Hi, for such problems, you always should consider having a look into sources like Orts-Repertorium des Koenigreiches Boehmen (changing correct "Umlaute" to "ungerman" oe), edited on basis of the 1910-census by the Boehmische k.k. Statthalterei in 1913; there you will find three places called Kocin (with "hatschek" on c and correctly í with accent instead of i) plus numbers given for "Umg.-Spr. d." or "b", meaning: "Umgangssprache deutsch" or "boehmisch", i.e. mainly used language, as for the place you look for, on pages 284, 323 and 384 (first and last one also being Ortsgemeinden / municipalities, the second one only Ortsbestandteil, but I'm too tired, always to explain the difference; I wrote a book about that problem in the 80s). But, of course, even allegedly all-czech("boehmisch")-speaking population in 1910 (as in both municipalities named Kocin) doesn't exclude the possibility of later explicit "german" people in that villages, even at exactly that time (I had several ex! amples for several aspects of such problems in some family histories, including later "germanization" of czech names and other problems, which make it nearly impossible, to clearly seperate between "czech" and "german" inhabitants). "Near Pilsen" obviously means the one on p. 284, the municipality in district Kralovice / Kralowitz greetings from Linz Hermann Rafetseder > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 16:46:05 -0800 (PST) > From: Patricia Moos <[email protected]> > Subject: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] (no subject) > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > 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? > ?