Be careful, there are two Hamernice, the in question is near Koeniggrätz! Kralovehradecky Kraj <http://www.fallingrain.com/world/EZ/82/index.html> Aida On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Mary Boyd <madb117@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Margaret, > > Hammerdorf/Hamernice is a small village which belonged to the parish at > Himmlisch Rybnai/Nebeská Rybná. The next larger town near these villages is > Rokitnitz/Rokytnice v Orlických horách. They are in ENE Czech Republic near > the border with Poland. The vital records for Hammerdorf are in the archive > at Zámrsk with the records for Himmlisch Rybnai. A quick check showed that > the church registers for Hammerdorf have been scanned and are online. The > link to information about available records at Zámrsk is here: > http://vychodoceskearchivy.cz/zamrsk/matriky/ > > Open or download the inventory of parish registers pdf file on this page. > Then you can search for Hammerdorf within the pdf file. There are links to > the downloadable church registers for each parish. The downloadable > registers are scanned pages of the churchbooks which have been compressed > into large zip files. I would recommend a fast internet connection as the > zip files are sometimes huge (over 500Mb each). > > I don't know why one would ask for information about Hammerdorf/Hamernice > on the Moravian list when this village was obviously in Bohemia (in the > Adlergebirge)? > > Mary > > > >________________________________ > >From: Aida Kraus <draytonharbor@gmail.com> > >To: german-bohemian@rootsweb.com > >Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 5:49 AM > >Subject: Re: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Leder Family > > > >Margaret, this is what is offered for Hamernice Czech Republic records: > >*Hamernice* (5864), environs of Pěčín, Soutok, Orlické hory PLA; And for > >more historical background go to this website: > >http://www.multilingualarchive.com/ma/dewiki/en/%C5%BDamberk > >I suggest that you post your request for the Leder family on the German > >Moravian rootsweb list where you might be better served than on the German > >Bohemian list. > >Aida > > > >On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Aida Kraus <draytonharbor@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> Dear Margaret, Hammersdorf/Hamersdorf has the Czech name of Hamernice > now > >> and is north of Senftenberg, which is called Zumberk in Czech. Click on > >> the link below and see some pictures of the area, where they also give > >> direction to access birth certificates in this area. > >> http://www.picturepastime.com/?c=ez&UF=-544825&UN=-770690&DG=PPL > >> Since I cannot attach any maps here, I am sending you ( to your private > >> Email) two old German detail maps of the area and a Czech map for > present > >> geographical location. I hope that this will help you along. > >> Aida > >> > >> > >> > >> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Margaret Johnson <mjo123@wildblue.net > >wrote: > >> > >>> hello, I am looking for information about the Leder family, German > >>> people who lived in what is now Czechoslovakia before WW2. They were > >>> driven out after the war and relocated to various locations in > Germany. We > >>> were told they lived in "Hammerdorf", but we cannot find Hammerdorf on > any > >>> map. I believe it was somewhere east of Jena. > >>> > >>> Thank you, > >>> > >>> Margaret Johnson > >>> German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site > http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > >>> ------------------------------- > >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >>> GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without > >>> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >>> > >> > >> > >German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > >------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >