Last month I posted the death certificate of Anton Smihal, which said, “Can Not Remember” when listing the name of his mother. I was very happy to be able to connect the living descendant of this family to their Czechs in the old country a few days later, and of course I started writing a…
Category: US Immigration Records
They Came In Groups
If you are interested in Texas Czech genealogy, you should “czech” out Robert Janak’s “Janaks Texas-Czech Articles and Photos” website. It is excellent, in particular the articles section. Here was a useful post that he wrote called: “Dubina, Hostyn and Ammannsville. The Geographic Origin of Three Czech Communities in Fayette County, Texas.” Janak used tombstone…
Czech Immigration Routes to Texas: Bremen to Galveston 1880-1886
If you are interested in immigration routes that Germans and Czechs took to Texas, you should read the article, “German and Czech Immigration to Texas: The Bremen to Galveston Route, 1880-1886” by Lawrence H. Konecny and Clinton Machann. The most useful part of this article is a table that lists all the vessels with immigrants…
United States Passport Applications available on Familysearch.org!
I looked at some of the recently added records to Familysearch.org’s historical records database, and I found a new set of records added just on 30 December 2013: United States, Passport Applications, 1795-1925. Specifically, this collection contains, “United States Passport Applications from two different NARA collections: M1490, and M1372.” Since there are only 2,320,105 images,…