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Jan Pokluda’s Village of Origin

Posted on 30 July 202130 July 2021 by kate.challis

This is my third great aunt, Františka Vašíčková. Františka Vašíčková was born 9 March 1859 at Vratimov. She married František Karel Naiser on 27 August 1878. Together they had the following children: i Anastasia Naiser ii Richard Raymond Naiser iii Charles John Naiser iv Frances Naiser v Elizabeth Naiser vi Hermina Naiser František Karel Naiser…

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Mariana Genzer Čísak Ferik

Posted on 10 January 202110 January 2021 by kate.challis

Last weekend I started trying to find the Czech village of origin for Mariana Žídek. It turned out to be Brušperk. You can read about that research here. Along the way, I noticed that Mariana’s daughter, Mariana Genzer, had some weird discrepancies on her Find-A-Grave page. For example, the first confusing thing was that she…

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Sloup se sochou P. Marie v Frenštátě pod Radhoštěm

Posted on 3 January 20213 January 2021 by kate.challis

I have these vague memories of standing on Frenštát town square, looking at this giant obelisk, and being told by someone (my fifth cousin Roman, perhaps?) that it was a memorial to the people who died during the plague in 1680. But I’m trying to substantiate that memory with real evidence, and kind of struggling…

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Ye Olde Blog Goals 2021

Posted on 1 January 20211 January 2021 by kate.challis

Oh no. It’s been such a while since I dusted off my blog here. There’s like 12 wordpress updates, 8 plugins updates, and 6 unmoderated comments. Some of them look like they are probably even real! I almost got side-tracked into dealing with those things, but then… breathed in, breathed out, and forced myself to…

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Partial Index to 1869 Census Notes of Emigrants from Frenštát

Posted on 7 June 20207 June 2020 by kate.challis

I noticed that the 1869 census for Frenštát often has notes about emigration. I started indexing it. I’m 25% through. Here’s what I’ve got so far, houses 1-190. And here is a link to the google doc. I hope to finish this project sometime. 1869 census village house number surname give name birth year pas…

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Henry Heine, Part One

Posted on 5 June 20205 June 2020 by kate.challis

Sometimes it’s like there’s this little insect that bites me, or I take one tiny drink from some tempting elixir. Either way, something like that happened and I’ve been obsessing about Anna Svoboda for the past few days. Most of this email is built on the bones of an email to the very nice people…

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When Czechs married Germans

Posted on 10 May 202010 May 2020 by kate.challis

The 19th century pattern was for Czechs who emigrated to the United States from the old country to do so in patterns of chain migration. They came together, lived together, worked together, migrated together, married together, and stayed together even through terrible marriages. They had many children together, they died together, and they are buried…

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Village of Origin for Josef Kubeš: Part One

Posted on 22 April 202022 April 2020 by kate.challis

I certainly hope there will be a “Part Two” because a village of origin post in which I don’t solve the guy’s village of origin is a little bit, well, lame. But the journey is really fun, and that’s what I want to write about today. Right now I am looking at the villages of…

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Czech Village of Origin in… the US Census?!

Posted on 19 April 202019 April 2020 by kate.challis

I recently thrust myself back into my own genealogy research. It’s good for me. When I feel connected with my loved ones of the past, I feel much happier. It’s not like I hadn’t been doing genealogy research before, but… well… for me, Czech genealogy is just one single very deep rabbit hole, like scope…

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CGSI Conference 2019 in Lincoln Nebraska

Posted on 25 October 201925 October 2019 by kate.challis

The 17th biennial CGSI Conference was held in Lincoln, Nebraska last weekend. It was my first time presenting at a major genealogy conference, and I loved it. I presented on four topics: The Civil Code of Austria and Why it Matters for Czech Researchers, How to Use Czech Land Records for Genealogical Research, Czech Wikipedia,…

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