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I'll be happy to help you with that!  I'm transcribing and translating parish records (and not only those, but also cadastral or estate records, chronicles, census records and much more) all languages that were used in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia in the past - from Czech, German, Latin or Polish. You will receive not only a transcript and translation of the recording, but also explanations of unusual words and other explanations. The flat rate is $8 per parish record. The rate for other resources depends on the resource - and I'll provide you an estimation before the translation is done ..read more
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Patreon site
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1y ago
I've mentioned the Patreon site before - and since October I'm writing new blog posts mainly there, publishing them here with a delay. Usually because I just forget to transfer the posts here. Of course, some posts are patrons-only, but there is still a number of public posts there, so I recommend to follow my page there:  https://www.patreon.com/czechgenealogy I'll be more than happy if you decide to become my patron there because it will unlock you more posts and possibilities ..read more
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Surnames derived from water
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1y ago
September voting about surname topic for October showed you are interested in surnames which were derived from water. So let's take a look on such surnames - and see how many of those we have. Water is voda in Czech and Wasser in German. I'll use both languages as both were used here in the Czech Republic in the past.  And also Voda is one of the basic "water" surnames. There are some 750 people having both male and female form of this surname - Voda or Vodová. Diminutive from Voda is Vodička or Vodenka. Vodička (small water) is very common name, about 4500 people have Vodička or Vodičko ..read more
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Male first names in Latin
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1y ago
There are thousands of first names today. But our ancestors used just a few tens of them. They wanted to fit in, not to stand out, because anyone who stood out was usually suspicious. Records in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia are usually writen in Latin between abt 1730 and 1784. And Latin uses declension and has six cases: nominative genitive dative accusative vocative ablative You can see usually three of them in the records - nominative, genitive and accusative. Nominative is the name itself, genitive is usually used for "son/daughter of someone", accusative for "son/daughter after someo ..read more
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Funny surnames
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1y ago
There is a very old blog post about how surnames were created. This blog post describes that sometimes the person received a surname which was funny because of his appearance or behaviour.  And there are surnames which were considered funny those days - and they still exist until today and still are funny. Here are some examples of such surnames - and I hope you'll have fun reading the explanation. Nechoďdomů - don't go home Well. Is there any explanation needed? Maybe it was given to someone who used this phrase regularly. Or someone who didn't want to go home from? Vosolsobě - salt it ..read more
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Moravian land registers of 1656-1676, part II
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1y ago
I mentioned in the previous post how to navigate in these oldest land registers. This time I'll describe the system of the measurements used in these documents. So - it will be a bit complicated. I have to explain the measurements which were used in the past, as well as three different classes of the soil which were used to calculate the tax burden. The register contains columns with information about the owners - but we will get to that in the third part of this mini-series. The important part of today are the columns on the right side of the picture above.  There are five columns. The ..read more
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1968 in Prague
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1y ago
It's been 54 years since the Warsaw Pact invasion to Czechoslovakia. I was born in 1980 so I didn't live throught these events - but my parents and parents-in-law did. I asked them about those events and here is a story of my mother-in-law. She was born in 1943 and was 25 in August 1968. My parents-in-law were already married and were living in Roztoky, 20 minutes by train to the Prague center. She was expecting her second child and was working in the telecommunication services in Prague.  We were both working in Prague, I had a night shift from 20th to 21st August 1968 in Československ ..read more
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School chronicles
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1y ago
Mandatory school education was a part of our ancestors' everyday life since 1869. The children were obliged to start the school when they were six and they were expected to complete 8 years of the basic education. And as schools were meant to be "the churches of education" many of them started writing chronicles in the 2nd half of 19th century. Since the first half of 20th century almost all schools had chronicles. What was written in those chronicles?  Usually memorable moments not only of the school life, but of the life of whole town or village. There were statistics of the school att ..read more
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How important is religion for Europeans?
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1y ago
Religion and the church are very important for people in the U.S. To cite Wikipedia article about the U.S. and religion:  In one 2020 survey, about 65% of Americans report that religion plays an important or very important role in their lives, 43% report attending religious services at least monthly, 61% report praying weekly or more and 90% believe in God proportions which are unique among developed countries. As I have already mentioned in the blog post Czechs and religion which I wrote some 7 years ago, religion is not anymore important part of our everyday lives. And today I found th ..read more
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Moravian land registers of 1656-1676, part I
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1y ago
One of the sources I haven't mentioned before are Moravian land registers created between 1656 and 1676 (they are called lánový rejstřík or lánové rejstříky in Czech). It's the oldest Moravian register of dependent farms, houses and plots, from which the taxes were paid. It is similar to berní rula, which is the oldest Czech register of such farms and houses. It was created in two versions, first one done in 1656-1657, second one between 1669-1679. The second one was needed because the first one had many mistakes and the tax system needed and accurate version. This land register contains quit ..read more
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