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Month: January 2021

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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