Thanks for the information on the website. I had two sets of grandparents who lived on Allport Street from about 1880 to 1902. My Kostohryz grandparents lived on the corner of 21st and Allport St. and my Zitnik grandparents lived right across the street from St. Procopius on Allport St between 16th and 17th Sts. rm62759@alltel.net wrote: > Just recently I found out that my grandmother's Saganek family lived in Chicago near Saint Procopius Catholic Church at 18th and Allport Street. A search for information about the area turned up an interesting site maintained by the Mennonite Church at: > > http://www.geocities.com/jonathanandreas/hist_pilsen.html > > http://www.geocities.com/jonathanandreas/index.html > > http://www.mennonitevs.org/ > > The area became known as "Pilsen" and has a lot of Czech History associated with it. > > ==== CZECH Mailing List ==== > RootsWeb forbids posting of copyrighted material without > permission of the author. Read RootsWeb's Acceptable Use > Policy at http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/aup.html.

I have been privileged to help catalog and organize photos and papers that are literally stuffed into closets and drawers. There are unamed pix of people , seemingly, at shows, plays and concerts at the church. Anyone have any idea what these are about? Supposedly the safe with all the documents of genealogical importance were stolen in the 70's. We hope that it isn't true and will keep looking. Vincent Pisek, the pastor, certainly did a lot of traveling based on his pix. Anyone know about these ventures? judi Clinton, CT

I just thought that those on the list who are interested in Vincent Pisek would be interested in the following information: I found him in the 1910 census living at 339 E. 74th St. There is a notation next to his address which might mean he was living in a basement apartment. In 1910 he was single, age 51. He arrived in US in 1870 and is listed as a clergyman and pastor. Living at that address was the Joseph Stier family with wife, Mary and children Annie, Joseph, Jr., Rudolph and Caroline. Also another woman named Mary Dvorak. Just a little piece of Czech history. Susan