Dear CZECH Listers, For those of you having problems trying to figure out where you ancestors came from, I would refer you to the web site for this Mail List at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~elainetmaddox/index.htm Generally when I see Immigration Records or US Census Records, it is common for immigrants to put down Austria, Hungary, Austria-Bohemia, Austria-Moravia, Bohemia, Moravia and other places. In many cases, people traveled in groups of 3-6 or more and what one said the others basically said the same thing. Up until the end of WW I, Bohemia (Czechia), Moravia (Morava), and Schleisen (Silesia) and Galicia (Galicja) were part of the Austrian Hapsburg Empire. Slovakia ( which is basically a part of the same region of Slavic speaking peoples) was under the Hungarian Magyar Empire. This was known as the Austrio-Hungarian Empire. After WW I, Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia were combined into the country of Czechoslovakia. At the end of the Velvet Revolution in 1989, Czechoslovakia ceased to exist. The country was once again divided into the Czech Republic (Bohemia and Moravia) and the Slovakia or the Slovak Republic. If your ancestor came before 1918, there was a certain amount of doubt as to where they came from, but IT DEFINITELY WAS NOT CZECHOSLOVAKIA. If they were of the German speaking population, they might say Austria even if it was in Bohemia or Moravia. If they were educated Czechs and knew German and Czech fluently, I would assume they had enough knowledge to give the correct name of their country. Generally they declared Bohemia or Moravia or Silesia or whatever. In the case of one of my great uncles, he was a Moravian working in Slovakia at the time of his immigration and so declared he was a Hungarian. You essentially have to put together all the sources you can to make a final determination. Ron Mlejnek At 08:59 AM 03/31/2004 -0500, you wrote: >I look at bohemia because when my ancestors came over, bohemia was part of >the austrian empire...... > >----- Original Message ----- >From: les spath >To: CZECH-L@rootsweb.com >Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 8:47 AM >Subject: [CZ] Bacca look ups > > >To all of us who have ancesters from Austria as the homeland where do we >turn to find our roots?. >Les > > >==== CZECH Mailing List ==== >No off topic posts, flames, virus warnings, prayers, jokes, >chain letters, etc. Violators will be placed on message monitoring >and/or lose subscription privileges. > > >--- >Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.647 / Virus Database: 414 - Release Date: 3/29/04 > > >==== CZECH Mailing List ==== >Czech Message Boards are at >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=topics.ethnic