Joan, You are terrific. I've had to take a breather from my gen. research to do the mundane things that have piled up - and here you are finding my "stuff" for me. Koncels were sponsers for my Mom at her baptism and I thought a Koncel married Antonie Antos, but didn't know for sure. Now, I know that's how they married into the family. Thank you again Joan. dolores On May 13, 2006, at 5:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > From: "Joan Peterson" <[email protected]> > > > > Noticed a few Antos while researching St Vitus in Chicago. At the end > of the film is 5 yrs of baptisms which took me by surprise, albeit, a > positive surprise. > > St Vitus Chicago bapt with a breve over the s. > > Page 10 Antos, Frank born 25 Jan 1889 bap 3 Feb 1889 > Father: Antos, Vaclav > Mother: Beranek, Emma > witnesses: Frank Urbanek and Antonie Antos > --- > Page 14 Koncal, Jan born 17 June 1889 bap: 20 June 1889 > Father: Koncal, Jan > Mother: Antos, Antonie > witnesses: Frank and Katerina Stacal? not legible > --- > > Joan Smat Peterson

Noticed a few Antos while researching St Vitus in Chicago. At the end of the film is 5 yrs of baptisms which took me by surprise, albeit, a positive surprise. St Vitus Chicago bapt with a breve over the s. Page 10 Antos, Frank born 25 Jan 1889 bap 3 Feb 1889 Father: Antos, Vaclav Mother: Beranek, Emma witnesses: Frank Urbanek and Antonie Antos --- Page 14 Koncal, Jan born 17 June 1889 bap: 20 June 1889 Father: Koncal, Jan Mother: Antos, Antonie witnesses: Frank and Katerina Stacal? not legible --- Joan Smat Peterson

Hi, Here is one of the Páral name in Prague: http://www.paral.cz/uk/index.htm Paral = Páral (Czech) Prague = Praha (Czech) If you search in Google, you will find maybe more Páral names. Google: páral praha páral cr páral cz V.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Martin" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 3:26 PM Subject: Surname PARAL > Does anyone on this board do any research on the PARAL surname (from > Prague)? A cousin of mine has a grandmother from Prague with this maiden > name. > > Thank you! > > Richard > > ______________________________ --- avast! Antivirus: Odchozi zprava cista - No virus. Virova databaze (VPS): 0619-2, 11.05.2006 Testovano: 12.5.2006 7:02:59 avast! (c) copyright 2000-2006 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lRC.2ACE/3516.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Julie Up to 1918 the records would say Austria or Hungary. A map of A-H http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/austhung.htm After the fall of this empire several new countries were formed and one was Czechoslovakia which in 1993 separated into Czech Republic and Slovak Republic. No village Hereszfatak but a Mereszpatak, Zemplen megye which is Mernik, Zemplin region, Slovak Republic. Use http://mapy.atlas.sk or www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/loctown.htm to locate a town. To locate Mereszpatak / Mernyik go to http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/maps/1910 click on Zemplen, locate Varanno (Vranov nad Toplou ) and North of it is Mernyik (Mernik). An ALL site for research in Slovak Republic: www.iabsi.com/gen/public SK's phone book is at www.zoznamst.sk and area code 056 and 057 are in Zemplin region and a GERMEK, GERMEKOVA (female) in area code 056. www.helenezx.homestead.com www.slovaklinks.com www.slovakfolkcrafts.com Use a One Step to locate an EI manifest: www.stevemorse.org and from Mereszpatak a GYERMEK which is Hungarian spelling of Germek. The LDS-Mormons site is listing Evangelical church records of Mernik. The RC or GC would be in surrounding villages. If your ancestors married in "old country" than the villages would be within 10 miles radius of each other.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lRC.2ACE/3516.1.1 Message Board Post: Unfortunately I have very limited info for these names.What I have so far is that Andrew Germek's Parents were from somewhere in the Czech Republic. They immigrated to the US for a brief period and Andrew was born in the US. According to the Manifest on Ellis Island he was traveling from a town called Hereszfatak, Austria which I presume is where he met and married his wife Elizabeth Janasov in 1909. Andrew returned to the US in 1910. I presume Elizabeth followed in ?1911 since their first child was born in 1912. Andrews parents return to CZechoslovakia and stayed there. As far as Matthew Mahan on a census return he lists his birth place as Vienna Austria. He immigrated to the US in 1901. Andrew and Matthew were Roman Catholic and I believe Elizabeth was of the Byzantine Rite. Any help would be appreciated Thanks

This is a forwarded message From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, May 11, 2006, 2:44:24 PM Subject: {not a subscriber} Re: [CZ] Re: Name spelling: Losos HI! I believe Losos is salmon in Czech. A fellow with the Losos name came to the Western WACzech/Slovak Interest Group and is on the email list for the group. And I think he moved to the midwest. Donald, write me at [email protected]/ for more info. Rosie in WA State -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "V. Kesner" <[email protected]> > Hi, > Franz = Frantisek (with hook top of "s") > Lossos = Losos (Losos, Zdenek - Selway, Julie B. Tourmaline of dravite-uvite > series in graphitic rocks of the Velké Vrbno Group (Silesicum, Czech > Republic). Journal of the Czech Geol. Soc., Praha : Czech Geol. Soc., 43, > 1-2, s. 45-52. ISSN 1210-8197. 1998) - found on the web via google search > engine. > > V. Kesner > E-mail: [email protected] > Mobil: +420 732 275 796 > SKYPE: v.kesner (free VOIP call or chat) > > Personal web: www.volny.cz/kesner.v > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "DONALD GASTORF" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 4:46 PM > Subject: Name spelling > > > > My maternal greatfather FRANZ LOSSOS was born in > > Prague in 1810. Can anyone on the list give the > > the CZECH spelling of the name. > > > > Donald > > St. Louis > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lRC.2ACE/3516.1 Message Board Post: Julie Can you give some more information about your ancestors? What suggests present Czech Republic? What religion? What language spoken by your ancestor? I find GERMEK, MACHAN and JANESOV in Slovak Republic's phone book. www.zoznamst.sk (similar in spelling) Take a look in Ellis Island website: www.ellisislandrecords.org You need to locate a precise place of birth in order to proceed with the research.

Does anyone on this board do any research on the PARAL surname (from Prague)? A cousin of mine has a grandmother from Prague with this maiden name. Thank you! Richard

Hi, Franz = Frantisek (with hook top of "s") Lossos = Losos (Losos, Zdenek - Selway, Julie B. Tourmaline of dravite-uvite series in graphitic rocks of the Velké Vrbno Group (Silesicum, Czech Republic). Journal of the Czech Geol. Soc., Praha : Czech Geol. Soc., 43, 1-2, s. 45-52. ISSN 1210-8197. 1998) - found on the web via google search engine. V. Kesner E-mail: [email protected] Mobil: +420 732 275 796 SKYPE: v.kesner (free VOIP call or chat) Personal web: www.volny.cz/kesner.v ----- Original Message ----- From: "DONALD GASTORF" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 4:46 PM Subject: Name spelling > My maternal greatfather FRANZ LOSSOS was born in > Prague in 1810. Can anyone on the list give the > the CZECH spelling of the name. > > Donald > St. Louis > --- avast! Antivirus: Odchozi zprava cista - No virus. Virova databaze (VPS): 0619-1, 10.05.2006 Testovano: 11.5.2006 7:52:40 avast! (c) copyright 2000-2006 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lRC.2ACE/3516 Message Board Post: any info regarding these family names would be very appreciated. Anyone with info?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Germek, Janasov, Mahan Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lRC.2ACE/3515 Message Board Post: looking for any information on the Germek, Janasov and Mahan families. Anything would be a help and much appreciated

Upcoming Events: On May 10, 2006 at 7:00 pm, the Embassy of the Czech Republic will screen Director Benjamin Tucek's film debut Girlie (Devcatko), a film about a seventeen-year-old named Ema, looking for love and trying to find her place in a disinterested world. On May 11, 2006 at 7:00 pm, the Embassy of the Czech Republic will open the exhibition entitled Three Czech Artists, comprised of large colorful canvases depicting figures in grotesque style by artists Michael Rittstein, Boris Jirku and Josef Bolf. A reception will follow the opening. On May 17, 2006 at 7:30 pm, the Embassy of the Czech Republic welcomes Czech playwright Petr Zelenka in collaboration with Scena Theatre to present a staged reading of his new play Theremin directed by Robert McNamara. The reading will take place in English, translated by Stepan Simek. On May 24 at 7:00 pm, the Embassy of the Czech Republic will screen Lovers and Murderers (Milenci a vrazi). The film takes place in the 1970s and 80s in North Bohemia. The central setting is a house somewhere in Usti nad Labem that belongs to the Kotex factory. The laws that rule this house are not ones of love but of hatred and torture, both physical and mental. This film adaptation is based on the bestseller by Vladimir Paral. Dir. Viktor Polesny, 2004, 108 min., Czech with English subtitles. RESERVATIONS: To make reservations to one of our events, please call 202/274-9100 x. 3413. For questions, please call 202/274-9105. Take care, Mary E. Fetzko Cultural Section

Dear Friends of Czech Culture: On May 17, 2006, the Embassy of the Czech Republic welcomes Czech playwright Petr Zelenka in collaboration with Scena Theatre to present a staged reading of his new play Theremin directed by Robert McNamara at 7:30 pm. Petr Zelenka’s Theremin is based on the real life of Leon Sergeievich Theremin, an inventor, musician, and a spy. He invented the “therminvox” which to this day is the only non-contact musical instrument in the world. A performer on the “therminvox” controls the pitch of the tone by shifting the distance of his or her right hand while controlling the volume through the same with his or her left hand in relation to the transmitter. In the play, Russian-born Theremin takes his invention along with the world’s first electronic music band to America. The group establishes a number of small corporations and works towards making the thereminvox all the rave in America. The idea of “new music” catches the imagination of some of the most influential Americans in the 1920s. The rapid rise of radio as a new medium accelerates its reach, and Theremin himself becomes a darling of both men and women. Consequently, the Great Depression hits putting an end to Theremin’s bold visions. Theremin’s problems start to surmount: the Russian secret service demands more information about the American industry, the American Immigration Service wants to deport him, and his debts skyrocket. Three women play a role in his personal life – his Russian wife Katherine, Lucy the wife of a millionaire who dreams to elope with Theremin, and Lavinia Williams, a twenty years his junior African American who he desires to marry. For questions, please call 202/274-9105. To make a reservation, please call 202/274-9100 x. 3413. A reception will follow the staged reading. Suggested donation: $10. Sincerely, Mary E. Fetzko 202/274-9105 MORE ABOUT THE PLAY: Award-Winning Playwright Brings New Play to DC Scena Theatre to Present Staged Reading of Theremin Ultimately, the play is the story of a man caught in the torrents of 20th century history, unable to be free in his calling, his actions, and his wants. It is a story of an inventor, who was forced to become a musician because he invented a musical instrument, which eventually took over his life. It was because of his invention that Theremin had to mount the world stages and that he became an international star, the object of admiration of women, and finally a gigolo. On some level he didn’t have a chance to alter the course of events. His invention changed and took over his life. In the story, the thereminvox starts off as a musical instrument, later it turns into an alarm system, only to finally transform into a listening device, which, on Stalin’s orders, Theremin himself may have used to secretly tap into Lenin’s personal conversations in the last two years of Lenin’s life. The play was premiered in Dejvicke divadlo (Dejvice Theatre) in Prague on November 17, 2005. It has already been translated into American and British English and Russian. The Polish and German translations are being completed. Petr Zelenka graduated in scriptwriting and dramaturgy from the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague. He made his debut as a director in 1993 with a film about punks, Visaci zamek. In 1997, he premiered his most highly awarded film, the episodic film Buttoners, which won the prestigious Czech Lions for best script, direction and film. Additionally, the popular film Loners (2000) was based on Zelenka’s script. For his recent films, Year of the Devil (2003) and Tales of Common Insanity (2005), he was awarded with main prizes at the International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary. He made his debut in the theatre with translations of plays by Michael Frayn. He presented himself as an author and, for the first time, theatre director with the play Tales of Common Insanity, which in 2001 won the prestigious Alfred Radok Award for play of the year. The Embassy of the Czech Republic is located at 3900 Spring of Freedom Street, NW, Washington, DC 20008.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/sqB.2ACIAE/32 Message Board Post: Looking for lost relatives who left Bohemia in 19th and 20th centuries from southwest Bohemia (Susice, Macice, Bukovnik, Bilenice, Sobesice, Strasice, Volenice). Allegedly living now somewhere in Michigan or/and Missouri. Thanks for any information

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/sqB.2ACIAE/31 Message Board Post: I am looking for my family relatives /name MOJDL or later written "Moydell"/ who left Bohemia in the 19th and 20th centuries. According to my knowledge, they settled somewhere in Michigan and Missouri. Their original place was in Southwest Bohemia, near SUSICE and STRAKONICE town, in villages like Macice, Bukovnik, Strasice, Volenice, Bilenice etc. Please, give notice. Thanks in advance. Lubor Mojdl

My maternal greatfather FRANZ LOSSOS was born in Prague in 1810. Can anyone on the list give the the CZECH spelling of the name. Donald St. Louis

Thank you for this information. I will add it to my files. dolores On May 9, 2006, at 10:00 PM, [email protected] wrote: > From: [email protected] > Date: May 9, 2006 9:34:39 AM CDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Antos & 1890 Census > > > To register to vote, a naturalized citizen was required to have lived > in Illinois for 1 year. > The naturalization 2-step process took 5 years. After living in the US > for 2 years, the alien filed his declaration of intent ( or "first > papers" ). After an additional 3 years, a petition was then filed. > The declaration of intent application contains the most geneaolical > information. > The petition is the naturalization certificate. This certificate > states the alien is denouncing his allegiance to (the name of his > former country) and pledging allegiance to the United States. It bears > the signature of the alien, date, and court in which filed. > Chicago Registrations for the years 1888, 1890, and 1892 exist. >

To register to vote, a naturalized citizen was required to have lived in Illinois for 1 year. The naturalization 2-step process took 5 years. After living in the US for 2 years, the alien filed his declaration of intent ( or "first papers" ). After an additional 3 years, a petition was then filed. The declaration of intent application contains the most geneaolical information. The petition is the naturalization certificate. This certificate states the alien is denouncing his allegiance to (the name of his former country) and pledging allegiance to the United States. It bears the signature of the alien, date, and court in which filed. Chicago Registrations for the years 1888, 1890, and 1892 exist.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Vavra Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lRC.2ACE/3512.2.1 Message Board Post: I am sorry but I don't know. My Vavra died in South Dakota. I am not sure where his parents settled or how he himself came to be in SD. They could have been in Iowa but I am not sure at this time as I can't find him in the census records that far back because they are listed under the head of house only and the children and wife are not listed. Thank you for the info though. I will take it into consideration when trying to find the family.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lRC.2ACE/3512.2 Message Board Post: My immigrant ancestor was Antonin Vavra, who was known in the US as Anthony Weaver. He and his wife and children came from somewhere in Bohemia in 1852. They settled in Tama County, Iowa in a fairly large community of Bohemian immigrants. Does any of this sound familiar?