The CGSI Digital Library is a place where CGSI members can access thousands of books, published genealogies, webinars, finding aids, videos, maps, magazines/articles, and all the previously published issues of the CGSI journal, Naše rodina. 

Family Nibbles is an engaging look at the ancestry of the Teply and other families from the areas of Oldřiš and Borová in Czechia. Volume One covers the timeframe of 1600 through 1865.  Volume Two picks up and takes the family through 1925.  Full of great photos, family stories, maps, supporting historic facts and more.

Year Published: 

2020

Author(s): 

Mark Jarvis

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The CGSI Digital Library is a place where CGSI members can access thousands of books, published genealogies, webinars, finding aids, videos, maps, magazines/articles, and all the previously published issues of the CGSI journal, Naše rodina. 

Recently the following item was added to the Digital Library: 

My Czech Cousins

This 244-page genealogy and family history was completed as recently as 2016 after 17 years of research and centers around the author's paternal grandmother and her ancestors. The first 48 pages are general in nature, but provide a view of the environment that the Cerveny and associated families experienced first-hand. The family genealogies are presented in a standard format and comprise about 80% of this book.

Year Published: 

2016

Author(s): 

Leighton Kaloupek

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The CGSI Digital Library is a place where CGSI members can access thousands of books, published genealogies, webinars, finding aids, videos, maps, magazines/articles, and all the previously published issues of the CGSI journal, Naše rodina. 

Recently the following item was added to the Digital Library: 

Fillipi/Phillipe Family History 1752-2009

This 151-page genealogical work was completed in 2009 and describes the Filipi family, Bohemia (Austrian Empire), ca. 1700’s up to the present, ca. 2009. This book contains geographic history, maps and documents with genealogical information in standard genealogy presentation format including a collection of Family Group Sheets which can be a very important find to those researching this and associated families. There are many newspaper clippings of family weddings, obituaries and general articles. It also contains a section on the family emigration to the United States ca. 1800’s.

Year Published: 

2009

Author(s): 

Jim Phillipe

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The CGSI Digital Library is a place where CGSI members can access thousands of books, published genealogies, webinars, finding aids, videos, maps, magazines/articles, and all the previously published issues of the CGSI journal, Naše rodina. 

Recently the following item was added to the Digital Library: 

Bohemian, Moravian, Slovak, and Jewish Folk Tales

Fancy roses and exotic blooming flowers grow in the pages of some simple and some not so simple children's stories. This presentation reviews a variety of folk tales from the Czech and Slovak lands.

Additional comment can be found in the 2003 CGSI Houston Conference syllabus (PDF 3) below on pages 76-77.

Year Published: 

2003

Presenter: 

Nadia Grosser Nagarajan

Session/Pages: 

2003 CGSI Houston Conference, session F14, pages 76-77

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The CGSI Digital Library is a place where CGSI members can access thousands of books, published genealogies, webinars, finding aids, videos, maps, magazines/articles, and all the previously published issues of the CGSI journal, Naše rodina. 

In addition to this rich members-only content, we also like to find and highlight as many free online sources relevant for our members. You do not need to be a member to access these sources, but we include catalog entries to them in our massive Digital Library.

Recently the following free source was highlighted in our Digital Library: 

A History of Czechs (Bohemians) in Nebraska

Rosicky presents detailed information about the Czech settlements in Nebraska. Information is presented in a variety of formats, but of special interest is a county by county description of the original Czech pioneers entry into the United States.

Published in 1929. 492 pages. Courtesy of HathiTrust.

Year Published: 

1929

Author(s): 

compiled by Rose Rosicky

A History of Czechs (Bohemians) in Nebraska

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The CGSI Digital Library is a place where CGSI members can access thousands of books, published genealogies, webinars, finding aids, videos, maps, magazines/articles, and all the previously published issues of the CGSI journal, Naše rodina. 

Recently the following published genealogy was added to the Digital Library: Biography of John Benischek by Sylvester Benischek

The story of John Benischek starts in 1853 in Dvory nad Luznici, Czechia, and continues to Oxford Township, Joes County, Iowa. This is a short (4 pages) biography, but it is rich in research and might be just what you are looking for!

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The CGSI Digital Library is a place where CGSI members can access thousands of books, published genealogies, webinars, finding aids, videos, maps, magazines/articles, and all the previously published issues of the CGSI journal, Naše rodina. 

Recently the following published genealogy was added to the Digital Library: Family 'Histree' of the Ancestors and Descendants of František and Ján Dvorský by Dr. Richard Long.

The Dvorsky family history begins about 1665 in the area northwest of Prague including Radotín and Stodulký and follows the family to their settling in Johnson Countz, Iowa in the 1860's and to current days.

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