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…
Month: January 2021
Sloup se sochou P. Marie v Frenštátě pod Radhoštěm
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…
Ye Olde Blog Goals 2021
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…