In a message dated 5/11/2006 9:56:53 PM Mountain Standard Time, windwalk@metrocast.net writes: Vinzenz Dobishek and his wife Anna along with their daughter came from Austria Bohemia around 1870 to Watertown Wisconsin. He died 24 Oct 1905 Whenever a general question like yours is posted you have a better chance of getting a helpful response if you include information about what research you have already done. Did you do the surname search on the home page at familysearch.org? Did you do a surname search on the Internet to find others with that name who may know something? What have you already done to discover his origin? Have you looked at his obituary and the obits of his pallbearers for information about a birthplace? Have you studied a centennial book of his parish for information about groups of immigrants who settled in the same place? Have you looked at the records of soldiers in the Austrian army in the LDS film: Grundbuchblatter Diverse (for the name associated with a birthplace). Have you looked at centennial books about the town where he settled for immigrant group information? Have you looked for naturalization records if any member of the family became a citizen? Karen