Hello. I recently received two great reports from the Czech State Archives and have successfully translated a total of about 11 typewritten pages by myself (my understanding of the language is very limited) using three Czech-English dictionaries. But try as hard as I might, I do not feel I have the right translation for the 6 lines below! I don't mean to bother anyone with a word-for-word translation, but if I could just get an idea of what was being said it'd be very much appreciated!! Thank you very much! Dennis Havlena 3305 Tryban Road Cheboygan, Michgigan 49721 (616) 627-2624 [email protected] Here's the puzzling text: Zpusob zapisu prijmeni Havlena neni z genealogickeho hlediska podstatny, do poloviny minuleho stoleti nebyl tvar prijmeni zavazny a proto zcela bezne dochazelo k zapisum ruzynych forem jednoho prijmeni, na priklad v zavislosti n jazyce, kterym byl zapis proveden. Puvodni tvary zapisu prijmeni jsou v genealogickych resersich zachovavany pouze jako doplnujici informace. -- Dennis Havlena - W8MI 3305 Tryban Road,Cheboygan, MI 49721 [email protected] My folk instrument-making webpage http://edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu/~dhavlena/