Monday, August 30, 2010

Yay! Another possible connection in Austria

The green marker on the map is Elbeteinitz, Bohemia, or (present day) Tynec nad Labem, Czech Republic.  The red circle is the area our folks came from, and "Wien", below to the right, is Vienna, Austria, where our newest connection wrote from yesterday.  Cool, huh?
His name's Gerald, and he left comments on THIS POST . He says his family has roots in Elbeteinitz, east of Prague.  This needs more research!

Oh, Gerald--here are two pages from Bohmen census books from the 1650s...a local professor copied them from books held by a Bergunland library in St Paul, Minnesota...do they make sense to you?

These are copies of handwritten lists, of course, but the name HESCH is there.


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