Greetings!

Another super meeting! Thank you to all who came and all those who brought treats. Among the yummy treats was a special lamb shaped Easter cake. Soon Easter will be here and all the special traditions of decorated eggs and whipping sticks will appear in the old countries!

Welcome to the new attendees! DIANE FITTON is researching the surname Hron from Bohemia via Wisconsin. DICK HAYEK, whose ancestral surname is Hajek, has just started researching and GARY SPAR who is researching Prague! SANDY BARTELL is researching the name Hasal and came to tell us about a Joint Czech Conference in August put on by CCEC and SUV (Czechoslovakia Society of Arts & Sciences). Sandy bought the Call for Papers handout for this conference. Let me know if you want a copy of this.

EMILY KRNAZ represented the Bellevue Sister City Association as an exchange student to Kladno in the Czech Republic last summer. About twenty plus people learned from her powerpoint presentation about the BSCA Exchange program, Prague, her experiences with the Kladno host family, and then how it was to have the Kladno exchange student here. It was a nice presentation for those in our group who will soon be going to visit Prague and those who have been there. People then had a chance to ask Emily questions. They learned where Kladno is located in relation to Prague. We appreciated Emily and her dad Lee taking the time to come to our meeting.

Thank you to ED SCHLUTZ for facilitating Emily's presentation with his computer and projector. After the special presentation, we looked at some Czech and Slovak websites using Ed's setup.

1) www.kdejsem.cz On this Czech Republic website you can type in the your surnames . Then appears a map showing where these surnames are found and how many in each village is shown in a column on the side. Really cool!

2) http://www.iarelative.com/slovakia.htm/ This is an excellent website for doing Slovak genealogy and culture research. Explore it, take time and learn!! PS, there is a Czech site, too: http://www.iarelative.com/czech/index.html

3) Slovak white pages (telephone directory): http://telefony.zoznab.sk/ Se e if there are any folks with your surname in Slovakia!

4) Czech white pages: www.sezname.1188.cz

5) Find Czech seznam company's email addresses: www.seznam.cz

Remember to put a website in your toolbar so you can translate headings on these pages!!!! This is what I use. http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcm.my.yahoo.com%2Fp%2F1.html&hl=en&langpair=auto|en&tbb=1&ie=UTF-8

Many thanks to JO HERBER for bringing the print out of information about the Czechoslovakian Genealogy Society International on Oct 24 - 26 in Chicago. Great speakers and events including those from the Czech Republic and Slovakia. www.cgsi.org/ Email Paul Makousky ( [email protected]) for a conference packet if you want to go. He will be sending them out at the end of April!!!

MARY KLANDER brought all the back issues of Nase Rodina to give us. This time will not share what each person brought, but we had great turnout and a wonderful meeting.

APRIL 27 WILL BE OUR TRAVEL INFORMATIONAL MEETING! HANA MATOUSKOVA WILL PUT ON A SLIDE SHOW OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC. THOSE WITH TRAVEL TIPS, PLEASE SHARE. THE FIRST PART OF OUR MEETING WILL BE REGULAR SHARING, THE LAST HOUR -PLUS WILL BE OUR TRAVELOGUE!!

Happy Researching,

Rosie

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Researching Los(s), Kure, Kubes, Smetka, Kratina, Pavlica, Jirinec, Hytych, Vasicka, Kopecka, Vojkovska, Uhlika, And Zindulka

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