianna daughter of Johann Tomanek of Velké Kunčice (Groß Kunzendorf, Kunčice nad Ostravicí). She was 26 when she was married in 1842, giving…

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Weekly Update: 10 March 2018

Posted on 10 March 2018 by kate.challis

I decided for my own sake I wanted to keep a weekly record of all the stuff I am doing related to Czech Genealogy. This is really just my way of assuring myself that yes, I am accomplishing something, even though mostly it feels like I am not. These updates will be posted on Saturdays….

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Saturnin by Zdeněk Jirotka

Posted on 10 March 201810 March 2018 by kate.challis

This was one of the most enjoyable books I have ever read in my life. Literally. It’s the story about a shy, unexciting man in his thirties (he is unnamed in the book but in the miniseries his name is Jiří Oulický) who hires a “Gentleman’s Gentleman” named Saturnin, whose personality is a hilarious combination…

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Weekly Project Updates: 21 April 2018

Posted on 9 March 201821 April 2018 by kate.challis

Well, I skipped last week’s update because I really didn’t do that much except… I SOLVED MY FIRST EVER GENETIC GENEALOGY CASE!!! YAY!!! It was very exciting, and I hope to write lots about it. I was able to find the birth father of my second cousin once removed. It was an extremely satisfying experience….

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Weekly Update: 17 March 2018

Posted on 9 March 201817 March 2018 by kate.challis

It was spring break this week and I did a lot of childcare and comparatively little genealogy research. I did write up the Krčmarský stuff I found, which was extremely helpful for several reasons: Now I know which questions to ask next. Writing helped me to organize my research. I was able to share it…

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Czech Handwritten Text Recognition: A Real Possibility

Posted on 6 March 2018 by kate.challis

The main thing that I got out of RootsTech 2018 is the permission to think about Czech Handwritten Text Recognition as a real possibility. I have always been a little bit prone to being overly ambitious and having ridiculously huge dreams. A lot of people have derisively laughed at my vision in the past, and…

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