Karel; Thank you for the help. I have found more information in the past few days then we have in 15 years. Found out Udvarkley is actually Udvarhely and that it is a county, not a town. Also am told by another there are two listings of "Bics" in the Budapest telephone dir. Now all I have to do is find the one I can read. Would like an address or something. Sure a lot of helpful people there. Again Thank You John Bics <see below> Karel Kysilka wrote: > > Lately I answered Rose L. Green "rlgreen@students.uiuc.edu" her > question concerning local literature on czech villages. I think this > could be interesting for Slavic Genealogy Discussion Group as well: > > There is relatively lots of homeland books dedicated to regions, > towns, estates and villages in the Czech Republic, either in Czech or > in German languages. Contact the NARODNI KNIHOVNA (National Library in Prague), Klementinum 190, 110 00 PRAHA 1 or try to look at their www page and on-line catalogue at http://www.nkp.cz Thank You. I have the page bookmarked. Problem reading the language in the important text though. John > Another (and very good source) are community chronicles. Any village > in the Czech Republic is obliged to write and keep their chronicles. > It is compulsory since 1920 approximately. But many villages have > their hand-written chronicles even from the second half of 19th > century. Besides, there are school chronicles and parrochial chronicles, in many cases going back to beginning of the 19th century. > All older chronicles are now kept in District Archives, thus in Your > case in District Archives of PRIBRAM. New, still written books are > kept in respective village councils. > > Would You need any further information, contact me > Karel