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Month: December 2013

See you in January 2014!!

Posted on 20 December 2013 by Kate Challis

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…

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How should I respond when I find out someone’s ancestors were on Schindler’s list?

Posted on 19 December 2013 by Kate Challis

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…

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Frančiscuš [Černy] birth record

Posted on 15 December 2013 by Kate Challis

The Roman Catholic Parish of Zbečno (Zbečno, Raknovík, Czech Republic), Zbečno Deaths 1844-1869, digital image 49, page 46, first entry, Frančiscuš [Černy] entry, 18 December 1856; “Zbečno 08”, State Regional Archives of Prague (SOA Praha), Praha, Czech Republic; SOA Praha, Acta Publica (http://actapublica.eu/matriky/praha/prohlizec/8853/?strana=49 : accessed 13 December 2013). Rok, měsíc a den narozeni a křtu…

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Surname Saturday: “Kreczmarska”

Posted on 14 December 2013 by Kate Challis

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,…

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Excerpt from “Bohemia and the Čechs” that discusses land ownership

Posted on 13 December 2013 by Kate Challis

Here is a really interesting excerpt from the book Bohemia and the Čechs, the History, People, Institutions, and the Geography of the Kingdom, Together with Accounts of Moravia and Silesia, by Will Seymour Monroe. This book was published in 1910. I have found it a fascinating read, especially from my vantage point in history. There…

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My Human Context for Austerlitz

Posted on 11 December 2013 by Kate Challis

I disliked “History” as a subject yet love Family History. I was reminded of why this is yesterday while doing some research on Austerlitz. In most of my High School/College History classes, there was a huge focus on political movements, aka wars. And I could never keep them all straight in my mind, because there were…

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Mappy Monday: Finding House Numbers on Mapy.cz

Posted on 9 December 2013 by Kate Challis

I found an interesting article about House Numbering on wikipedia, with a whole section for Czech House Numbers. There are currently at least three kinds of house numbering in the Czech Republic: Popisné číslo – This is the “old” or “descriptive number.” Maria Theresa ordered the first descriptive numbering in 1770-1771. According to the article, “The…

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Church Record Sunday: Valentin Folta’s birth record

Posted on 8 December 2013 by Kate Challis

In keeping with yesterday’s surname theme, I decided to do a transcription of Katařina Folta’s father, Valentinus. You can find his birth record here. Born/baptized on 8 February [1799][Clergy who baptized him:] Christianus Wayn, coop [this is an abbreviation for some sort of clergyman]house # 8 Vítkovicename: ValentinusMale, Catholic, LegitimateFather: Wenzel Folta, bauer [farmer]Mother: Theresia…

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Surname Saturday: Folta

Posted on 8 December 2013 by Kate Challis

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…

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Follow Friday: Carl Linert’s Czech Land Record Research Tips

Posted on 6 December 2013 by Kate Challis

Hey everybody! Today I would like to spotlight a fellow Czech Genealogist named Carl Linert. He doesn’t do social media, but is very involved in online Czech genealogy forums. He both answers and asks very pertinent questions, most notably about Czech Land Records (for example, this thread). I have come across his name dozens of time in…

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