Go to the mail archives http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl ask for Czech then ask for house number starting in 2001 and working forward. There is very good information about the subject. I will also check my mailbox to see if I kept any of the posts and will forward them in if I have them. However, the archives are a rich source of information like this. Elaine Genealogy: A haystack full of needles. It's the threads I need. Hello James On Saturday, April 17, 2004, you wrote > I would be interested in knowing more about early house > numbering systems I understand that in portions the > 1700's and 1800's the houses in a town were numbered in > the sequence in which they were constructed. House 41 and > house 42 might be in opposite ends of a town. I would > like to know when this numbering system began and when it > ended. Also, when they went to the numbering system we > use now, did they renumber the old houses or were their > numbers somehow grandfathered in? > Thank you > Jim Vleck