Do you know anything about your ancestors? Have you ever been interested in getting to know something more about them? As I am curious person with a quite good detective abilities, I got totally excited when I came to know that our registers in the archives are online on the Internet. Ehm… What does it mean?
The thing is that the books where are written the dates of births, parent's name of newbie, their occupation, name of their parents, date of wedding, date of death etc. - this all you can check out on the Internet and if you are pretty good – you can even get like this into the 17th century. To be more specific when I was searching for my ancestors I got into year 1734 and I think it is pretty cool, right? Anyway, do belive me it wasn't so easy as it looks like (ehmmm and that's why I wasn't here lately too active as I fell in love with this hobby :D)…
If you follow your own logic, you don't need to hire any specialist (genealogist – don't mix with gynecologist :D). I just asked my grandmother about some important facts from our history, about some birth certificates etc. and tadaaaaaaaaaaaam… I started my investigation… However, yeah again there is however! You know in the past in my country was used the German langueage and of course it was also used in these kind of books. Luckily, I know little bit German but to read this old German handwriting (called Kurent - btw they have even various types of this Kurent) was the first obsticle… I felt like it would be better if it was written in Chinese or Japanese (haha nothing against guys from these countries :D)… Just have a look and you will undertand, what I am talking here about…
Anyway, luckily I found a forrum, where some nice people were able to translate the text for me and now… I somehow learned to read it – I won't say for 100% but for 80% I am really able to decode it.. in fact I got you used to it :-) What I find really interesting is that there are written also occupations, where they lived (btw numbers of houses are here still the same from 17th century), how they died and many many other interesting things. It is funny to see that in my genes are ancestor's genes who lived in totally different parts of this country. Unfortunately, so far none of them was somebody rich, wealthy etc. :D poor me, yeah I know...
To be honest, I spent many hours on this awesome hobby and I can say I am successful but want to find more and more, even though it is harder and harder as you get deeper and deeper in these old books…
Comments
And here we can see why Luci is crazy, hahaha...
I find very impressive all this research of yours; you could work for the CIA! XD
I wonder how far you're gonna go with it and what other things you can find... because with that info you might also do researches of the 'six degrees of separation' with some celebrities... or with some EC members! :D
why would it make me tired? It is very interesting and to read letters written by your ancestors woow this is amazing!!! I think people should gather such documents for the next generations like you do in your family... guess my ancestoes were illitterate hahaaa no I am kidding..some of them were respected taylors or cabinet-makers as they were called mistr - guess master in English - sb who is on the top of this profession...
As for religion, here people were mostly catholics and hahaa my grand grandmother was cool as she left church at the age of 20 in 20's .. I looked it up and found out many people did it ...as being religious was sth old-fashioned related to the Habsburk monarchy people disliked and suddenly they were a part of the Czech republic, which was established in 1918, so they wanted to be modern and independent...
Btw...I would notice if you weren't around... so don't pretend to be soooo modest! :D
My granny also little bit tried to spoil me - thats what grannies are for, nah? Btw I am of course curious to read more... who fought in war? My ancestors were mostly poor cowards :D hahaaa omg now their ghosts will scare me at nights :D
hahaaa so here we gooo!!! You were worried about me? :o good joke :D I am flattered and your comment confirmed what I thought - Americans are into genealogy, family trees etc. How come I know it? Haha... cousin of my great grandmother went to the USA duting economical crisis guess in 30's and settled down there...his name was Frank Losak and as many of his siblings went there too...there is now in Wacoo city a street called Losak Street :D Son of Frank contacted my grandpa as he was collecting info about us in the Czech republic and was into genealogy but grr I have never met him.. maybe I can contact his family and spend my next holiday in Texas :D
Thank you for sharing sth about your roots, it was very interesting to read and ehmmm... that one sentence in your test about French mother - you meant yourself speaking fluently French as if you have lived the whole life in France? :D
hahaa...what a phlegmatic attitude :D don't bother yourself plz :p at least you bothered to read my blog :o
I only know that my ancestors were Hindus, because I know only up to my grandfather was a Muslim and he was in Mughal Army.