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Month: January 2014

England Research can help Czech Research

Posted on 31 January 2014 by Kate Challis

If my husband wants to do genealogy research, he basically needs to become an expert in Northamptonshire, England – its history, repositories, available records, etc. Mostly we are concentrating on the early 1800’s and earlier. As we have worked together to start figuring this out, it has struck me that understanding manorial laws and customs…

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Wordless Wednesday: Picture Postcard including J. J. Vasicek (seated bottom center)

Posted on 29 January 2014 by Kate Challis
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What does the Grave’s Location in a Catholic Cemetery Mean?

Posted on 28 January 2014 by Kate Challis

I knew that 19th-mid 20th century Catholic cemeteries (and perhaps some modern ones too?) had stringent rules about who was allowed to be buried there. My friend from West, Texas (a predominately Czech community) pointed out something to me that was really interesting. In her own words: As I have traversed through many cemeteries over…

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Beide von hier

Posted on 27 January 2014 by Kate Challis

Here is a phrase that I ran into recently in the parish registers. I kept wondering, “What the heck? I keep seeing h-i-e-r in the place where the village name is supposed to be. But on a different record, this guy was from the same town, Zábřeh. Did he suddenly move?” Uh, no. “hier” is…

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You should translate the notes!

Posted on 27 January 2014 by Kate Challis

Yesterday, Blanka Lednícka wrote an excellent blog post about marriage notes in Czech Parish registers. She proved to me that the notes that sometimes are included in marriage registers should not be overlooked. They may contain valuable information about marriage banns, birth certificates, or church dispensations. I admit, I am guilty of frequently overlooking this…

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Soapbox: Genealogy Guilt is Stupid

Posted on 26 January 2014 by Kate Challis

I’m a family history consultant in my ward. I come in contact with a lot of people who have “Genealogy Guilt.” It is annoying, and needs to stop. It is stupid. One of the goals of the Latter-day Saint (Mormon) church is to redeem the dead. This means you first need to find them. Mixing genealogy research…

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Interesting Data Mining from old Czech Records

Posted on 25 January 2014 by Kate Challis

I read a really interesting post over at Lukáš Svoboda’s blog the other day that really helped me to think about my Czech ancestors in a different way. Using various land records, he made a list of all of the residents of the town of Zlonice (okres Kladno) and their professions. What he found was…

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I found a military man!

Posted on 24 January 2014 by Kate Challis

I found a Czech ancestor in the military the other day! This is exciting because everybody else was a farmer! Here is the FamilySearch wiki page for doing Czech military research. This is where I will start in my search for him.

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Wordless Wednesday: Postcard in Czech to my great grandma Betty Vasicek (Elizabeth Agnes Michna) from the Czech Republic

Posted on 22 January 2014 by Kate Challis
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Czech Immigration Routes to Texas: Bremen to Galveston 1880-1886

Posted on 22 January 2014 by Kate Challis

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…

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