Ok Sudetenland is too late. The period I was looking at, 1881, the location has to be Dudin, There IS a Dudin located southeast of Prague. So that's IT! :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mari" <ddmmjm@netins.net> To: <wigrant@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 8:21 PM Subject: Re: [WIGRANT] MY DVORAKS FOUND > Congratulations, John! > As for "Sudetenland", I found the following: > > "Sudetenland (German; Sudety in Czech and Polish) was the name used > in the first half of the 20th century for the regions inhabited > mostly by Germans in the border areas of Bohemia, Moravia, and those > parts of Silesia associated with Bohemia." > > Also: > "The Sudetenland is a historical region comprising areas of the > Czechoslovakian provinces of Bohemia and Moravia, in the vicinity of > the Sudeten Mountains. > > Although the majority of inhabitants in the area were German > speaking, in 1919 at the conclusion of World War One, the Treaty of > St. Germain incorporated the area into the Czechoslovak Republic. In > subsequent years control over the territory became a point of bitter > contention between Germany and Czechoslovakia." > > Map of Area of concern: > http://www.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/book/Chlup/chlupgif/czechmap2.html > > Mari > > At 11:25 AM 5/1/2007,john.dvorak@sbcglobal.net wrote: >>I have a problem with reading the manifest, now. I dont know why, but now >>all of a sudden, the manifest looks like it says "Sudetenland" as for >>where >>the great grandparents came from, not Dudin, like I thought. Now I'm >>REALLY >>confused, but at least I narrowed it down to two places! HA HA, before >>this, >>I had NO idea where they came from! >>Are you good at deciphering handwriting? Maybe you can help me read this >>thing! >>John in Michigan > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WIGRANT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message