Pozdravy!

Certainly was an informative meeting! The sharing/discussion was awesome plus each one of us had a great time!!

Anyone interested in attending the CGSI symposium in St Paul MN let me know. Others are interested and would like to contact other attendees.

Many thanks to Helen Lowe, Glen Crellin, Ruze Gresser, Bettelinn Brown and Marilyn Beale for bringing treats!! Hope I have that right!

Announcements:

Next meetings: September 13, 9:30 to Noon. November 15, which is our Thanksgiving potluck, Noon to 4 PM.

Folks enjoyed the Slovak powerpoint I sent in the last email. If you havent viewed it yet, it is the second item. Here is the website for german script use I shared: http://www.altdeutsche-schrift.de/adsschreiben.php

The Czech Collectors Association (www.czechcollectors.com) will have their 2015 convention in Cedar Rapids, touring the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, June 11 - 14.

CGSI has its Conference Oct. 21 - 24 in Cedar Rapids, IA. Seriously consider going!!

Anyones ancestral village Telnice? I just bought the 750 year anniversary book on eBay. Dont know if it is the Telnice near Brno or Usti Nad Labem.

RUZE GRESSER, a fellow Moravian attendee, is busy learning the Czech language, she will be going to spend the summer in her Moravian village. What an opportunity!! Ruze brought up the topic of watching Who Do You Think You Are? on TV. It airs on Comcast TLC 38 (not 59).

HELEN LOWE reported on the Crazy Accordion Trio from the Czech Republic who took part in the June Leavenworth Accordion Festival. They won awards. Two of our attendees, Dick Volin and Tom Sernka provided transportation and lodging for these young college students. Helen also had her 3rd cousin form the Czech Republic visit in June, what busy month for her! Cousin Marcelka wants Helen to visit her family in 2015.

Helen just saw the movie the Immigrants at the Crest theater in Shoreline. It is not necessarily about Czechs or Slovaks, but shares the situation our ancestors lived when they arrived in the states.

CAROL STEINHAUER is working oh her Slovak family story. She is interested in the Slovak name day calendar ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_days_in_Slovakia) and Slovak naming patterns. She just read Boys in the Boat noting the influence of Hitler at that time. Carol brought the last issue of Helene Cincebeauxs Slovakia quarterly to share. Carol loaned me Border Crossings by Charles Novacek. It is an excellent read about a young man of Czech & Slovak decent. So I brought her books from my library for reading.

MARILYN BEALE just finished Johnny Palkas book My Slovakia. It hit home with the family stories in her background. Great for history buffs she states!! Marilyns daughter is marrying a Slovak with the last name Plutko. This fellows father wrote a wonderful book about the Plutko family from Krasnovce in Slovakia which she shared with us. It is really a gem!!!

BETTELINN BROWN is interested in finding the kroj (folk costume) for her area near Plzen. This is for her family history books she is writing. Next time I will bring my map with kroje for Bohemia and Marilyn Beale will bring hers of Slovakian kroj! Bettelinn also wants to know how to put wording under pictures in the relationship chart she is making……with pictures in each place of course!

GLENN CRELLIN was brimming from ear to ear. He shared his wonderful trip to the Czech Republic actually meeting relatives in two of his ancestral villages. The families Glenn met were Adamec in Zderaz and Silhanek in Prednice. Glenn's primary lines are Vavra. Silhanek, Caslavka and Parizek and others including Adamec and Kriz as I track back. He is third generation American. A researcher, who no longer does researching, spent two days with Glenn and his wife in his ancestral towns. Out of the 6 days he and his wife spent in the CR, those two days were the most exciting. Glenn shared pictures of his adventure. Another time, Glenn, being from Iowa originally, had a chance to visit the new National Czech & Slovak Musuem & Library in Cedar Rapids, IA. He really enjoyed the exhibit with the kroje (costumes) but was disappointed that there was nothing about the original Czechs who came over from 1860s to about 1910.

MARTHA SOLTESZ told about her experience taking a National Archives Brickwall class here in Seattle. The instructor denied that names were changed at Ellis Island. Correct spelling was on ship manifests, not all readable! Along the line names were changed, tho!! There was quite a discussion about that. In Martha’s neighborhood one home has red bricks that have have names on them. Speaking of the book Boys in the Boat, she found out that those bricks were from the original boathouse at UW. So she researched the name on a brick she got from that home, but could not connect it to the original crew from the book.

HARV and JOAN KNIZEK used the same researcher Glenn used. They found Harvs ancestral because he knew the military unit of his ancestor. That is a long story but a great tool!!! Once they had the ancestral village, the researcher did great research for them, taking them to the town. Anyway, they visited the CR twice! Harvs mother was born in Bukovina, which is now Ukraine. Each month Joan would check Ancestry for her arrival records. Recently it appeared!! The moral of the story is keep trying!! Also his roots are from Lewis County, WA. On visiting the ancestral farm, the present owner found patented shoe covering molds in the field. It had the name Knezik on it. So the molds were donated to the Lewis County Historical Society!! You never know what you will dig up!

Speaking of Ukraine, there was quite a discussion about Russias annexation of Ukraine lands. Many Eastern European countries feel Putin is going to take back all the ex-communists lands.

COLLIE LISKA has been enjoying retirement by doing a lot of traveling. Last fall he attended the Slovak Festival at the University of Pittsburg. He visited with Helene Cincebeaux there. Ancestral culture is alive on the east coast and the Midwest. Collie cannot find his paternal grandmother coming to the US. We suggested Steve Morse’ sites: http://www.stevemorse.org/ And like Joan said keep trying other sites every month!!!!!!

Happy Researching,

Rosie Bodien

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

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