Hi, I used the program which I will show below and found your village in the Czech Republic. It is way down on the list that you will bring up. Go to; > http://www1.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/loctown.htm Let me know how you made out. Emil ---- > From: Donna & Gary Howland <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Ziviec, Bohemia, Austria/Where is it? > Date: Sunday, July 26, 1998 12:15 PM > > According to my grandpa SLAMA's naturalization papers, his and grandma's > last place of residence before emigrating in April 1906 was Ziviec. I spent > several hours of a recent visit to the LDS Library in Salt Lake City trying > to determine the location of this town, to no avail. Even with the > assistance of the kind folks at the help desk there, we could come up with > nothing. We tried to consider the possibility that the clerk recorded it > misspelled, used old gazeteers... nothing. > His family was in Obecnice, near Pribram; she came from Velky Petrovice > (now Petrovice), southeast of Praha. > > Can anyone help? > Gary Howland > [email protected] > searching SLAMA, KOZEL in Bohemia late 1800's