I have spent countless hours on Ancestry looking for my GGP's Antos/Janecek immigration ship. I've tried all sorts off wild card immigration searches. My other set of Bohemian GGP's Germanized their first names when they boarded a German Bark, so I have considered that this group did something to their last names that is making it difficult to find them and have tried names such as Antholz. Do you have any suggestions for what to try next? My maternal Great Grandparents immigrated with their blended family in 1885 or 1886 [family members listed both in various census]. Hence, some members of the group were named Janecek and some Antos. Possibly, they all used Antos as their last name. My GM Marie/Mary often used Antos as her surname [even her legal name] though she was born a Janecek. As adults, the Janecek boys did use Janecek as their name. They may have declared their country of origin as either Bohemia or Austria as Bohemia was dominated by Austria at the time. The group probably boarded a ship in Bremen if they followed the usual pattern for Bohemians. Antos is a fairly unusual name, unlike Janecek which is more common - with many variations in spelling. Great Grandparents GGM - Anna Janecek Antos b. about 1853 ?? Step-GGF - Jan Antos b. 1855 Children Antonie Antos [married Krofta/Kroftova] b. 1870 Voitech [?Albert] Janecek b. 1871? Felix Antos b. 1877 Marie Janecek [Antos] b. 1875 Anton Janecek b. 1877 dolores desideri Looking for: Desideri, Innocenti, Lupori, Lenzi, Priban, Preban, Janecek, and Antos.
Dolores, I believe that there actually is no such name in Czech as "Antos;" the name is actually "Antos^" (hacek-s), pronounced "AHN-tosh." It could perhaps be variously misspelled by Germans and Anglo-Americans as Antash, Antosh, Ontosh, Ontash, Antasch, Antosch, Ontasch, Ontosch, Untosh, Untash, Untosch, Untasch, Hantash, Hantosh, Hontash, Hontosh, Hantasch, Hantosch, Entos, Entosh, Entosch, etc., atd., usw. Since you did not seem to specify US port of entry, I checked the Baca Books Vol. 6 and 9, for NYC and Balto. in the 1880s, resp. and found several entries for Antos, including the following (I did not check Galveston, and neither NO nor Mobile are included): Vojtech Antos, age 24, arr. Balto. on the SS "Main" 13 Oct 1886. Dominik Antos, 41, Anna 43, Julie 17, Vincenz 13, Marie 11, hedwig, 9, Stepan 7, Anna 4, Franz 3, from Kobelinice, Moravia; arr. Balto. on the "Gera" on 30 May 1894, bound for Lincoln, NE. Franz Antosch, 30, Maria 28, Johann 11/12, arr. Balto. on the SS "Hermann" 16 June 1880, bound for Nebraska. Franz Antosch, 27, arr. NY on the "Ohio" 7 June 1881. There are lots and lots of Janaceks/Janeceks/Janiceks/Janecks, etc. I did not spend the time to match Antos dates with Janacek dates, but it could be done. There are also entries for both in Filby's PILI, which is in book form and on Ancestry.com. If you are not already aware of it, you might also try the ISTG site: http://immigrantships.net/index.html Specific search page for Antos results: http://search.freefind.com/find.html?pageid=r&id=45264389&mode=ALL&query=antos&ics=1&fr=0 There is also the German Emigration site for the Deutsche Auswandere Haus in Bremerhaven. Their records are not yet online, but they will do lookups for a fee. http://www.dah-bremerhaven.de/english/hauptseite_e.html Hope you can get something out of all this. If you need me to do lookups in Baca or PILI, please give me more information and I will look. Anthony dolores desideri <[email protected]> wrote: I have spent countless hours on Ancestry looking for my GGP's Antos/Janecek immigration ship. I've tried all sorts off wild card immigration searches. My other set of Bohemian GGP's Germanized their first names when they boarded a German Bark, so I have considered that this group did something to their last names that is making it difficult to find them and have tried names such as Antholz. Do you have any suggestions for what to try next? My maternal Great Grandparents immigrated with their blended family in 1885 or 1886 [family members listed both in various census]. Hence, some members of the group were named Janecek and some Antos. Possibly, they all used Antos as their last name. My GM Marie/Mary often used Antos as her surname [even her legal name] though she was born a Janecek. As adults, the Janecek boys did use Janecek as their name. They may have declared their country of origin as either Bohemia or Austria as Bohemia was dominated by Austria at the time. The group probably boarded a ship in Bremen if they followed the usual pattern for Bohemians. Antos is a fairly unusual name, unlike Janecek which is more common - with many variations in spelling. Great Grandparents GGM - Anna Janecek Antos b. about 1853 ?? Step-GGF - Jan Antos b. 1855 Children Antonie Antos [married Krofta/Kroftova] b. 1870 Voitech [?Albert] Janecek b. 1871? Felix Antos b. 1877 Marie Janecek [Antos] b. 1875 Anton Janecek b. 1877 dolores desideri Looking for: Desideri, Innocenti, Lupori, Lenzi, Priban, Preban, Janecek, and Antos. ==== CZECH Mailing List ==== Czech Message Boards are at http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=topics.ethnic --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2ยข/min or less.
Dolores: Have you tried searching the records at possible ports of departure? Joe dolores desideri wrote: > > I have spent countless hours on Ancestry looking for my GGP's > Antos/Janecek immigration ship. I've tried all sorts off wild card > immigration searches. My other set of Bohemian GGP's Germanized their > first names when they boarded a German Bark, so I have considered that > this group did something to their last names that is making it > difficult to find them and have tried names such as Antholz. Do you > have any suggestions for what to try next? >