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Researching: KNOTH
Researching the surname Knoth from Bratelsbrunn (German form), Pratlsbrunn (Czech form) Moravia, between Znojmo and Mikulov. The current name of the town is now Brezi. My 4th and 5th great grandfathers (Karl and Lorenz Knoth respectively) were born there. Karl was born cira. 1770 and Lorenz cira. 1730. Karl was an Austrian soldier and after the war with the French settled in Otterberg, Germany (cira. 1795). One of his sons, Nicholas Knoth, emigrated to the US with his wife and three sons (Charles, Frank, and Henry) in 1852 and settled in Ashland, Ohio. I would like any information on the Knoth family from Brezi, Moravia.
email: - rknoth@ag.org - Posted 30 September 1998

Researching: MARCEK
I am looking for information on the family of Marcek.
email: - marwm@mail.execpc.com - Posted 30 September 1998

Researching: HLAVATY, SVEC, KUNES
I'm looking for the family of Anna and John Hlavaty. They came from Pesek, Bohemia sometime between 1876 and 1890. Anna first came with an older sibling and their mother. Eventually the whole family ( 13 in all ) were able to come over. John Hlavaty married Barbara Svec and had 5 children. Anna married Anton Kunes and had two children. Anton and Anna are our great grandparents. I don't know the names of the other siblings or what happened to them. And I would also like to know more about their family and life in Bohemia before they came here.
email: Patty Herczeg - Tomehxxx@aol.com - Posted 30 September 1998

Researching: LOPUCH, LOPECK
Researching Czech surname Lopuch (Americanized to Lopeck).
email: Joan Marotta - jjmarotta@erols.com - Posted 30 September 1998

Researching: KINOVICH
The surname in question is Kinovich. The name may have been anglicized upon arrival of the family in America. They lived in the coal region of PA.
email: Jim - jtsimmon@vm.hacc.edu - Posted 30 September 1998

Researching: VAVRUSA
Researching Josef Vavrusa ( born April 1863) and his brother Franz Vavrusa from Zelechovive nad Divinci.
email: Ed Hansen - edhansen@intermediatn.net - Posted 30 September 1998

Researching: HRUSKA, HOUFEK
Am searching Hruska family lines. Vaclav Hruska, born 1809 in Jenikov, Bohemia, came to USA around 1870, eventually ending up in Nebraska. He married Marie Houfek. Any help would be appreciated.
email: Connie - chruska@open.org - Posted 30 September 1998

Researching: STRANGFELD, SCHUSTER
My g-grandparents Anton and Cecelia (Strangfeld) Schuster came to US in 1906 & 1907 with their children Maria, Vincenz, Karl, Julia and Franz. They settled in Milwaukee, WI, where Anton's brother, Vincenz, already lived. They were from the towns of Zwittau (now Svitavy), Ober Heinzendorf (now Horni Hyncina), Bomisch Wiesen (now Ceska Dlouha) and possibly Brusau (now Bresova Nad Svitavou). Any information in connection with this family or these towns would be appreciated.
email: - MBoykin312@aol.com - Posted 30 September 1998

Researching: KLEKAR, SOUKUP
We are searching for information on family members from Bohemia. Mencreni Klekar, born in 1830, immigrated to the U.S. in 1860, was from Rothwaksen in Lanskroune, Chruden, Bohemia. His daughter, Emilie, born 10/13/1871, married Anton W. Soukup, born 5/27/1865. We think the Soukup family also came from Bohemia, probably at about the same time as Mr. Klekar. The family settled in southern Minnesota. We would be grateful for any information.
email: Don Soukup - dsoukup@minntech.com - Posted 30 September 1998

Researching: PAUK, KORISTA
Researching surnames Pauk and Korista. Any information will be appreciated.
email: George L. Pauk - lyon@goodnet - Posted 30 September 1998

Researching: MRAZ, MOTL
I am researching the names of Willie Henry Mraz (b. 1907-d. 1975) and his wife Anna Teresa Motl (b. 1907 - d. 1981). They were originally from Shiner, Texas and moved to Houston, Texas, in the mid 1920's.
email: - Lost28FW@aol.com - Posted 30 September 1998

Researching: ONDRA
I am researching Anna Ondra. Ondra is probably her married name. She was probably born in the mid 1880's. She was from Bohemia and she was my Great Grandmother. She came to the US in 1892 with a young son and either pregnant or with a small girl. She lived in Texas. I know its not much but its all I have. Her husband died before boarding the ship. My Grandmother never knew her mother because Anna died when she was 3 yrs. old. Any help would be appreciated.
email: C. Smith - CSMITH2069@aol.com - Posted 30 September 1998

Researching: KOTLABA, MRACEK
Martin Kotlaba married M. Mracek. Looking for information. Thank you.
email: - WayneD7522@AOL.com - Posted 30 September 1998

Researching: BIHARY
My grandfather Bihary came to America 71 years ago as a baby.
email: - VetterBaby@aol.com - Posted 30 September 1998

Researching: ROSENZWEIG
Do you have any information about the name Rosenzweig. Family came to Pittsburgh and were Catholic. I heard about Lapsed Jews in Slovakia. Do you have any information on the name?
email: Anna Riggio - anniegoe@sgi.net - Posted 30 September 1998

Researching: SICHERITZ
My worldwide research for my anchestors Sicheritz remained unsuccessfull up to know. I found out that there was a village Sicheritz (Cichorice) near Luditz (Zlutice). Does anybody know why this village was called "Sicheritz".
email: Helmut Sicheritz - sicheritz@atecaudio.com - Posted 30 September 1998

Researching: HORVATH, PROKOP, OSTISKA, SLOBODA
Please contact me. I'm looking for ancestors of Mary (Horvath) and Frederick Prokop and Pauline (Ostriska) and Stephen Sloboda. The cities they were from are Bratislava and Losenec. Also, Ferdinand Prokop of Brno.
email: Lorraine Barker - LBarker@KelleyDrye.com - Posted 30 September 1998

Researching: WHITEROCK, WITTROC
I am looking for the relatives of my maternal great-grandfather. He was a "prussian" who married my great-grandmother, Marguerite Terese Sofia (given names may be in any order)Whiterock (or Wittroc?) in Hamburg, Germany around the 1850's or thereabouts. Thank you.
email: Carleen Frazier-Adlam - Carleen@ionet.net - Posted 30 September 1998

Researching: LAUBMEIER
Interested in any information on the above village of Anger, now destroyed and the family Laubmeier. My ggrandfather was George Laubmeier, who came to America in the 1870's. I believe his home was in Anger.
email: Phyllis Dearborn - pdear@bankpds.com - Posted 30 September 1998

Researching: BAROCH, UHLIK
Researching the names Baroch and Uhlik. Family was from Bohemia. James Louis Baroch born 1872, Baltimore, Maryland. Wife Mary (Uhlik). Mary Uhlik born in Bohemia. Family lived in Baltimore, Maryland. Any information would be appreciated.
email: Jean Clayton - memol@swbell.net - Posted 30 September 1998

Researching: HALOUN
Haloun - Wanting to find out anything possible about the family. Grandfather and grandmother were steward and housekeeper in an estate/castle just outside Jihlava a hundred years ago. Four children Gustav, Olga, Lili, Hubert. Gustav (my father) academic specialising in Chinese language and culture; fled Nazi Germany and went to Cambridge, England were he became professor at King's College. Died when I was thirteen. What happened to Olga, Lili and Hubert? Any descendants?
email: Brigitta Nowland - Brigitta.N@bigpond.com - Posted 30 September 1998

Researching: DVORAK, CHUDIK
Jan Dvorak born June 8, 1869, Opatov, Bohemia. Married Marie Chudik, born January 21,1874,Bohemia. They were married about 1896 or earlier. Jan was a coal miner. Three childrern born in Bohemia. Mary-May 22,1897; Wenzel - July 25,1900, Burch Bohemia; Joe - about 1902. Jan immigrated to Michel B.C.Canada about 1901 or 1902. Marie and children followed in 1903.Six more children were born in Canada. Would appreciate any information re ancestors of Jan or Marie.
email: Bob and Millie - rlbrown@kootenay.net - Posted 30 September 1998

Researching: EVETTS
Researching Evetts.
email: Donald - duckmann@gte.net - Posted 30 September 1998

Researching: GAMEC
Looking for others of the Gamec surname.
email: Jan Gamec - gamec@tuke.sk - Posted 30 September 1998

Researching: RAMBOUSEK, KREKEROVA
I am looking for a Czech village in the Ukraine that was named Czechohrad and changed in 1946 to Novgorodkivka. My great, great grandfather Vaclav Rambousek lived and died in an accident there. He was married to Anna Krekerova and she came to the U.S. from Czechohrad in 1888 with daughter Mary and a son and his wife, Joseph and Mary (Srsen) Rambousek. Anna Krekerova was born at Chrudim in Bohemia around 1841. They settled in the Dickinson, North Dakota, USA area and I have been able to piece together most of the family living in the U.S. I have a map of the village of Czechohrad. I have no idea what it might look like today as Novgorodkivka. If anyone knows of the village or how I can contact someone from there or has knowledge of this family, please contact me.
email: Kathleen Schrock - angelacres@proaxis.com - Posted 30 September 1998

Researching: KOZINA
I'm interested on any information that can be provided on the family name Kozina.
email: Elizabeth Kozina - lizkozina@bigpond.com.au - Posted 30 September 1998

Researching: BENESCH, MORAFZIN
Searching for family history: Oldest known relative Josef Benesch Born December 25, 1789 in Schloss Kinsby, Prag, Czechoslovakia. Married to Anna Morafzin. Josef immigrated to Raggendorf, Austria August 21, 1827. Died in Raggendorf September 7, 1858.
email: Chris - Benesch@telusplanet.net - Posted 30 September 1998

Researching: UJKA, WICKEY
I am researching Frank John Ujka, born approximately November 1846 in Bohemia. He kept the surname upon coming to America, but gave his children the surname Wickey. Visit our web site for beer and politics http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/4200/
email: Joe - joe-boyd@joe-boyd.net - Posted 30 September 1998

Researching: KOCOUREK, SONKA, SHONKA, MIKES, NESTAVALOVA, NESTAVAL, KADLEC, CHMELA, CIHAK, PRIBYL, WELEK, CIZEK
Researching the above families. My great-grandmother Anna Mary Sonka (Shonka) married Antonin Kocourek and immigrated to Hopkins/ Kilkenny Minnesota in 1880/1881. Their children were Anna Angela, Charles Edward, Joseph Francis, Anthony George, John (Jack) and Dorothy. All but Anthony immigrated to Canada in the early 1900s. Antonin Kocourek was born on 19 Nov 1857 in #73 Radetice, Region Tabor, Country Bertyne, Empire of Austria, Czech. His parents were Josef Kocourek Jr. (born in Radetice) and Anna Pribyl. Josef Kocourek Jr. was the son of Josef Kocourek Sr. from Radetice and Maria Cizek (Ludomerice). Known siblings of Anna Mary Sonka (Shonka) were Karel (Charles), Frank, Joseph (half-brother), and Jan (Jan married Katerina Stastny ). Anna Mary was born 23 Oct 1857 in #2 Breznice Bohemia, Region Tabor County, Milvesko to Vaclav Sonka and Anna KADLEC. Vaclav Sonka was born 19 Aug 1818 in Breznice (son of Matej Sonka (Breznice) and Katerina Miksova (Mikes) (Klecaty). Matej Sonka was born abt. 1785 in Breznice #2 and died 20 Feb 1852. His father was Vaclav Sonka. Matej Sonka and Katerina Mikes married 25 Oct 1808 in Zalsi. Katerina Mikes was born abt. 1821 in Klecaty to Josef Mikes and Alzbeta Nestavalova. Anna Kadlec was born 17 Dec 1827 in No. 32 Nuzice. Father was Matej Kadlec from Nuzice (son of Vaclav Kadlec (Nuzice) and Rozalie Cihak (Hvozdany)). Mother was Barbora Chmelova (Chmela) (daughter of Antonin Chmela (Senozaty) and Anna Welek (Radetice).
email: Lois Knaggs - lois.knaggs@dreo.dnd.ca - Posted 29 September 1998

Researching: NOVOTNY
I'm interested in finding out anything I can about any possible relatives. I know virtually nothing about the Novotny side of my family. My grandfather was Frank Novotny of Philadelphia PA, USA.
email: Terri Latta - Boxercrew@webtv.net - Posted 29 September 1998

Researching: FIFAC, ULLAAM, SKALA
I am searching the name Vaclav Anton Fikac, he came to the US throught Galveston, Tx. before WWI. He was born May 31, 1884. He married the year of 1909, to Camilla Ullaam. Had five sons but three died at a ver young age. The two sons that lived up until their seventy's or so, was James Anton Fikac and Edward Anton Fikac. According to Vaclav's death certicate his father ws Vaclav Fikac and mother was Maria or Marie Skala. Hope someone can guide me in the right direction. By the way I have Vaclav's registration # with his thumb print on it. Where would I check this number out for information? The Justice Department? Their name is on it. Help Help, please. On Vaclav's death certicate it stated he was from Velky Bor or does that mean Vel Bor, Bohemia of the Czech Republic.
email: J. B. Spicer - CPZB4@aol.com - Posted 29 September 1998

Researching: SEDLACEK, TRAMPISH
I am searching for my father's family who were lost during WWII. They are Richard, Elisabeth and Edeltrand Sedlacek, the siblings of my father Engelbert Karl Sedlacek. The family lived in Olmitz, Czeck Republic and are the children of Engelbert and Sofia nee (Trampish) Sedlacek: Engelbert Karl Sedlacek born Mar 29, 1928; Father Engelbert Sedlacek born Aug. 26, 1903; Mother Sofia Trampish born Aug 23, 1910; Grandfather Adolph Sedlacek; Grandmother Marie Sedlacek; Grandfather Karl Trampish; All were from Olmitz. My father was separated from his family during the war and wasn't able to find them after the war. Sadly my father passed away two years ago without ever knowing if he still had a family back in the Czech Republic. The only documentation I have is my fathers birth certificate and a single photo of the three children previously mentioned. I have no idea on how to even begin looking for them. Any advise or help would be greatly appreciated.
email: Reinhard Sedlacek - dust_cover@email.msn.com - Posted 29 September 1998

Researching: VANECEK
Frank and Mary Vanecek coming to U.S. about 1885? from Bohemia Czech. and going to St. Louis, Missouri.
email: - EVanacek@aol.com - Posted 29 September 1998

Researching: LEBEDA
I am seeking any information regarding the Lebeda family. My Grandfather was born December 17th 1892 in Sedlise, Bohemia. His parents were Karel Lebeda & Anna Lebeda.
email: - zip12@pacbell.net - Posted 28 September 1998

Researching: TROCH, BIEGEL, STOUT
Any information would be appreciated on Troch, Biegel, and Stout.
email: Joe Troch - jtroch@clark.net - Posted 28 September 1998

Researching: BALGA, KRNA
Looking for information on Ladislav Balga or Elizabeth Krna. Believe town of interest is Bratislava, Brno, or Prague.
email: John Balga Sr. - GRANDPA@webtv.net - Posted 28 September 1998

Researching: SOULF, SOUFL, SAUFL
If anyone is researching Soulf or Saufl, please let me know.
email: - Soufl1@aol.com - Posted 28 September 1998

Researching: HUMPOLICK, HUMPOLECKE
My grandparents were from somewhere in Bohemia I was told. My parents said, when people came through customs to the United States, the customs people heard there name and wrote it down phonetically. They were sure our name was Humpolecke or something similar. I have no way of knowing where they emmigrated from in either Czechoslovakia or Austria. Would appreciate any help you can give me in this matter.
email: Richard L. Humpolick - hump2@raex.com - Posted 28 September 1998

Researching: BURDA, ELIEFF, LOKAJ, LOKAY, LOULA, MARES, MENCL, SEDLACEK, SIDLO, STEPANEK, SVACHA, VIDUNA
The above families were mostly to Illinois and Wisconsin and Ohio areas from 1865 through 1895 and then spreading across the country.
email: Ray Lokay - RALOKAY@aol.com - Posted 27 September 1998

Researching: SLAMA, FRHOVA
I am looking for information on a Peter Slama and Fracisca Frhova Flama from Prague or near by they came to the U.S.A. around 1876 with three children leopold, Charles, and Karolina all born in Vodnany, Bohemia. Peter was born in 1834 Francisca in 1839.
email: Maurine Slama Thacker - 6t@htcomp.net - Posted 27 September 1998

Researching: HOLECEK, HOLECHOVA
I am looking for information on the surnames above. On the Holecek side, John and Mary Holecek came to the U.S. in about 1889. They had at least two childeren, Josie and Anna (Anastasia) Holecek (Holechova). Anna was born on 4-19-1886 in the town of Dobromerice in the Territory of Pelhrimov. She was three when she was brought to the US. The family settled in Owatonna, Minnesota. There John and Mary had 3 more childeren, Louis, Frances, and Joesph. Thank you for any help.
email: Bill Holecek - bill@computerpro.com - Posted 27 September 1998

Researching: NAVARKL, NAVRKL, NAVRAKL, WHITTED
The surname I'm looking for is spelled one of three ways: Navarkl, Navrkl, Navrakl. Family settled in Nebraska in late 1800's with 3-yr-old Fannie (my great- grandmother). Fannie homesteaded in New Unerwood, South Dakota in early 1900's, and became a Whitted. If anyone is searching this line, you're free to contact me.
email: Holly Hansen - hfhansen@mmm.com - Posted 27 September 1998

Researching: HIRKALA
I am looking for any information on the Hirkala family. Any information would be a great help.
email: Ken Hirkala - k.hirkala@sk.sympatico.ca - Posted 27 September 1998

Researching: MOULIS, PORAZIL, KRATINA, BURDA, MISCLOVSKY
Need information on relatives Moulis, Porazil, Kratina, Burda and Misclovsky who immigrated to Illinois from Bohemia.
email: - MRGENRAY@aol.com - Posted 27 September 1998

Researching: BOROFKA
I am searching for my grandfather's family origins. His name is Frank Borofka and he was born in the County of Budmier, Bohemia on or about 2 Apr. 1841. His father's name was John Borofka and his mother’s given name was Annie. Frank Borofka immigrated to the USA in 1869, arriving in Brown County Wisconsin.
email: Robert P. Borofka - bobb@hambone2.engr.csufresno.edu - Posted 26 September 1998

Researching: SVRATKA, SCHRACHTA, SRACHTA
I am looking for genealogy information on the family and descendents of Kovozazod Svratka, who came to the USA with his brothers in the late 19th century. Their descendents use the last name Schrachta and Srachta and can be mostly be found in the Chicago area.
email: Joe Wallace - jmwallace@wsu.edu - Posted 26 September 1998

Researching: STROHMER, SHROTER
I am interested to learn about any family members named STROHMER who might live in the area formerly called Reichstadt (now Zakupy) in Bohemia, east of Teplice. This family owned tanneries there from 1709, and I would like to know what happened to the business when the last known owner, Wilhelm Strohmer, died in 1914. Present families would be descendants of Fidelius and Theresia Schroter Strohmer, and Daniel, Vincenz and Joseph (their sons). Any information about the Tannery would be appreciated also.
email: Shirley Atkinson - bandsatk@inconnect.com - Posted 26 September 1998

Researching: SVOBODA, HRADA
I am looking for information regarding Franz Svoboda and wife Elizabeth Hrada (sp) who left Jungbunslav, now Mlada Boleslav, for the USA in 1868. They came with 6 children: Anna, who was 17; Joseph, who was 15 (my gr/gr/grandfather); Frank, who was 14; Wenzel, who was 9; Anton, who was 6 and Katherine, who was 4; when they left Bohemia. I would like to look for any and all information regarding this family before they left Bohemia. I am trying to locate birth records and marriage certificate for Franz and Elizabeth.
email: Carol Berg - JANTUNEN@aol.com - Posted 26 September 1998

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