Guess what? GeneaBloggers was about to die. Thomas MacEntee was moving on to his new site: AbundantGenealogy.com. He basically realized that the vast majority of the traffic to his site comes from Facebook instead of blogs, and it wasn’t really worth all his gargantuan effort to continue with it. This post explains the pros and…
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Church Record Sunday: Velké Heraltice 1737, pálení čarodějnic, “I’m not a witch, I’m your wife!”
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…
Church Record Sunday: Holešov, 1650’s Pythagorean Theorem
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…
Church Record Sunday: Drahonice, 1883, “Ohhhhh…byslov…!”
Can you pinpoint this place on a map? I’ll admit, it took me a long time. Loading…
Church Record Sunday: Frenštát 1770, “If You’re Happy and You Know It…”
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Church Record Sunday: Časlav, 1835: “I must confess…”
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Church Record Sunday: Frenštát 1838, Vergiftung
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Church Record Sunday: Nižný Hrušov, 1870
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Motivation Monday: RootsTech thoughts, plans, dreams, fears, etc.
I will be going to RootsTech 2017 in a little over one week for the first time in my life. I have never done this before, though we used to live in Utah. But we had the excuse of being poor students. In 2009 I was working as a teacher at BYU StarTalk Arabic, the second…
Workday Wednesday: Rychtář
Written by Kate Challis and Lukáš Svoboda who blogs here.Your Czech ancestors almost certainly had some kind of contact with the village rychtář. Who was he, and what exactly did he do? Czech: fojt or šoltysGerman: Richter, Vogt, Schultheiss Latin: judex, scultetus, advocatusThere is no simple equivalent translation into English, therefore it is often translated as…