Records |
Where to find the Records |
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Family Records |
Living family members, former possessions of deceased members; family Bibles, diaries, letters, photos, scrapbooks; local & state historical societies; LDS |
Obituaries |
Local & ethnic newspapers – historical societies, libraries; family records & scrapbooks, membership & fraternal organization publications |
Naturalization records |
Courthouse, usually in the Clerk of Courts Office; state historical societies & affiliates |
U.S. census records |
State historical societies; LDS; public libraries (local area censuses) |
State, county or town histories |
CGSI library, county & state genealogical & historical society libraries, public & university libraries, LDS |
Baptismal & marriage certificates |
Czech & Slovak Archives. CGSI has forms for requesting information from the archives (Information is more important than a certificate) |
County maps & road atlases |
Public & university libraries; CGSI library, purchase from various sources including CGSI, tourism offices, several web resources. historical and contemporary |
Gazetteers |
Public & university libraries, CGSI library; state & county genealogical society libraries |
Leo Baca’s Czech Immigration Passenger Lists |
CGSI library, state & county genealogical society libraries, state historical society libraries, large public libraries. All records available in a searchable database in the Member Home section of this website. |
Original passenger lists on microfilm and other immigration records |
Order from U.S. National Archives (catalog in CGSI library & many public libraries), FamilySearch; state historical society libraries; American Genealogical Lending Library; first and second papers, alien registration, other, Ellis Island on-line, U.S. Dept. Homeland Security |
Czech & Slovak town books |
CGSI Library |
Czech & Slovak State Archives |
Located in the Czech & Slovak Republics. See Using Archives ; professional researches |
Czech & Slovak telephone directories |
CGSI library or Internet at http://phone.fin.cz/ for Czech Republic & http://telefonny.zoznam.sk/ for Slovakia |
1651 religious census & 1654 Berni rula property census |
CGSI library |
Names of professional genealogical researchers for the Czech & Slovak Republics |
CGSI Web Site, CGSI quarterly Nase rodina, & CGSI Executive Committee members |
Surname Index – CGSI members and family members being researched |
CGSI library or can be purchased from CGSI |
Church records |
Slovak – LDS films, Czech – on-line scans & archives |
Foreign population and tax census |
Slovak – Magyar 1869 census |