This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Vondrasek, Dubsky, Levy, Aksamit, Cajthaml, Engelthaler, Koss, Swarz Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XEC.2ACE/205.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Robert, When you write Kozlany, which one are you referring to? There are three in the Czech Republic, one of which had a hacek over the 'z'; this one is north of Plzen, west of Praha. When you figure out which one is the one of interest to you, the way to proceed is to access the records for that town. However, the trick is that the records are all in the archives THERE. So you either have to go there and read them yourself, or hire someone to do that; the archives will provide documents for those people you can name and have approximate dates for but they do not do 'research'. To find where the documents are for your town, go to http://www,ihff.at/indexstarte.htm; select gazetteer on the left hand side, then 'listing' in window on right. In new window that appears, put in Kozlany; it will list 3 of that name; if you select one in Bohmen, that is the one where my ancestors are from. THe other two are in Moravia.... Layer is not a name I recognize from Koz~lany.... but I don't know every name from that town, although I know quite a few!