In a message dated 97-03-01 22:05:28 EST, you write: << I am aware of a Janda family in Cleveland going back to at least 1910. What US locality did this family reside in? >> I am not sure, but they could be the right ones. I just received an 8 generation family tree for a SVEJKOVSKY family that started in the Cleveland area and moved around from there. One of the SVEJKOVSKYs married a JANDA. I have no dates or places for the JANDA family, just names of the first two generations. I am in the process of trying to connect all the 75 SVEJKOVSKYs in the U.S. to the same family group. So far, I have got several trees going and they all originate in the same area in Bohemia, seem to marrry into the same family surnames, but seemed to have settled in different areas of the midwest. They all seem to have immigrated about the same time period, but alot seem to have settled in areas with the wives families, rather than with their own families, which I find to be normal. The women were more for sticking together than the men. In my husband's family, the nine daughters did not move from the general area where the family immigrated to until after the death of the mother -- then they moved all over the country with their husbands. I remember at one of the first family reunions that I went to, when one of the men of that generation was still alive, he said " you couldn't have moved those girls away from their mother with a stick of dynamite, so we all stayed close no matter what the opportunities, till after she died." In doing the family tree I am finding that it was like a mass exodis shortly after she died, they went every which way depending on the opportunities available to the men, and all the families prospered!! Annie