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Josef Lada: Easter
Josef Lada is tightly connected to the Czech Easter traditions as he painted some of the most favorite Easter postcards we have here in the Czech Republic. Here are some of this paintings - they often...
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Farmer's life in 18th and 19th century
I was asked several times what everyday life in the 18th century was like. So, here is a very brief post about the farmer's life in 18th and 19th century. It was in fact very similar to current life in...
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Guide to the Zámrsk archive website
The regional archive in Zámrsk has probably the most confusing system to access digitized materials of all Czech archives.Area: In this archive are stored materials for North-East Bohemia and...
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Specifics of records prior to 1784
Michaela wrote a huge post about the structure of the parish records, but there are some specifics worth mentioning in case of records prior to year 1784. Why this year? Because it was the year when...
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Serfs register according to their faith from 1651
One of the oldest sources which covers most of Bohemia is the Serfs register according to their faith (soupis poddaných podle víry) which was created in 1651. It covers just Bohemia, not Moravia or...
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100 years old lady
Stoletá dáma (100 years old lady) is a name our republic was given this year. We celebrate 100 years from the creation of Czechoslovakia - and I use word "creation" because the Czechoslovak republic...
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Knackers and knackeries
There is a number of trades that don't exist anymore in our modern world of Europe or Northern America. One of those trades is being a knacker - in Czech pohodný, ras, drnomistr or antoušek, in German...
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Czechia or Czech Republic?
I had two encounters with this word lately and I think this topic also belongs here... :)Short name Czechia [ˈtʃɛkiə] is the official shortened name of the Czech Republic since May 2016. Since then,...
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Yay! Another CGSI's Conference is coming! It will be held between 17th and 19th October 2019 and I'll be there as one of the speakers. I have already bought a plane ticket and I'll fly in on Monday Oct...
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Czech Old Maps Online
I promised to publish here a list of links I had in my presentation in Lincoln, Nebraska, about old Czech maps. And as "sharing is caring" (motto of the Czech Pirate Party I'm member of), here is not...
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CGSI Conference 2019
I just returned back home to the Czech Republic from the Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International Conference 2019, which took place in Lincoln, Nebraska. It was a wonderful place for anyone...
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Wilber, NE - the Czech Capital of the USA
Thanks to the fact I was in Lincoln, NE, I also had a chance to visit Wilber, NE, with my friends. Wilber is the official "Czech Capital of the USA" - place where up to 90 percent of all inhabitants...
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The Wilber Czech Museum
As visiting Wilber, NE, we had a chance to visit the Wilber Czech Museum - Karen who took us to Wilber, was able to setup a meeting with one of the administrators of the Museum so they opened it for...
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Wilber Czech Cemetery
The last place we visited in Wilber, Nebraska, was the Czech Cemetery. It's located about 1.5 mile to the west from the town centre. One of the surprises for me was the fact that you drive into the...
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Immigrants from Nový Hrozenkov, 1881-1885
I already published a post about people from Nový Hrozenkov born between 1875 and 1880 who have a note by their birth record about immigration to the U.S. As the Nový Hrozenkov birth book contains...
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Recipe: Fruit dumplings
Last week I had a tour with Jolene whose ancestors were from Písařov, Šumperk district. She mentioned one of her favorite meals were fruit dumplings and I promised her to publish a recipe for these...
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Estates I - What's an estate?
I have mentioned the estates number of times in the past. But I think I never explained what they are. I know it's not easy to understand estate system in the Czech past, so I decided to write several...
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People in the parish books: Priests
There is quite a lot of data that can be found in parish books and are often ignored and/or might confuse the researcher - most common is a situation when the word after mother's first name is thought...
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30 years of freedom
The Czech republic celebrates 30 years of freedom today. It's 30 years from the beginning of the Velvet revolution. 30 years from the events of the Nov 17, 1989. Police agains students. Národní třída...
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Estates II - How it all happened?
I explained what's an estate, in the previous blog post. But we have to start much deeper in the history to understand this system.Hluboká castle and town on a map from the first half of 18th...
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