Dear Carl, My name is Martin Pytr, I am a full-time researcher and I live at northern Moravia. Several times I worked with land records, stored at Zemsky Archiv at Opava, where are stored records from northern Moravia and Czech Silesia. Land records as resources for genealogy was on of my presentations at CGSI conference at Houston, last year (www.cgsi.org) ------ Land registers are stored in the Regional State Archives. Records described mainly the changes of the holders of farmsteads, houses and and another immovables. The records tells not only about the succession of farmstead holders by the time but often also about their material relations and duties to the parents and siblings. New holder had to pay to siblings their parts and also to care about the former holders, who were mostly his parents. In the land registers are also written a lot of interesting facts about the prices of the properties (what were in different numbers and curency, and changed during the times), numbers and kinds of domestic animals and fruit trees hold by the farmstead holder, bout their taxes, debts and heritages, about the drudgery and another obligations of the peasant to the landlords. Land registers sometimes referred also about destroyed and deserted farmsteads as the consequences of wars or natural disasters. Another interesting fact what the land registers refering about, is problem of the escaping peasants. It happened sometimes that the holder left his farmstead and escaped to the another domain. It was mainly for the debts but sometimes also for too high number of obligation in drudgery or for confessional oppression. Land registers are written in Czech and German languages, since the end of the 18th century the records were written in German language also in Czech speaking areas. ------- If you wish I can send you some examples of land records. I am also ready to research in the land registers for you. Martin Pytr Potocni 381 MORKOV 742 72 Czech Republic ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Linert" <carlgenlnrt@yahoo.com> To: <CZECH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 4:25 PM Subject: Land Records in Moravia, CZ Republic > I will post this message again. Hope to get some > responses this time. > > Has anybody on the list ever researched the land > records from the Czech archives, particularly in the > Northern Moravia area? Just curious about > how useful they are in genealogical research. > > Thanks, > Carl > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > ______________________________