Carol - I feel fairly confident my Radkovice parnish is Mecin. According to http://www.ihff.at/indexstarte.htm the parnish Cestice would be in the Bohemian Archives at Trebon. The English version of http://mapy.atlas.ca is http://mapy.atlas.cz/aquariusnet/frm_uvod.asp?S_LANG=EN Just click on the English flag. Lynn > From:"Carol Rogers" <homealot@earthlink.net> > Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:51:10 -0500 > > Thanks, Lynn! > > I tried it again, using the column on the right to pick "Ceska replublica" > as I could not see where English was offered. Then I typed in Radkovice (as > nothing shows up for Ratkovic, which was the exact spelling on those two > records) and got three choices. I picked the one for Strakonice, since my > two records said: > >>Ratkovic next Volyne >>Ratkovic, by Strakonic > > Then found what I believe to be the correct village, which is very close to > Volyne. I'm thinking that the town between Volyne and Radkovice might not > have been around back in the mid 1800's - so I feel good about this find. >>From all the German research I've done on the paternal side of my family, > I've learned to watch for phonetic spelling, while at the same time being > precise about the spelling of towns. So my feeling is that "t" phonetically > is very similar to "d", and the "e" is basically "silent", so a priest > writing a marriage record with Czech. information in St.Louis might very > easilly have gotten "Ratkovic" from "Radkovice". > > But I don't think your Radkovice is the same as mine, is it? > -- Visit my genealogy website: http://webs.lanset.com/lingbro Key surnames: BOCHNICEK, BROD, BROZ, DVORAK, GRAHAM, HRASKY, ONTL, PETRAN, PAZDERA, SMRCKA, STEUERNAGEL, TOUPAL, VANICEK, VOKRACKA and more, most from Missouri, Illinois and New York areas. "ALL INCOMING AND OUTGOING E-MAIL IS SCANNED WITH NORTON ANTI-VIRUS, updated daily"