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Month: July 2016

It’s not just me whining about access

Posted on 26 July 2016 by Kate Challis

I recently returned home from my first trip to the Czech Republic with my husband. It was a perfect trip. I would not change anything. Me with my 5th cousin Roman in front of our ancestor’s church in Vratimov If I could sum up the most important thing that I learned from this trip it…

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Dominikál vs. Rustikál

Posted on 19 July 2016 by Kate Challis

When you are reading Czech land records, you will inevitably encounter the terms dominikál and rustikál. What do these words mean? Why are they important for genealogists to understand? Dominikál comes from the same root as the word dominion. It refers to manorial/estate land owned by the nobility and tilled under their direction by the…

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Franz Waschiczek Nro. 3 Vratimov: Hlavní Kniha (Ledger) record, first page

Posted on 18 July 2016 by Kate Challis

http://vademecum.archives.cz/vademecum/permalink?xid=78ea28f5d14a405d9330eca92a42ac57&scan=13 Here is a page I transcribed from the Hlavní Kniha pro obec Vratimov, taken from the Velkostatek Velké Kunčice č 27. Hlavní Kniha means Ledger. This is a page from the ledger for the town of Vratimov, which is in the Estate of Velké Kunčice. The inventory number for the Opava Archives is 27….

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What did my emigrant ancestors think when they saw Prague for the first (and probably only) time?

Posted on 14 July 2016 by Kate Challis

As I leave Moravia for the first time, of course I have had many thoughts about what it must have felt like for my ancestors as they left. Many, if not most, of them never had the opportunity to return home and ever again see this place, and more importantly, their family and friends who…

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My first last day in Frenštát p. Radhoštěm

Posted on 13 July 2016 by Kate Challis

I woke up this morning in Frenštát, one of the ancestral home towns of my Czech ancestors. It is the last day of our stay in this part of the Czech Republic, as today we will travel by train to Prague. Of course I feel overwhelmed with thoughts and feelings, but I will only write…

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