Martin, I read your translation with great interest. Do records like that exist for other villages or estates? Are they in a place where they can be searched? Where are you located? thanks...Millie

Dear Millie, I dont know exactly where the information what I translated came from. But generally: Estate (Dominium) affairs could be find at of State Regional Archives "Statni Oblastni Archiv": Central Bohemia - Statni Oblastni Archiv Praha (Prague) Northern Bohemia - Statni Oblastni Archiv Litomerice Southern Bohemia - Statni Oblastni Archiv Trebon Western Bohemia - Statni Oblastni Archiv Plzen (Pilsen) Eastern Bohemia - Statni Oblastni Archiv Zamrsk Southern Moravia - Moravsky Zemsky Archiv Brno Northern Moravia and Silesia - Zemsky Archiv Opava There are hold in fond called "Fond velkostatku....." (instead the dots write the name of the dominium (estate). It is necessery to know to which estate (dominium) your town or village was belonged. It means to know ancient administrative divisions of Bohemia and Moravia, what is complicated. Bohemia and Moravia consists from several regions (kraj, pl. kraje). Each region were divided into numbers of estates and dominiums owned by noble families, bishops, King, etc. Maps of Moravian regions you can find here: http://members.tripod.com/~zlimpkk/morava/kraje.html I live at village Morkov, Moravia. You can find it in the maps at region Prerov and in Dominium Novy Jicin. In Fond Velkostatku you can find land records and another interesting information. But situation in various Estates were different. I will show it in the example of situation at Zemsky Archiv Opava. The oldest records of town Lipnik stored there starts in 1488(!) But the oldest records of village Katerinice (Estate of Vsetin) stored there starts in 1819(!) All the best, Martin Pytr, CZ ----- Original Message ----- From: <Mrbkdb112@cs.com> To: <CZECH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 3:32 PM Subject: Re: [CZ] Re: Translation help needed > Martin, I read your translation with great interest. Do records like that > exist for other villages or estates? Are they in a place where they can be > searched? > > Where are you located? > > thanks...Millie >