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Welcome in 2016
Our youngest (fourth) daughter was born few days ago, on the feast of Three Wise Men. Her name is Salome and we are back home from hospital now. Anyway, getting back to shape will take a bit longer, so...
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Death notes
You probably know them. Short notes in "cause of death" column in death registries. There is often written something like "Úmrtní list z Radlic č. 21 dne 15. září 1873", "úmrtní ohledací lístek č. 15...
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Easter recipes
I mentioned in 2014 that I'll do food post from time to time. Well, the time has come and here is the first (and I hope not the only) food blog post, focused on Easter. I have three recipes for you...
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The oldest log house in Bohemia? In Rtyně!
We found an interesting article on website of Czech Radio and I decided to translate it for you as I think readers of this blog would be interested in such topic. People in Rtyně didn't know the oldest...
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History of villages: Lelekovice, Moravia
Haven't done a history of villages post for a while - and as there are quite many villages still waiting on the list, I decided I should write such blog post. Anyway - if you are interested in history...
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Have you heard? There's going to be the Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International Conference in Pittsburgh in October 2017. And you know what? I'll be one of the speakers! I will have two...
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Welcoming new year
I have already written a blog post about Christmas traditions, but what about those welcoming new year? What customs were connected to new year in Czech past? There were many of them and I have...
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Prague map from 1938
Many people lived in Prague before they decided to leave Bohemia - maybe your ancestors were one of them. Of course Prague today is a bit different from the Prague before WWII and it's useful to know...
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List of districts and archives to which they belong
I have prepared a list of archives and the districts which belong in those archives. There are 77 districts in the Czech Republic incl. Prague, so it's not a long list. District names are both with...
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Which archives to search? vol. 2
This question appears repeatingly in Czech Genealogy group on Facebook. I have village xy and I don't know in which archives to search for the parish books. I have already written a post about how to...
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Czech casualities in WWI
About a million of men from the area of Bohemia and Moravia participated in WWI. Not all of them returned home, many were killed in the battlefields or died because of diseases that spread among the...
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Structure of Records
Kate Challis is preparing headlines of columns, so I decided to look at their contents and abstract the common patterns that may help you to with basic orientation.More examples explained in Czech are...
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CGSI Conference 2017, Pittsburgh, PA
The CGSI Conference ended yesterday evening and I finally have a chance to sit down and write at least few sentences... I originally planned to write two blog posts from the Conference, but with five...
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Stable Cadaster Maps key
Maps of stable (stabile) cadaster contain number of different marks and symbols. I have decided to translate the key to those maps to English so anyone interested is able to find out what the symbols...
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Stabile cadaster maps (updated in Nov 2017)
I promised to write a post about Stabile cadaster maps and mapping so here it is. It provides information about stabile cadaster - what it was, why it was done, when and so on - as well as information...
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Kroj - local costumes
I'm often asked how kroj (Czech/Moravian/Silesian costume) looked like in different regions of the Czech Republic. I got a link to very interesting booklet published in 1885 showing both male and...
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Immigrants from Červená parish, Písek district
When one lady asked me to translate few records from Červená parish in Písek district in Southern Bohemia, I haven't expected I'll find number of notes about people who left for the U.S. from this...
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Traditional costumes (kroj) in Cheb (Eger) area
I searched for Cheb (Eger) area traditional costumes (kroj) because of Amy's question in comments under the blog post showing some pictures of these costumes from different regions of Bohemia. I have...
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Immigrants from Nový Hrozenkov, 1875-1880
Nový Hrozenkov belongs among those towns which are located in a mountain valley in eastern part of Moravia. It was very poor region where most of people worked in agriculture. Nový Hrozenkov was quite...
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Czech Traditional Costumes - Kroje, vol. II
I was asked about typical kroj for Eastern Bohemia and while I needed to do some research, I found another load of pretty old pictures of kroje. It from book called Národní kroje slovanské (Slavic...
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