Greenbrown wrote: > > All of the Bohemian church records have been centralized during the USSR > era in regional archives. You can now write in English to the appropriate > archive and they can prepare a typed birth certificate and or copy the > original pages out of the church record books. > > Radnice is either in the Trebon or Praha archive. I would start with > Trebon, and they will forward it or write you back if that is wrong. > > Praha > Horska 7 > 128 00 Praha > Czech Republic > > Statni Oblastini ARchiv v Treboni > Okres Jindrichuv Hradec > 379 11 Treboni > Czech Republic > > They will write you with the fees or you can send an international money > order. It was $ 10. Specify whether you want certificate and zerox or > just certificate. You may not even be able to read the zerox because of > the old script and language. > > Tell them the religion if you know it. > > Once you are sure you have the right parish, if you are interested for $ > 60-80 more they may be able to take your lineage back to the early 1800's > or a little earlier. > > Happy hunting. WOW! I was beginning to think I was at a dead-end. Thanks so much for this information! I'm going to send a letter off tomorrow. Thanks again, Liz