Wonderful, Linda, because we now have first hand experience about 3 Czech Archives and I thank you all very much for your input because this brings everything into much better perspective. Perhaps I will live long enough to be able to go through my hometown register on microfilm one day, because as you say, genealogical help is mostly geared to the pedigree line only. But there is much to be said to make the discoveries yourself because it is like a personal handshake from the past. Luckily an entire photographed page of a church register was forwarded to me and the writing is very legible so I was able to abstract more entries than just the one for which the page was photographed. Eureka! But this made me yearn for a microfilm of the entire book. For the last 4 years I have been working with many microfilms from several areas of the Austrian Hungarian Empire, so I have found out rather quickly what is available and what is not. Bohemia is one of the most difficult areas to gather information from and very costly. Unfortunately, the Leipzig issue does not help me personally, but anyone researching the Northernmost mountain regions of Bohemia will hit pay dirt, so if your ancestors were miners or glassblowers, here might be a link! In that we are actually luckier than our Czech Bohemians, because the sparse Leipzig records are from old German records only. Thank you all! Aida ---------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Therkelsen" <lindatherkela@msn.com> To: <GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 6:45 PM Subject: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Archive at Trebon (Wittingau) > The Archive at Trebon (for South Bohemia) allows private individuals to > research there. Some of my distant relatives who live in Austria go > there, but have had to make their appointments farther in advance than > they used to have to do. You need to know the hours of the archive, and > reserve your place ahead of time, there are a limited number of spaces > (and hours). They do not speak Czech either, but of course carry little > charts and books for the names of villages in the 2 languages. I, too, > feel frustrated that I cannot explore so many collateral lines as I would > like, but by reconnecting with my relatives in Europe, have gained so much > beyond what my researchers have obtained. > Linda > > > ==== GERMAN-BOHEMIAN Mailing List ==== > Would you like to see messages that were posted before you joined the > list? To browse the archives, go to: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-L/ >