Saturday, March 14, 2009

Slechta in Sadska

I found a website of Martin Šulc who had information about Sadská.  I e-mailed him and was able to gain some interesting information.  He told me that archives in Prague had a lot of information and materials  for Sadska, a very old and once important town dating back to the 10th century.

 

He said all registers of Sadská are kept in the Prague archive, he believes they are from 1670s.  Other materials (land registers, people count, city books etc.) are stored in Lysa nad Labem a town (east of Prague).  

 

He also said that you need to be careful tracing a person's ancestry.  It is best if you find the records in the archives that directly link you (birth, death, marriage records etc..).  He showed me some images from a book that has Slechta names in it.  He said even though they show the same house, they may not be related.

 

He said the book was made by someone centuries later and it is just the list of house owners concerning a particular house.  He said the list is chronological, but one must be careful, as this does not mean, they are related!  He stated the following example.


For example, he said, you have a Slechta in 1780, then you see Slechta here in the list from 1670, but he may not be your ancestor.  Even though it is the same house number, it may only be that someone died and a new incomer came and took the name after the house. Sometimes we have had surprises during our research.  He the Slechta's listed here could be related, I would just need to link them together with records.

 

He also gave me another interesting detail of Sadská.  During 1780s it is believed, W.A.Mozart visited Sadská (probably the spa) and later his children repeatedly went there.



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Friday, February 13, 2009

Slechtova

I found out recently that the feminine form of Slechta is Slechtova.

SLECHTOVA = wife or daughter of SLECHTA

I found some records that had Slechtova on them. I thought is was just another Czech name.







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Monday, December 29, 2008



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Schlechta

I found that Schlechta is also a spelling of the name Šlechta. The Czech spelling of Slechta is Šlechta. The Š has a Sch in the Czech language. From information I have been given, Schlechta is the Latin spelling of the name. So Šlechta, Schlechta and Slechta are the same name and would have the same origin.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Mahoney

I am currently having trouble locating descendants of Barbara Slechta and Dan Mahoney.  They had one son Dean.  Dean had 4 children and the only name I have heard was Nancy.  I am unable to very that name as of now.  After Dean's death, no one I have talked to knows what happened to them.  If anyone knows any information please let me know. 

Thanks



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Friday, October 10, 2008

Šlechta's in the Czech Republic

I have been in contact with some Slechta's in the Czech Republic recently.  They are going to do some checking into the Slechta Genealogy over for me.  Petr Slechta, one that I have been in contact with, mentioned that there is a roots investigation going on within the Czech Republic.   He said that that project was missing the information on the Slechta's that left for the U.S.   I am hoping that what I have and what has been worked on over there will connect.


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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Mary Slechta

As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, I was having trouble finding information about Mary Slechta and a ships manifest I found did not have her name on it with the rest of the family.  I recently came in contact with Trish Schmidt, who is related to Anita June (Taylor) Slechta who married Leo Slechta.  This Leo Slechta is the son of Charles Paul Slechta.  She gave me access to her family tree on Ancestry.com and in doing so I found a census on there with information on Charles Slechta.  Well right below his name was Thomas Slechta and Mary was listed on that census.  So now I at least know that Mary did come with the rest of the family and did not get married before she came to the United States.   Once again making contact with someone new, no matter if related or related to some in common, provides another little piece to the Slechta puzzle.  

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