It’s the end of my first day at RootsTech 2017. I think I’m going to starve. My sisters in law don’t believe in eating; they only believe in grazing. And dinner was at one of those places where they serve you tasty food but not enough of it. I spent the morning with my sister…
Radioactive Carps….aka RootsTech 2017: DAY ZERO
Well, Sondra and I are on our way to RootsTech 2017. This is the world’s largest genealogy conference, and it is going to be really interesting and awesome! Part of me sincerely wonders what I can possibly learn from this conference. Putting it like that sounds really snotty; I assure you, I’m painfully aware of my…
Kysucké Nové Mesto, Slovakia records on FamilySearch
So far I have looked at two Slovakian records, both on FamilySearch. And both of them were cataloged incorrectly. That is a lousy track record! I’m looking for a birth in 1891 for somebody who lived in Čambalovci, so they probably were baptized in Rudina, Nesluša, Kysucké Nové Mesto, etc. The Kysucké Nové Mesto records say…
Church Record Sunday: Nižný Hrušov, 1870
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Can Not Remember
This is so sad to me, that in one generation the name of his parents could be completely forgotten. This is a rare example of a Texas Czech death record having a hint to the village of origin – “Chaslaf”? But it is really sad that the mother’s name is forgotten. They should not be…
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…
Church Record Sunday, Frenštát 1870
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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…
Church Record Sunday: Nová Bělá 1873
Back Issues of SPJST’s Věstník are online!
Hey! While looking for something completely different, I stumbled across something I absolutely must share with all of those who have some kind of connection to Texas Czechs. When Czechs immigrated to Texas, they brought with them deep and abiding love of literature, education, and culture. After all, Jan Amos Komenský was a Czech. It…