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/1087.1120 Message Board Post: birdie the kortis*ubans*becvars all settle in burleson and lee county in texas if this the people you are looking for, please email and i will forward the information i have respectfully paula foster

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Podsednik, Vrba, Holecek, Pospisil, Dvoracek, Stepan Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lRC.2ACE/2401.1.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Jacob Holecek [b.1835], my gggrandfather, emigrated to Colorado/Austin County Texas in 1885. His family came from Kninice, Moravia. I do not know if that is where the original Holecek family lived, but where the family was living when five of their children were born from 1858-1873. Kninice is located in the southwest area of Moravia, near the Austrian border [about 10-15 miles north] as well as near the dividing line with Bohemia. The nearest administrative center was Dacice, I believe. Telc is also close by. Where did your Holecek settle and where do you live? We still live in Texas in the Dallas area. All of my families listed in the surname blank lived in that area. June

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Holecek, Forst Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lRC.2ACE/2401.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Since I rarely see the name Holecek, I must ask where Jacob Holecek lived. My great grandfather, Alois Holecek was born about 1856 to Vaclav Holecek and Mary Forst. That is all that I know of him -- I believe he was born in Bohemia. Any information about Jacob Holecek would be helpful. Susan

Joann wrote: My husband and I will be travelling to the Czech Republic in May to meet and visit members of my grandfather's family that I located through my genealogy research. . . . Can anyone on the list give me some suggestions for appropriate gifts to bring to them from the U.S.? I brought baseball caps, stocking caps and shirts from my local baseball and football teams, small bottles of perfume, little make-up and skin care sets, small stuffed animals and miniature games for the kids--I had lots to bring and it had to fit into my one roller bag :-) I also brought a copy of a book about Czech immigrants in my state--lots of pictures showing land and people--they were very interested in what the land is like, what trees, what crops--and the emphasis on preserving Czech heritage in the US Jan Esenwein [email protected]

Who are your Slepicka married into? When, where? Elaine (researching Slepicka and Hruska) Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. --Oscar Wilde Hello Heidi On Wednesday, March 29, 2006, you wrote > listmembers > I am new to list. Only been doing genealogy > research for a little over a year as a hobby. > VERY ADDICTIVE hobby. I am planning a trip to > Europe to see my daughter who is studying abroad > in Vienna. I am planning a short 2 day trip to > Prague and am wondering if listmembers cold tell > me places I must see. I am researching the > following names on my husbands side of family. > Zlab, Dvorak, Vraspir, Riha, Mifka, Javorsky, Schleis > With such short notice of my trip (end of > April) I'm not really planning on genealogy > research as I'm not sure really where to search. > The following are names married into above > names. Czech and Bohemia to New York, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas > Belohlavy > Brezak > Chab > Chlodova > Dedic > Dufek > Dvorak > Fritz > Janda > Janecek > Javorsky > Karpisek > Kaura > Kobes > Koranek > Krizenecky > Kunc > Mifka > Morava > Peterka > Petracek > Pomajzl > Richtarik > Riha > Rychecky > Sasek > Schleis > Shinfeldt > Slepicka > Stich > Svoboda > Tesar > Trucka > Vosika > Vostrez > Vraspir > Vyhnalek > Zajicek > Zivey > Zlab > Zlatnik >

This is a forwarded message From: anton19542001 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, March 29, 2006, 6:31:51 PM Subject: {not a subscriber} Re: [CZ] new to list I neglected to show the children of my grandfather, William Joseph and grandma Eulalia Niesen. They are: William Richard Norm Suzanne. There you go. john wrote: > Hi > Here's my line: > Vaclav/Wenceslas/Wincel K. DVORAK, m. Mary (nee DVORAK) DVORAK (not > sure date, but in Bohemia, Austrian Empire > Children: Frank, b Feb 2, 1878, Bohemia > Vaclav/Vandy b Jan 1881, Bohemia > Neither married > Joseph, b July 5, 1888, m Josephine LINSCHEID, both born Muscoda, > Grant County, WI, which is south west corner of Wisconsin along the > Mississippi River, Muscoda being on the Wisconsin River to the north. > Children: Paul (Chief of Police, > Muscoda, m Veda (nee WILSON) > Kathryn, m Otto RINDFLISCH > Robert, m Evelyn (nee PAULSON) > William, m Eulalia Suzanne (nee NIESEN) (b. Chicago) in 1926, South > Bend, IN, St Joseph County > THere, That's them. So it doesn't sound like there is a connection, > BUT, A Joseph SWOBODA was a witness when my great grandfather filled > out his naturalization papers with 4 signatures. SOOOOOOOOO. I'm > thinking if you have a Joseph Swoboda..........(who was an > acquaintance of my great grandfather) then there might be very well > some sort of a connection > > > Heidi wrote: > >> John, >> >> >> >> Any possible connection ? >> >> >> >> My husbands grandmother was Olga DVORAK Tombstone states born 04 >> February >> 1905 died 19 December 1960 Wilber Czech Cemetery Wilber, Saline >> Co., >> Nebraska >> >> >> >> I have ship records stating sailed from Bremen to New York, arrived >> in New >> York 27, June 1907, accompanied by mother Franciska DVORAK, Anna DVORAK >> neice Catrina >> >> >> >> I have Frank DVORAK Naturalization papers: of Dorchester, >> Nebraska 31 >> March 1922 >> >> wife Frantiska age 47 years, Olga age 16 years >> >> >> >> parents of Olga DVORAK were Frank DVORAK born 04 December 1871 Pohore, >> Czechoslovakia died 05 April 1938 Pleasant Hill, Nebraska and Frances >> VRASPIR born 15 March 1876 Kladno, Bohemia died 17 December 1936 >> Dorchester, >> Nebraska >> >> >> >> I also have a Antonia DVORAK married to Frank JAVORSKY (son of Frank >> DVORAK >> and Caroline SCHLEIS) >> >> >> >> Heidi in Iowa >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "john" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 3:09 PM >> Subject: Re: [CZ] new to list >> >> >> >> >>> Hi Heidi! I'm a Dvorak too! >>> >>> >>> Heidi wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> listmembers >>>> >>>> I am new to list. Only been doing genealogy research for a little >>>> over a >>>> >>> >> year as a hobby. VERY ADDICTIVE hobby. I am planning a trip to Europe >> to see >> my daughter who is studying abroad in Vienna. I am planning a short 2 >> day >> trip to Prague and am wondering if listmembers cold tell me places I >> must >> see. I am researching the following names on my husbands side of family. >> >> >>>> Zlab, Dvorak, Vraspir, Riha, Mifka, Javorsky, Schleis >>>> With such short notice of my trip (end of April) I'm not really >>>> planning >>>> >>> >> on genealogy research as I'm not sure really where to search. >> >> >>>> The following are names married into above names. Czech and Bohemia to >>>> >>> >> New York, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas >> >> >>>> Belohlavy >>>> Brezak >>>> Chab >>>> Chlodova >>>> Dedic >>>> Dufek >>>> Dvorak >>>> Fritz >>>> Janda >>>> Janecek >>>> Javorsky >>>> Karpisek >>>> Kaura >>>> Kobes >>>> Koranek >>>> Krizenecky >>>> Kunc >>>> Mifka >>>> Morava >>>> Peterka >>>> Petracek >>>> Pomajzl >>>> Richtarik >>>> Riha >>>> Rychecky >>>> Sasek >>>> Schleis >>>> Shinfeldt >>>> Slepicka >>>> Stich >>>> Svoboda >>>> Tesar >>>> Trucka >>>> Vosika >>>> Vostrez >>>> Vraspir >>>> Vyhnalek >>>> Zajicek >>>> Zivey >>>> Zlab >>>> Zlatnik >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> Heidi >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ==== CZECH Mailing List ==== >>>> To unsubscribe from this list click on >>>> mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe (list mode) or >>>> mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe (digest mode) >>>> Contact [email protected] for list related problems >>>> For the CZECH-L archives, go to >>>> >>> >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/czech >> >> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> ==== CZECH Mailing List ==== >>> All matters pertaining to list administration are exclusively >>> handled by the List Administrator. If you have personal >>> problems, questions or suggestions about list mail send an >>> email to the administrator. The subject is not appropriate >>> for list discussion. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> ==== CZECH Mailing List ==== >> To unsubscribe from this list click on >> mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe (list mode) or >> mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe (digest mode) >> Contact [email protected] for list related problems >> For the CZECH-L archives, go to >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/czech >> >> >> >> > > > ==== CZECH Mailing List ==== > Czech Message Boards are at > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=topics.ethnic > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Podsednik, Pospisil, Holecek, Vrba Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lRC.2ACE/2401.1.1.2 Message Board Post: This is my family! My great grandmother Marie [b. 1864] was one of the illigimate children of Viktoria Pospichal [b. 1827]and Jacob Holecek. This uncovers a mystery about my g-grandmother, for at times she listed Podsednik as her maiden name and at other times Holecek! When did Frantisek Podsednik [b. 1831] die? Marie Holecek and John Vrba/Wrba emigrated as a couple in 1884. We are trying to find records for John Vrba and his parents, Anton Vrba and Johanna Jakubec. Thank you so much! June Vrba-Dvoracek Frawley

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Vrba Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lRC.2ACE/2318.505.1.2 Message Board Post: I know lots of Soukups who lived in West, Texas. The name was and is pronounced sou-cup. I am also searching Vrba. My ggrandfather John emigrated to Texas in 1884. We have the ship's passage record, but no hometown. Tradition has it that he was from Kynice,Bohemia, but we have no definite proof as yet, June

I have a Anna Peterka born 14 September 1849 in Bohemia married 18 November 1879 to Josef Kaura born 05 March 1849 in Bohemia. Josef and Anna are buried in Wilber Czech Cemetery Wilber, Saline Co., Nebraska I can't connect these individuals to my Dvorak family yet. Heidi ----- Original Message ----- From: "john" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 4:32 PM Subject: Re: Fwd: {not a subscriber} Re: [CZ] new to list > the BIBA family, for which my dad's uncle Frank DVORAK worked at one > time at a farm, lived in Richland Center/Muscoda area of Wisconsin, on > the Wisconsin River. Well, they are related to the Peterka family! > > > > List Administration wrote: > > >This is a forwarded message > > > >From: anton19542001 <[email protected]> > > > >To: [email protected] > >Date: Wednesday, March 29, 2006, 4:09:15 PM > >Subject: {not a subscriber} Re: [CZ] new to list > > > > > >Hi Heidi > >I'm a Dvorak too! > > > > > >Heidi wrote: > > > > > > > >>listmembers > >> > >>I am new to list. Only been doing genealogy research for a little over a year as a hobby. VERY ADDICTIVE hobby. I am planning a trip to Europe to see my daughter who is studying abroad in Vienna. I am planning a short 2 day trip to Prague and am wondering if listmembers cold tell me places I must see. I am researching the following names on my husbands side of family. > >>Zlab, Dvorak, Vraspir, Riha, Mifka, Javorsky, Schleis > >>With such short notice of my trip (end of April) I'm not really planning on genealogy research as I'm not sure really where to search. > >> > >>The following are names married into above names. Czech and Bohemia to New York, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas > >> > >> > >> Belohlavy > >> Brezak > >> Chab > >> Chlodova > >> Dedic > >> Dufek > >> Dvorak > >> Fritz > >> Janda > >> Janecek > >> Javorsky > >> Karpisek > >> Kaura > >> Kobes > >> Koranek > >> Krizenecky > >> Kunc > >> Mifka > >> Morava > >> Peterka > >> Petracek > >> Pomajzl > >> Richtarik > >> Riha > >> Rychecky > >> Sasek > >> Schleis > >> Shinfeldt > >> Slepicka > >> Stich > >> Svoboda > >> Tesar > >> Trucka > >> Vosika > >> Vostrez > >> Vraspir > >> Vyhnalek > >> Zajicek > >> Zivey > >> Zlab > >> Zlatnik > >> > >> > >>Thanks > >>Heidi > >> > >> > >> > >>==== CZECH Mailing List ==== > >>To unsubscribe from this list click on > >>mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe (list mode) or > >>mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe (digest mode) > >>Contact [email protected] for list related problems > >>For the CZECH-L archives, go to http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/czech > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > >==== CZECH Mailing List ==== > >All matters pertaining to list administration are exclusively > >handled by the List Administrator. If you have personal > >problems, questions or suggestions about list mail send an > >email to the administrator. The subject is not appropriate > >for list discussion. > > > > > > > > > > > ==== CZECH Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this list click on > mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe (list mode) or > mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe (digest mode) > Contact [email protected] for list related problems > For the CZECH-L archives, go to http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/czech > >

Hi! Bring a softback picture book of the city you live in, a calendar of the state of city I live, or last time I had knit fun fur one skein scarves for the ladies and calendars for the guys. those did not take up much space. Fun fur had not hit Europe yet! They also liked the collage of pictures of my dad or mom's family. Postcards of your city are good and pictures of my family. I am sure others have good hints, too. Rosie in WA State On Mar 29, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Joanne Brown wrote: > My husband and I will be travelling to the Czech Republic in May to > meet and visit members of my grandfather's family that I located > through my genealogy research. I have been corresponding via e-mail > with my second cousin for two years, and she will be our guide and > interpreter. We will be meeting relatives of all ages, from teens > through the seventies. I have been told that it is customary to bring > everyone small gifts. One of my relatives visited the Czech Republic > a few years ago and felt quite embarrassed when her relatives showered > them with gifts and she had nothing to give them in return. Can > anyone on the list give me some suggestions for appropriate gifts to > bring to them from the U.S.? Thanks! > > > ==== CZECH Mailing List ==== > Please do not repost the whole digest when replying to mail. >

Well if you translate Vaclav to the German language, it becomes Wenceslas [email protected] wrote: >My Uncle was Vaclav, and he called himself William. I guess we will never >know what is the true meaning in english.Libby > > >==== CZECH Mailing List ==== >If you'd like to search our archives, please visit >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=CZECH > > > >

I understand it to be Jan-Jon-=John..

My Uncle was Vaclav, and he called himself William. I guess we will never know what is the true meaning in english.Libby

According to my CZ family Matej is Matthew..My Grandfather was Jan and when he came to the USA, It was John. I too have found in my research that the names were so badly mis spelled. I believe maybe when the ancestors came to the USA, they may have been afraid to make corrections.My ancestors were Ceresnaks,and if you ever saw how this name was mis-spelled. I had such a hard time tracing back. My grandmother was last name Ruza, and that too was a mess. I still have not found info on her....Libby

the BIBA family, for which my dad's uncle Frank DVORAK worked at one time at a farm, lived in Richland Center/Muscoda area of Wisconsin, on the Wisconsin River. Well, they are related to the Peterka family! List Administration wrote: >This is a forwarded message > >From: anton19542001 <[email protected]> > >To: [email protected] >Date: Wednesday, March 29, 2006, 4:09:15 PM >Subject: {not a subscriber} Re: [CZ] new to list > > >Hi Heidi >I'm a Dvorak too! > > >Heidi wrote: > > > >>listmembers >> >>I am new to list. Only been doing genealogy research for a little over a year as a hobby. VERY ADDICTIVE hobby. I am planning a trip to Europe to see my daughter who is studying abroad in Vienna. I am planning a short 2 day trip to Prague and am wondering if listmembers cold tell me places I must see. I am researching the following names on my husbands side of family. >>Zlab, Dvorak, Vraspir, Riha, Mifka, Javorsky, Schleis >>With such short notice of my trip (end of April) I'm not really planning on genealogy research as I'm not sure really where to search. >> >>The following are names married into above names. Czech and Bohemia to New York, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas >> >> >> Belohlavy >> Brezak >> Chab >> Chlodova >> Dedic >> Dufek >> Dvorak >> Fritz >> Janda >> Janecek >> Javorsky >> Karpisek >> Kaura >> Kobes >> Koranek >> Krizenecky >> Kunc >> Mifka >> Morava >> Peterka >> Petracek >> Pomajzl >> Richtarik >> Riha >> Rychecky >> Sasek >> Schleis >> Shinfeldt >> Slepicka >> Stich >> Svoboda >> Tesar >> Trucka >> Vosika >> Vostrez >> Vraspir >> Vyhnalek >> Zajicek >> Zivey >> Zlab >> Zlatnik >> >> >>Thanks >>Heidi >> >> >> >>==== CZECH Mailing List ==== >>To unsubscribe from this list click on >>mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe (list mode) or >>mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe (digest mode) >>Contact [email protected] for list related problems >>For the CZECH-L archives, go to http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/czech >> >> >> >> >> >> > > >==== CZECH Mailing List ==== >All matters pertaining to list administration are exclusively >handled by the List Administrator. If you have personal >problems, questions or suggestions about list mail send an >email to the administrator. The subject is not appropriate >for list discussion. > > > >

Hi Here's my line: Vaclav/Wenceslas/Wincel K. DVORAK, m. Mary (nee DVORAK) DVORAK (not sure date, but in Bohemia, Austrian Empire Children: Frank, b Feb 2, 1878, Bohemia Vaclav/Vandy b Jan 1881, Bohemia Neither married Joseph, b July 5, 1888, m Josephine LINSCHEID, both born Muscoda, Grant County, WI, which is south west corner of Wisconsin along the Mississippi River, Muscoda being on the Wisconsin River to the north. Children: Paul (Chief of Police, Muscoda, m Veda (nee WILSON) Kathryn, m Otto RINDFLISCH Robert, m Evelyn (nee PAULSON) William, m Eulalia Suzanne (nee NIESEN) (b. Chicago) in 1926, South Bend, IN, St Joseph County THere, That's them. So it doesn't sound like there is a connection, BUT, A Joseph SWOBODA was a witness when my great grandfather filled out his naturalization papers with 4 signatures. SOOOOOOOOO. I'm thinking if you have a Joseph Swoboda..........(who was an acquaintance of my great grandfather) then there might be very well some sort of a connection Heidi wrote: >John, > > > >Any possible connection ? > > > >My husbands grandmother was Olga DVORAK Tombstone states born 04 February >1905 died 19 December 1960 Wilber Czech Cemetery Wilber, Saline Co., >Nebraska > > > >I have ship records stating sailed from Bremen to New York, arrived in New >York 27, June 1907, accompanied by mother Franciska DVORAK, Anna DVORAK >neice Catrina > > > > I have Frank DVORAK Naturalization papers: of Dorchester, Nebraska 31 >March 1922 > >wife Frantiska age 47 years, Olga age 16 years > > > >parents of Olga DVORAK were Frank DVORAK born 04 December 1871 Pohore, >Czechoslovakia died 05 April 1938 Pleasant Hill, Nebraska and Frances >VRASPIR born 15 March 1876 Kladno, Bohemia died 17 December 1936 Dorchester, >Nebraska > > > >I also have a Antonia DVORAK married to Frank JAVORSKY (son of Frank DVORAK >and Caroline SCHLEIS) > > > >Heidi in Iowa > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "john" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 3:09 PM >Subject: Re: [CZ] new to list > > > > >>Hi Heidi! I'm a Dvorak too! >> >> >>Heidi wrote: >> >> >> >>>listmembers >>> >>>I am new to list. Only been doing genealogy research for a little over a >>> >>> >year as a hobby. VERY ADDICTIVE hobby. I am planning a trip to Europe to see >my daughter who is studying abroad in Vienna. I am planning a short 2 day >trip to Prague and am wondering if listmembers cold tell me places I must >see. I am researching the following names on my husbands side of family. > > >>>Zlab, Dvorak, Vraspir, Riha, Mifka, Javorsky, Schleis >>>With such short notice of my trip (end of April) I'm not really planning >>> >>> >on genealogy research as I'm not sure really where to search. > > >>>The following are names married into above names. Czech and Bohemia to >>> >>> >New York, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas > > >>> Belohlavy >>> Brezak >>> Chab >>> Chlodova >>> Dedic >>> Dufek >>> Dvorak >>> Fritz >>> Janda >>> Janecek >>> Javorsky >>> Karpisek >>> Kaura >>> Kobes >>> Koranek >>> Krizenecky >>> Kunc >>> Mifka >>> Morava >>> Peterka >>> Petracek >>> Pomajzl >>> Richtarik >>> Riha >>> Rychecky >>> Sasek >>> Schleis >>> Shinfeldt >>> Slepicka >>> Stich >>> Svoboda >>> Tesar >>> Trucka >>> Vosika >>> Vostrez >>> Vraspir >>> Vyhnalek >>> Zajicek >>> Zivey >>> Zlab >>> Zlatnik >>> >>> >>>Thanks >>>Heidi >>> >>> >>> >>>==== CZECH Mailing List ==== >>>To unsubscribe from this list click on >>>mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe (list mode) or >>>mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe (digest mode) >>>Contact [email protected] for list related problems >>>For the CZECH-L archives, go to >>> >>> >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/czech > > >>> >>> >>> >>> >>==== CZECH Mailing List ==== >>All matters pertaining to list administration are exclusively >>handled by the List Administrator. If you have personal >>problems, questions or suggestions about list mail send an >>email to the administrator. The subject is not appropriate >>for list discussion. >> >> >> >> > > > >==== CZECH Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from this list click on >mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe (list mode) or >mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe (digest mode) >Contact [email protected] for list related problems >For the CZECH-L archives, go to http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/czech > > > >

My husband and I will be travelling to the Czech Republic in May to meet and visit members of my grandfather's family that I located through my genealogy research. I have been corresponding via e-mail with my second cousin for two years, and she will be our guide and interpreter. We will be meeting relatives of all ages, from teens through the seventies. I have been told that it is customary to bring everyone small gifts. One of my relatives visited the Czech Republic a few years ago and felt quite embarrassed when her relatives showered them with gifts and she had nothing to give them in return. Can anyone on the list give me some suggestions for appropriate gifts to bring to them from the U.S.? Thanks!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lRC.2ACE/3487 Message Board Post: WALSH HERITAGE: VOL 2 1881-1981 PAGE 996 - 997 FRANK VEJTASA Frank and his wife, Frances, were both born in Moravia which is now included in Czechoslovakia. Frank was born 18 Oct 1855. He came to Omaha, Nebraska in 1880. He drove a one-horse street car there for two years. during this time, his greatest ambition was to get to North Dakota and to homestead. after two years in Omaha, he saved enough money to build himself a covered wagon, buy a team of horses and he and a friend: Henry Schneckloth, started for North Dakota. In the summer of 1882, they arrived in Grafton and found settlements and the land all taken up, but were told that if they kept going west they would find free land. Upon arriving about 3.5 miles east of where Fairdale now stands, he started a homestead and a tree claim there. Frank's closest neighbors were an Indian camp about a half a mile west of his homestead. There was lots of buffalo and good prairie grass, so Frank built a sod house, dug a well and settled down. In 1884, Frank married a young nurse, Frances Svoboda. She was born 11 Nov 1870 and was 10 years old when she came to America. Her parents settled in Fairdale. Two of her sisters were: Mrs Frank Hosna of Adams and a Mrs Zeman fra Lankin. Both Frank and Frances spoke the Bohemian and German language very well. No one knows how many years the buffalo had roamed the prairies as one of the first jobs was to clear the fields and hay sloughs by picking up their bones. One summer Frank and Frances picked 11 loads of buffalo bones and hauled them 50 miles round trip to Park River and got one dollar a load, the wagon box full. Most of them were picked up in one slough. It remains a mystery why so many buffalo had died in this one slough. In the photograph of Frank and Frances, he is wearing a coat that was made out of the first buffalo that Frank killed on the North dakota prairie, the mittens were also made fra the same buffalo hide. There were many hardships those early years. Frances has told that when she was home alone, plowing with a walking plow and a baby strapped to her back, a group of Indians came and begged her for some treats. So she tied up the horses, went into the house and made them each a sandwich of sorts and they left in a happy mood. The settlers got the land free but as they had to have equipment to farm, they had to borrow money fra the banks and to do so had tomortgage their land. So many of their crops used to freeze up in those days and when the farmers couldn't pay up, they would lose their land. Nearly all of the homesteaders were using oxen for power but Frank had a team of horses that he brought fra Nebraska. But after two straight years of frozen crops in order to save his land, he had to sell the horses and go back to oxen for a couple of years. Horses were worth lots of money in those years. The Indians had spotted ponies, too small for farm work. Pretty soon there were sod houses springing up in the prairies and new neighbors were coming in and settling about two miles apart. Slowly but surely, the Indians and buffalo startedmoving out. Cowboys used to come and pick up cattle fra the homesteaders, run them about 20 miles west, graze them all summer, and bring them back in the fall for $5.00 a head. The settlers had to plow fire breaks around their homes. If not, they took a chance they could lose all that they had. Among the settlers there would always be some good musicians and singers. They would gather at farmsteads for weekend parties and would really have a good time. There were many peddlers, gypsies and beggars around. Vlast remembers when he was still a very little boy he gave a beggar all the money he had in the world - one dime. The country doctors were so very faithful. They would travel in blizzards and all sorts of bad weather to take care of the sick. By 1918 the Vejtasa farm was considered one of the outstanding farms in Walsh County. Vlast being in the 4-H remembers the many 4-H shows being held there. The showing consisted of beautiful Percheron horses, Shorthorn cattle, Chester White hogs and Hampshire sheep. Already in those years, Frank had an orchard, so when the family picked all the apples, plums and cherries that the family could use up through the winter, then the people fra surrounding towns would come out and get all they wanted. Son Frank had a musuem on the place and also there were many large pens of fur-bearing animals. He was also a taxidermist and stuffed alot of animals and birds in the community. Much of his artwork is on display at the state capitol in Bismarck and has arranged many of the specimans in their natural environment. The whole family was trained to work very hard and as the first World War broke out, two of the boys left for the Army. This placed a labor shortage on the farms and Vlast, being only 12, had to take a full man's place all around the farm and with the threshing crew. Then the war was over and the boys came home and decided to work and manage the farm. About that time everything was booming, land was selling for $75 an acre and everyone was trying to expand. People were mortgaging their property to buy more. Then came the most talked of thirties, this $75 an acre land dropped to $10 and $15 an acre. With it came seven years of drought, the market dropped out of everything. The cattle could not be wintered because there was no feed. The government took them off our hands for $20 for top cows and down to $5 a head. Hogs were $3.50 each. In 1934 the grasshoppers took the whole crop. One year we got three bushels per acre, wheat sold for 23 cents a bushel, barley for 13 cents and oats for eight cents. Top wages for harvesting and threshing were 20 cents an hour. Our beautiful farm of five quarters of land and many nice buildings were mortgaged for allit was worth. Frank's 54 years of hard labor was gone. Their Mother was gone by then, but this was very difficult for their Dad to take after accomplishing so much and all at once he had nothing, through no fault of his own. Frank and Frances Vejtasa spent 37 years together on this homestead. Eleven children were raised on this homestead, seven boys and four girls: John Vejtasa married Inga Rinnhaugen: they had seven children Frank Vejtasa married Ethel Haug: they had four children Cyril Vejtasa married Annie Lofgren: they had five children France Vejtasa remained single Anton Vejtasa remained single Marie Vejtasa married Hans Gronlie: they had ten children Antonia Vejtasa married Clarence Hendrickson they had five children Vlast Vejtasa married Rose Landsem they had two children Emelia Vejtasa remained single Bohomil Vejtasa remained single Stanley Vejtasa married Alice Anderson: they had three children Frank and Frances had 12 children. Their first born: Frank, died at the age of 3 months. In spite of all the hardships, they raised a healthy family. Vlast credits this to the good healthy soil as most of the food products had to be raised on the farm in those days. Frank and his wife resided on this homestead until the time of their deaths. Frances died 7 March 1921 and Frank died 5 Apr 1937. This farm site is still in the Vejtasa family, being owned by his grandsons: Don and Armand, sons of the late Frank Vejtasa Jr. The Vejtasa farm was noted for being a Red Fox Farm as well as a grain farm. Quite a harvest was reaped fra the pelts of the animals they raised. PHOTOGRAPH: Frank and Frances PHOTOGRAPH: Frank, Frances, Antonia, Francis, Mary and Emelia in automobile. NOTE: if you would like more information, please contact me. I own these 4 volumes on the Walsh Heritage, ND books. I will be posting the other surnames as time permits. ~~Volunteer Posting~~

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Haug/Langerud/Jackson Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lRC.2ACE/3486 Message Board Post: WALSH HERITAGE, ND: VOL 2 1881-1981 PAGE 997 FRANK AND ETHEL VEJTASA Frank was born in a dugout on the plains of North Dakota on 9 Sep 1890 to Frank and Frances Vejtasa, who homesteaded about four miles southeast of Fairdale, ND. He had sevenbrothers and four sisters. Frank began his hobby of mounting birds and animals when he was 14 yrs old - not due to a teachers influence but because he, a great outdoorsman, wanted to preserve nature. Later being a true artist, he took up painting so he could paint backgrounds so as to depict his animals in their true habitat. In hiw ownwords he said: "I attended the school of nature where God himself is my teacher, in our wonderful outdoors." Frank was reowned throughtout the state and midwest for his artistry of wildlife in addition to his taxidermy displays at the state capitol at Bismarck. He furnished most of the displays and painted backgrounds for the Cloverleaf Wildlife Museum of Jamestown and also at the Minto Historical Museum. He also prepared displays of habitat groups for the Game and Fish Department, as well as for individual hunters. He married Ethel Haug, daughter of Anton Haug, of Fairdale on 14 June 1930 at Grafton. Frank and Ethel remained on the Vejtasa farm and farmed the land until his death. Five children were born to them: Armand Vejtasa - Adams, ND Dorothy Vejtasa (Mrs Miles Ellison) Lois Vejtasa (Mrs Severson) - Grafton, ND Don Vejtasa - Adams, ND and a son who died in infancy. Frank died 5 March 1961 at the age of 71 years and is buried in the Silvesta Cemetery. His memory lives in all the beautiful things he created. PHOTOGRAPH: Frank and Ethel Haug Vejtasa ~~Volunteer Posting

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lRC.2ACE/3485 Message Board Post: WALSH HERITAGE, ND: VOL 4, 1881-1981 PAGE 1336 VLAST G. VEJTASA was born of pioneer parents: Frank and Frances Vejtasa on 8 Nov 1903 in Silvesta Township, Walsh County, ND. He went through the 8th grade in a small school, called the Vejtasa School. He received a class pin for not missing one day in the first five years of school. Eleven children were raised in the Vejtasa family. On their homeplace there were large vegetable gardens, all kinds of fruit trees, every form of animal life, even fur-bearing animals. The Vejtasa farm was often called the Red Fox Farm. In this large family every one had to work, even at a young age. Very few illnesses occured and when they did, their Mother, who had been a nurse, seemed to know just what to do - using methods very similar to those employed by massage therapists of almost a century later. For the first 75 years of history in North Dakota, no one of the Vejtasa family needed hospitalization. In 1928, when Vlast was 24 years old, he married Rose Landsem of Edmore, ND. They farmed for almost 25 years. during these years, Vlast served as chairman of the local school board; was chairman of the Farmers Union Local; was a director of the Ramsey County Farmers Union board; and chairman of the Newland Township board. He was also active in the church, serving as an officer in the Lutheran Brotherhood. He was a member of the hospital board, as clerk of construction, when the hospital in Edmore, ND was being built. There were personal trials, including the Great Depression: seven years of grasshoppers and drought, turning over most of his cattle to the goverment to prevent them fra starving to death. There was no market, $12 to $20 dollars for a cow, and $5.00 for calves. That same winter sudden blindness overtook Vlast and after two months came the unanimous verdict, fra eye specialist consulted, that there was no hope and thathe should try to adjust to life without sight. During the long days and nights, he often prayed that the Lord would call him out of this world, so he would not be a burden to his wife and small daughter (later another lovely daughter completed the family circle). Then one day, he took the advice of an elderly eye specialist, to use steam packs on his eyes several times daily. After nearly two months, a miracle happened - he began to see light. Slowly eyesight returned to complete normal, and has had no recurrence of any eye problems since. About 6 years later, severe back pains developed. After 48 chiropractic treaments, with no results, a bone specialist was consulted. After numerous x-rays the diagnosis was generalized as arthritis, resulting fra a kick by a horse, when he was about 18 yrs of age. An eight-inch bone removed fra his leg was recommended as a spinal graft; this would have left him cripped on both leg and back. The nest seven years were a battle with arthritis, sometimes being confined to a bed. A visit to the West Coast found a massage therapist at Bellingham, Washington and after 52 treatments, the arthritis pain was all gone. Now, 39 years later, there is still no back pain and he has not lost one day of work in his clinic for 28 years. Prior to opening his Health Clinic in Edmore, ND, Vlast travelled constantly. He worked four years with the Educational Department of the North Dakota Farmers Union. He spent the summer of 1951 in Alaska. In the late 1940's he lobbied in Washington, DC fighti! ng for R.E.A., so that farmers could have electricity. In his travels he talked to so many people like himself, who could not obtain help through medical procedures, but who might respond to some other form of therapy. After much thought and prayer came the decision - to enroll in a course in scientific massge, in a college in Chicago, Illinois. After graduation Vlast worked in one of thelarge hospitals in Chicago. An emergency called him back home to Edmore, ND. Plans were to return to Chicago. The college advised him not to start work in Edmore as the town of 400 people was too small and also, it was his home town. However, friends urged him to stay. So he decided to give it a try, starting out giving massage treatments in a large room in his home, this making it easier to move if it became necessary. As the years passed, people came for help not only fra surrounding areas but far away states and Canada. Many times, Vlast wondered at the power of the Almighty and the many miracles of life, that manifest themselves through that which the Creator had apparently let flow through, as he puts it, his humble hands. Mrs Vejtasa helped her husband in this growing practice and the teamwork served many so well. Her death came in 1969, leaving a great void in Vlast's life. In 1964 he built a new office with facilities for the latest methods in the field of massage therapy. Soon it was necessary, even without any form of advertising, to keep a strict appointment schedule. Vlast has proved that one can be successful in the massage profession, even in a small town. All are encouraged to good habits of living, that help protect their health while they still have it, and prevent, as long as possible, serious physical problems. Two daughters were born to Vlast and Rose Vejtasa: Delores Fjalstad, Anaheim, CA; and Phyllis Hefti, Orange, CA. There are eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren. On 26 sept, 1980, Vlast married Charlotte R. Muehlen of Penn, ND; also a graduate and licensed massage therapist. PHOTOGRAPH: Rose, Phyllis, Delores and Vlast Vejtasa PHOTOGRAPH: Emelia and Vlast Vejtasa PHOTOGRAPH: Vlast and Charlotte ~~Volunteer Posting~~