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Which records to search
| Looking For | First Search | Other Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Names of ancestors | Family records & family members | Immigration records, census |
| Names of ancestral villages | Family records, family members, obituaries, naturalization papers, baptismal & marriage certificates | State, county or town histories, cemetery tombstones, Bibles, old letters, church birth records of offspring, immigration, passenger lists |
| Location of the ancestral village | County maps & road atlases | Gazetteers, lexicons, Slovenskej Republiky, Shtetl Seeker, Hungarian Village Finder |
| Names of those that came to the U.S. | Family records, family members, & Baca Czech Passenger List books | U.S. census records, original passenger lists on microfilm/on-line |
| Year of arrival to U.S. port, name of ship | Family records, family members, & Baca Czech Passenger List books | Naturalization records (First Papers), U.S. census records, Alien registration/immigration |
| Birth, marriage and death dates for ancestors when they lived in Czech or Slovak lands | Family records, other family members, FHL *, and Czech and Slovak archives | Bohemia – 1651 religious census and 1654 Berni rula property census, hire professional genealogical researcher |
| Information on your ancestral village/town | Gazetteers, Czech & Slovak town books | Write to village/town mayor or historian |
| Military records for service in Austrian Army | Kriegsarchiv (Military Archives) in Vienna, Austria (if age 20 before 1868), Military Archive in Prague (if age 20 after 1868) | |
| People with your name currently living in Czech or Slovak Republics | Czech & Slovak telephone dictionaries | Internet telephone directories for the Czech & Slovak Republics |
| How to contact people in the Czech & Slovak Republics | Obtain names & addresses from the telephone directories, use CGSI form letters to write | Hire professional genealogical researcher, write to Mayor, telephone |
| Military records | Hungary – FHL *, Slovakia – FHL *, & state archives | Hungarian State Archives or Kriegsarchiv (Military Archive) in Vienna |
| People researching your family | CGSI Surname Index |
*FHL stands for the Family History Library and refers to the LDS Church Family History Centers.
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