After a recent blog post about upcoming changes to portafontium.cz, I got an email asking for clarification about what that means. I realized that it would be helpful to others to provide some tutorials about how to navigate the Czech archival sites, especially from a native English speaking perspective. After all, one of the main…
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Predictions for Czech Genealogy Research in 2014
I’m back! Woohoo! What a great start to the year! I’m so excited to continue researching, writing, and learning about genealogy. Here are my predictions for what will happen in the world of Czech genealogy research in 2014: The current Czech indexing project on familysearch.org will be completed Czech census records will begin to be…
Czech Out Your Ancestors Facebook Page goes live
Thanks to the urging of a friend and fellow genealogist Rebecca Christensen over at Kansas Ancestors, I finally drummed up enough motivation to finish a facebook page for my business. Woohoo! Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/czechoutyourancestors I think it will mainly be a place for me to share blog updates, interesting status updates about my…
The purpose of this blog
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…