Hello, being new on this list, I would like to post my first message with my general areas of interest. I am German, live a little south of Munich, and started to research and document my family a little over 3 years ago. The family of my mother comes from Bohemia (Sudetendeutsch). She was born in a small village called Dobrenz (Dobrenec) close to Maschau, south of Kaaden. Family names and locations I know about right now are listed below, if other subscribers of this list have such names in their family, I'd be pleased to get in touch to exchange data. Best regards, Ralf (Peters) Dobrenz: MÜLLER FIPPL WILD WILLOMITZER HILLER Deutsch Rust: GRÖBL Puschwitz: SPRANGER WEBER Sichlau near Luditz: ENGL Holletitz: GRÜN or GRIMM Scheles: MÜLLER POSSELT Jurau: GRÖBL Dürmaul: DONNER Protiwitz: KAUTZNER

Ralf, Ralf maybe the instructions below on how to access the online Czech Archivs will be useful for you. I have a friend, Max Hoffman living at Berg Am Starnberger See. Is that near your home. Dear friends, I have some great news for those of us whose Bukowinian ancestors originate from the German area of the Bohemian forest in the west of todays czech republic. The first churchbooks from the archive Pilsen (letters A-J) are online available for free under the adress: http://www.actapublica.eu/ First, you have to find out to which parish your villages belonged and what the czech name for this parish village is, you can do this under: http://www.genteam.at/ Just choose the english version by klicking on the british flag. Then you will first have to register for free. Under the heading ,,gazeteer" on the left bar you will then find the village register. Now that you know the czech name of the church villages which intrests you go to www.actapublica.cz, click ,,Registrace nového uživatele/New registration'' and create a new account (under the heading ,,Číslo OP/Doc. No.'' enter any number you like, it doesn't matter") As you then locked in by clicking on ,,Přihlášení do systému'' 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 to find out the accents) under the heading ,,Obec'' and then click ,,Hledat". You should know find the church books available which you can go through after clicking on the magnifying glass. If you have any further questions feel free to write me an email and I will try to help. Many greatings from Germany, Viktor Pordzik -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ralf Peters Sent: April-14-10 3:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] New on this list Hello, being new on this list, I would like to post my first message with my general areas of interest. I am German, live a little south of Munich, and started to research and document my family a little over 3 years ago. The family of my mother comes from Bohemia (Sudetendeutsch). She was born in a small village called Dobrenz (Dobrenec) close to Maschau, south of Kaaden. Family names and locations I know about right now are listed below, if other subscribers of this list have such names in their family, I'd be pleased to get in touch to exchange data. Best regards, Ralf (Peters) Dobrenz: MÜLLER FIPPL WILD WILLOMITZER HILLER Deutsch Rust: GRÖBL Puschwitz: SPRANGER WEBER Sichlau near Luditz: ENGL Holletitz: GRÜN or GRIMM Scheles: MÜLLER POSSELT Jurau: GRÖBL Dürmaul: DONNER Protiwitz: KAUTZNER German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message