I have unsuccessfully tried to locate in the on-line records from the Pilsen Archives the records for the villages in Kreis Bischofteinitz, Mies, and Tachau with the Czech names beginning with the letters A - D. Can I assume that they are not available as yet? Bob Paulson On Jan 14, 2010, at 8:27 AM, Laurence Krupnak wrote: > Viktor Pordzik from Germany provided: > > Dear friends, > > > > > The churchbooks from the archive Pilsen (letters A-D) are online > available for free under the adress: > > http://www.actapublica.cz > > First, you have to find out to which church your villages belonged and > what the > Czech name for these church villages is. > > You can do this under: > > http://www.ihff.at > > > Just choose ""English Pages" > > > Under the heading "gazeteers and picture cards" you have to click > continue and > will then be guided to a village register. > > > > > > Now that you know the Czech name of the church villages which interest > you go to > > http://www.actapublica.cz , > > click "Registrace nov? u?ivatele/New registration'' and create a new > account (under > the heading ,,Č?o OP/Doc. No.'' Enter any number you like, it > doesn't > matter. > > > As you then locked in by clicking on ,,Přihl?n?o syst?'' you > choose > the archiv in Plzen, click ,,Zobrazit" and enter the name of your > church > village > (make sure you have the correct spelling which might not be found > on the > IHFF > page but by using google or wikipedia afterwards) under the heading > ,,Obec'' and > then click ,,Hledat". > > You should now find the church books available which you can go > through > after > clicking on the magnifying glass. > > The quality is amazing! > > > > Many greatings from Germany, > > Viktor Pordzik > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/ > ~gbhs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMAN- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message