John, The Silar-Lesikar (Schiller, Shiller, Leshikar) families have an annual reunion, usually in Austin County. Descendants of the original Lesikar and Silar still live in the Nelsonville area. As to Konarik, there were a Peter and a Paul Konarik who arrived in Galveston 14 Oct 1900, from the Vsetin area of Moravia (Czech Republic). Records at the Austin County courthouse in Bellville. You should also be able to locate these two families listed in the Handbook of Texas OnLine. You may wish to consider signing up for the TexasCzechs mailing list: http://www.egroups.com/group/texasczechs as you will find some of your kith and kin there. You will also find Koneshecks living in Sealy. One family had/has a plumbing business. Nice folks. Are you in the El Campo area? Sharing. It's What It's All About! Rick Garza http://www.garza-zattler.homepage.com/ NameSearch: GARZA, ZATTLER, REYNA, FOSTER, SCHACHTNER, STOPFER, HOLLMAIER, VOGEL, VOGL, WEINZIERL, FINK . . . and more to come! P.S. pronounced Kohn-Yahr-jhik, hacek over the n & r. On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:45:49 -0800 John Konesheck <johnkathleen@wcnet.net> writes: Posted on: Austin County, Tx Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Austin/523 Surname: Konarik, Konesheck, Koneschik ------------------------- I am looking for descendants of Josef and Emilie Schiller Konarik. This surname is Czech, was originally spelled Koñarík, and pronounced Kone-Yah-Schik. Josef was born in the Industry/Schoenau area of northern Austin County, Texas. His mother was named Anna, and he had three brothers: Johann, William, and Paul. The descendants of Johann and William spell their surname "Konesheck", while the descendants of Paul spell theirs "Koneschik". Emilie Schiller's parents were Vincenz and Anna Schiller (sometimes spelled Silar and Shiller). Josef and Emilie had four children: Anna Alzbeta, who died in infancy; Josef Cenek, born 2-6-1887; Frantiska, born 8-12-1888; and Ida Jindriska, born 2-23-1890. Any information on the descendants of the family of Josef and Emilie Konarik would be greatly appreciated. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.