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| Names of ancestors |
- Family records
- Family members
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- Immigration records
- US Census
- Canada Census
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| Names of ancestral villages |
- Family records
- Family members
- Obituaries
- Naturalization papers
- Baptismal and marriage certificates
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- State, county or town histories
- Cemetery tombstones
- Family Bibles
- Old letters
- Church birth records of offspring
- Immigration records
- Passenger lists
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| Location of ancestral villages |
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- Gazetteers
- Lexicons
- Slovenskej Republiky
- Shtetl Seeker
- Hungarian Village Finder
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| Names of those that came to the United States |
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- US Census
- Original passenger lists online
- Commercial subscription websites (e.g. Ancestry, MyHeritage)
- FamilySearch
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| Year of arrival at US port / name of passenger ship |
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- Naturalization records (First Papers)
- US Census
- Alien registration / immigration records
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| Birth, marriage, and death dates for ancestors when they lived in Czech lands or Slovakia |
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- Bohemia – 1651 Soupis (religious census), 1654 Berni rula (property census), 1793 Soupis
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- Commercial subscription websites (e.g. Ancestry, MyHeritage)
- FamilySearch
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| Information on your ancestral village |
- Gazetteers
- Czech & Slovak town books
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- Village websites
- Wikipedia (US and Czech)
- Write to village / town mayor or historian
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| Military records for service in Austrian Army |
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- Hire professional genealogical researcher
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| People with your family name currently living in Czech Republic and Slovakia |
- Czech & Slovak telephone dictionaries
- kdejsme.cz website search
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- Internet telephone directories for Czech Republic and Slovakia
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| How to contact people in the Czech Republic and Slovakia |
- Obtain names & addresses from telephone directories
- Use CGSI form letters to write
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- Hire professional genealogical researcher
- Write to village / town mayor
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| Military records |
- Hungary – Family History Center
- Slovakia – Family History Center
- State archives
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- Hungarian State Archives
- Kriegsarchiv (Military Archives) in Vienna
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| Other people researching your family name |
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