Have you ever seen a family pedigree? Names and dates in elegant
script winding back through time. If you are like most people your
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Genealogy is the study of lines of descent. Family history, includes
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Hi

If anybody has any knowledge of the famliy of Karel\Karla and
Helene\Heleny Pražák who lived in, or near, Senorady, South Moravia
in about 1850/60 - I should very much like to hear from them.

Baz

Hi

If anybody has any knowledge of the famliy of Frantisek and Marianna
ADAM who lived in, or near, Pustimer, South Moravia in about 1860/70
- I should very much like to hear from them.

Baz

Breaking News
My website now has a video done by high school students of the from Tarnobrzeg, Poland on the Jews of Tarnobrzeg. Subtitles, with interviews of Tedeusz Zych and the keeper of the Jewish cemetery. Many sites of the town, beautifully done. This video will be shown in Chicago at the Jewish Genealogy conference.
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Tarnobrzeg/html/2nd%%20level/Video.htm
More News to come, exciting news in a few weeks. Gayle Schlissel Riley

Hello,

Below are links to two birth records written in cyrillic that are from
the Lutheran church in Sakiai, Lithuania.

http://www.comnet.ca/~sjramonat/WFromm.jpg
http://www.comnet.ca/~sjramonat/AKalau.jpg

For the first image, I am concerned with that for "Wilhelm Fromm," who
is the 8th from the top.

For the second, I am concerned with that for "Anna Kalau," who is the
11th from the top.

The columns are as follows:
1. Last Name, First Name of Child
2. First Name of father
3. Maiden name of mother
4. Birth date & place

I really just need to know the name of the mothers for Wilhelm and
Anna.

I know that Wilhelm's father was Friedrich, and it looks like his
mother's first name was Wilhelmina. He was born 01 January 1857 in
Mickai.

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Discovering your Family Tree is becoming one of the fastest growing
hobbies as more and more of us are inspired to trace our Family Trees.
Genealogy, or discovering your family tree, can be a fun and valuable
hobby. You will start to learn where you come from and what your
family history is all about. You may also discover that your family
played a role in historical events and you will certainly discover
what impact historical events had on your family.
The hardest part of getting into genealogy for a lot of people is
getting started. They just don't seem to have direction or an idea of
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actually by getting four things set so that the process is easier.
Make sure you have a plan, keep track of a goal, have wide goals, and
develop a set of methods that suits you best.
The best first step to take in genealogy is to make sure you have some
sort of idea where you want to go. You will have to set a goal so that
no matter what you do online or in the library you are always focused
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Thank you,
Looked at phone books you mentioned. It's far to daunting to even think
approaching anyone after 30 years away from the country.
Hubby Mike (who changed his name here in Australia) does not know where to
start.)
Where could we go to search for the burial sites in Saveno Selo, a village
area outside Novi Sad.
We are driving from Belgrade and have as much time as needed to find his
mums (Sofia Ljubojevic) burial site(1980) ----

Thank you
Jeannette Miles

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