The poster is not a subscriber to the mailing list. Elaine ********************* This is a forwarded message From: bgaas@cox-internet.com <bgaas@cox-internet.com> To: rvmlejnek@navix.net Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2004, 10:03:59 PM Subject: CZECH Surname Query Entry ===8<==============Original message text=============== . # output form. OUTPUT_FORM= Bernard Gaas, < bgaas@ cox-internet.com > has sent the following query to the CZECH Mail List: Query= My Ggrandparents, George and Agnes Gas Immigrated through the Port of New Orleans, and then on to Washington co. Texas, in December 27.1873 They were Czech, spoke German also, On their ship passenger list, they say: Nationality= German, country of Origin, Moravia, sometimes Austra. Never village of origin. 24 years later, a Brother of George, andrew, now spelled Gass, shows up through the Port of Galveston, in 1897. Somehow , he slipped up royally, and listed his village of Origin as WILKOWITZE. Also said his nationality was German but only spoke Czech. 1862-1933. Said his country of Origin was Austria, and other places it says Bohemia. This Village of Origin, Wilkowitze apparently is called something else, I wonder if any of you might have anyplace to look to see if this village is still a good name or to what was it changed and in what country it is in. I am thinking that the first of the two brothers may have come from this village also and that would be a good place to start researching this family. Any help would be really appreciated, Sincerely, Bernard Gaas bgaas@cox-internet.com Victoria, Texas . On Tue May 18 20:03:59 2004, the following message was submitted via the mailmerge server running on nobody@freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com (Nobody): NAME: ADDRESS: @208.180.147.186 MESSAGE TEXT: ===8<===========End of original message text===========

Bernard, Apparently there is only one place named WILKOWITZ and this is it's location: WILKOWITZ (VLKOVICE) Czech Republic 76.7 miles W of Prague Unfortunately there are many places that "sound like" WILKOWITZ. The above was located using the tool callled ShtetlSeeker - Town Search. You can find a link to it on the following page under " On-Line Research Tools": http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~elainetmaddox/czgenealogy.htm Another very useful tool is the searchable data base provided by Ing. Felix Gundacker at <http://www.ihff.at/>IHFF. A link is provided at the same as above. Your ancestors were not confused; it is a matter of knowing the place they lived (Moravia), the language they spoke (German) and the country of allegiance (Austria). The above identified WILKOWITZ is not in Moravia, but rather Bohemia. Either "Moravia" is in error or these people came from 2 different places. Ron Mlejnek At 09:17 PM 05/18/2004, you wrote:. >Bernard Gaas, < bgaas@ cox-internet.com > has sent the following query to >the CZECH Mail List: > >Query= My Ggrandparents, George and Agnes Gas Immigrated through the >Port of New Orleans, and then on to Washington co. Texas, in December 27.1873 >They were Czech, spoke German also, On their ship passenger list, they >say: Nationality= German, country of Origin, Moravia, sometimes >Austra. Never village of origin. >24 years later, a Brother of George, andrew, now spelled Gass, shows up >through the Port of Galveston, in 1897. Somehow , he slipped up royally, >and listed his village of Origin as WILKOWITZE. Also said his >nationality was German but only spoke Czech. 1862-1933. Said his country >of Origin was Austria, and other places it says Bohemia. >This Village of Origin, Wilkowitze apparently is called something else, >I wonder if any of you might have anyplace to look to see if this village >is still a good name or to what was it changed and in what country it is >in. I am thinking that the first of the two brothers may have come >from this village also and that would be a good place to >start researching this family. Any help would be really appreciated, >Sincerely, >Bernard Gaas >bgaas@cox-internet.com >Victoria, Texas >.