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…
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See you in January 2014!!
I am officially going to take a blogging hiatus until January 1st. My whole immediate family is coming here for Christmas and there is a lot left to do to prepare. Right now I need to focus on my living family more than my dead family. But don’t worry, I have a goal to blog…
How should I respond when I find out someone’s ancestors were on Schindler’s list?
I had an interesting genealogy experience yesterday. I did some transcription work for a Jewish man whose recent ancestors were on Schindler’s List. I’ve been thinking about this question ever since – what is the correct response to learning this? Obviously, you can’t say, “That’s awesome.” It isn’t. The fact that Oskar Schindler saved ~1,200 Jewish…
Surname Saturday: “Kreczmarska”
This post is about the surname “Kreczmarska”, otherwise known as Krečmar. My fourth great grandmother was Anna “Kreczmarska”. This is the spelling variation that was in the records my dad gave to me when I first started doing genealogy. This spelling is probably based off information found in the book, “A History of the Sumbera,…
Surname Saturday: Folta
As part of geneablogger’s Surname Saturday prompt, I have decided to start a series in which I post a little bit about each of my Czech ancestral surnames. I decided to start with my 4th great grandmother, Kathařina Folta. Folta is a fairly common surname in the Czech Republic today, as you can tell from the…
Kolaches
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…
Thankful Thursday: 2013 List
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in America! Here is a list of some of the genealogy-related things I’m especially thankful for this year. OCR technology that allows me to search newspapers instantly BYU’s online German script tutorial that has helped me remember that German script does have patterns that are generally predictable Online forums that allow me to…
Wordless Wednesday: Johanna Vasicek Naiser
Photo from Elaine Naiser Hicks Back row, standing from left to right: Richard J.(a great uncle), Johann Naiser (my great-grandfather), Edward (my grandfather) and John, J. a great uncle Front row, seated from left to right: Elizabeth Naiser Vacek (born in Texas) and Johanna Vasicek Naiser. Probably taken about 1890 or so in Texas. Elizabeth…
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…
Zinger by Orson Hyde
This is not related to Czech genealogy in any way whatsoever, but it’s interesting! I am doing some interesting research on my Mormon ancestors who lived in Iowa. One of them operated the south of the Platte river ferry route for at least 6 months in approximately 1849-1850. I have been looking for clues about…