Up until this weekend I had never done any Czech research. I knew my wife's great-grandmother was born somewhere in Bohemia, which is in the Czech Republic, but we didn't dig much deeper. As you may, or may not have, read in my last post, I sort of fell into researching my wife's Czech line last … [Read more...]
Czech’ing Out the Records
19 October 2011 By
I hit up FamilySearch this weekend to do some miscellaneous research. I happened to see their collection of records for the Czech Republic (or Czechoslovakia) and since my wife's great-grandmother, Anna (HUIZEL) COLLINS, was born there, I thought I'd browse them. Unfortunately, I didn't find … [Read more...]
Weekly History: November 28th – December 4th
28 November 2010 By
The weekly history from our family trees for this week. I plan on getting back to this since I've been so busy lately. As always you can browse the history by date on the Dates & Anniversaries page. November 28th 1841 - Died - Constant Joseph LAURENT - Constant is Brian's … [Read more...]
3 September 2009 By
This is a photo of my wife's great-grandparent's Albert & Anna (HUIZEL) COLLINS. Albert was born in Wisconsin and Anan was born in Czechoslovakia. … [Read more...]
Tell Me Thursday: Uncle One-Arm
16 July 2009 By
This is a photo of Jacob HUIZEL (middle) and two unknown women. Jacob is my wife's great-great uncle. The reason for the "One-Arm" title is that we found an earlier photo of Jacob and on the back it just said "Uncle Jake" and under it was written "(one arm)". There are a few photos like this one, … [Read more...]
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