Hi, I am new to the list.  My great grandparents were from the Kocin area west of Pilsen, and they came to Baltimore in the 1880's.  They spoke German as their first language, but they also spoke Czech.   However, after reading archived posts of this list and after looking at maps of the Sudetenland, Egerland, etc., it looks as though Kocin was not within the German-Bohemian part of the Austria-Hungary.  Can anyone explain this?   Thanks,   Pat

First of all, ALL of Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia was Austria Hungary, as was Hungary, part of Poland (Galicia), Transylvania and Banat in Romania, Slowenia, Croatia, Slavonia Yugoslavia, Tyrol in Italy and part of the Ukraine. I will send to you two little maps to your email address, which explains how the old Monarchy was chopped up after WW1. In 1880 when your ancestors arrived here in America, the Monarchy was still intact and one large country - all citizens being Austrian Hungarians regardless of their ethnicity. Under the Monarchy we see a United Europe just as they are now reestablishing - only larger under a Democracy. The split of the Monarchy after WW 1 made Europe fall apart and because people could not live with the splitting up of their ethnic homelands, it became the cause of WW2. You have to go to www.mapy.cz, search for Kocin and when you have the Czech map, look for the word "dalsi" click there and then click on the word "historicka" and the old Austrian map will come up. Look if Kocin has a German name. If it does, it was a German settlement, if it does not, it was a Czech settlement. Aida On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Patricia Moos <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I am new to the list. My great grandparents were from the Kocin area west > of Pilsen, and they came to Baltimore in the 1880's. They spoke German > as their first language, but they also spoke Czech. > > However, after reading archived posts of this list and after looking at > maps of the Sudetenland, Egerland, etc., it looks as though Kocin was not > within the German-Bohemian part of the Austria-Hungary. Can anyone explain > this? > > Thanks, > > Pat > > > > 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 >