There is a website under construction that is aimed at making contact between Czech citizens and their local officials. However it is usuful for helping genealogists locate places withing the CR as long as the present http://mesta.obce.cz/summary_english.asp This English page (linked from a home page in Czech) links to a search page for places withing the CR now. The listings probably do not include places that were abandonned or destroyed after 1945. Click on: extended search on the search page, select an OKRES by scrolling through the options and then click on Vyhledej button On the next page there is a list of places included in that Okres. Scroll to the Czech place name you want, click on it and click on the black button. A page with a small map showing the general location of the place appears. Optional search is to leave the Okre name as it appears when the search page first comes up. I believe that option says "all Okres" or "any Okres". Type the place name in Czech in the space above the Okres space. Click on the grey search buttong. A page comes up with the map locating the place. The title data gives you the correct Okres and Kraj in CR. If you enter a place name that occurs two or more times in CR you will get a list of possibilities. If you click on one at a time the map appears showing the approximate location of each. One place name that is used 8 times is Benesov Do a test with that Place name to understand how this works. Karen

http://www.luzicke-hory.cz/galerie/index.php?pg=hparege Here is a link for postcards and pictures of the Lusatian Mountains. Jiří Kühn has created this great website for this region. Rod Fleck Forks, WA -----Original Message----- From: KarenHob@aol.com [mailto:KarenHob@aol.com] Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 10:48 AM To: GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] CZ place search URL There is a website under construction that is aimed at making contact between Czech citizens and their local officials. However it is usuful for helping genealogists locate places withing the CR as long as the present http://mesta.obce.cz/summary_english.asp This English page (linked from a home page in Czech) links to a search page for places withing the CR now. The listings probably do not include places that were abandonned or destroyed after 1945. Click on: extended search on the search page, select an OKRES by scrolling through the options and then click on Vyhledej button On the next page there is a list of places included in that Okres. Scroll to the Czech place name you want, click on it and click on the black button. A page with a small map showing the general location of the place appears. Optional search is to leave the Okre name as it appears when the search page first comes up. I believe that option says "all Okres" or "any Okres". Type the place name in Czech in the space above the Okres space. Click on the grey search buttong. A page comes up with the map locating the place. The title data gives you the correct Okres and Kraj in CR. If you enter a place name that occurs two or more times in CR you will get a list of possibilities. If you click on one at a time the map appears showing the approximate location of each. One place name that is used 8 times is Benesov Do a test with that Place name to understand how this works. Karen ==== GERMAN-BOHEMIAN Mailing List ==== Forgotten how to UNSUBSCRIBE? Visit http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/mailinglist/mailinglist.html