This summer when I was visiting family, I spent several days at various archives in the CR. One of the things I was hoping to find was ownership information. Items that I found related to my family were located in several different types of records at these archives. I mainly was looking at matriky in the Oblastni Archive. But while at one, I asked about land records. They pulled out a book/catalog that listed what they had for the various towns in the region. I requested two books from differnt time frames just to get an idea of what they were like. I think the reason you would want to have a researcher look at them is that they are not in a nice tabular or scripted format like the matriky. It would take someone who can read the writing of that time to determine the important information, and sometimes the entry goes on for several pages. It would take awhile to search the multiple books necessary to see the bigger picture for that land/family from those entries. In some of the Okresni Archivy, I found census records. The archives made copies for me at no charge. Each house had a separate 'file' of several pages that included all family who normally lived there but may also be off on military duty - and if in military, their regiment and location was noted..... Also listed birth year, family relation, occupation, and if citizen of the town they were residing in - physical residence does not automatically mean they were priveleged to the rights of a citizen of the town. The entries tabulated quantities of various animals. Also in the okresni archiv I visited were books of marriage banns. If unable to find a marraige record, this would be useful to determine family marriages. I also viewed an Ubarz book from one town; the one for my ancestral town did not exist, but that for the nearest largeer- than-others-in-the-area did. The existances of these books is inconsistent for the various towns. They are, however, interesting to look at; the writing was extremely archaic to my eye, although the archivist had little difficult reading it! In general, the information in the these archives is not consistent in record type. In the State Central Archives on Milady Horkova, I as able to view the maps for my towns - indikaci skizzy (I think that is soelling), some books generated about the same time listing land sections ownded by various people along with their house number (for one town the records were about 1841, and 1858). I also looked a some copies of Cadastral books for that town, but since I do not read much Czech and have a difficult time with some of th older script, I do not know what was being recorded. I do know I foumnd my ancestors name on multiple pages, but there were also columns and indicators whose purpose I do not know. So, if you can read old Czech, you could acess the land records if you were to go to the archives, assuming they still exizt for your towns. However, the trick is to know what it is they are recording. The other problem one might encounter is that it takes time to go through the records, so if you are visiting there for only a few days, you might not want to spend all your time in the archives 'czeching' them out. There are records not accessible to the public, but that could be because they have not been catalogued and arranged for easy access. Anettka