More from the Church Record Books

As I mentioned in an earlier post, the script used by the priests in Bohemia was a mixture of German, Czech and Latin. By 1846, when Paul was born, they were using a recognizable form of the childs' name with the rest of the record in German/Suetterlin. That made us pretty confident we had the right birth:


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Second part of the page gives his moms' information:



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Here's a copy of Pauls' death certificate, too--found in the archives at the Minnesota History Museum in St Paul, Minnesota. The state had just begun recording deaths in 1900, so his certificate is rudimentary, but it says his father was John, and that he died because his "Back Broke".