Slechta's IN Iowa

I talked with the first Slechta's in Minnesota that I can not link to my Ancestral tree.  This is as of yet anyway.  Virginia Slechta said the her husband has relatives in the Denison, Iowa area.   So if you have relatives that originated from that area let me know, maybe I can help you connect with relatives that can help with tracing your family past.  I contacted her via her grandson enquiring about their family lineage.  I am fairly confident that if all Slechta's trace the family lineage back far enough they will all link together somewhere in the Bohemia area of the Czech Republic.

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Some Slechta's related to Obama

This is some very interesting information about some Slechta's. I want to thank Brain Valco for the information and I am posting what he sent me.  I seems he had some trouble posting and/or contacting me through my blog.  If anyone else has any issue you can find me on facebook.  Please let me know if you have issues I would like to resolve them if I can.
 
 
Hi,

How's it going?

I was reading your blog and trying to reach you there but it wasn't working.

http://slechtahistory.blogspot.com

Turns out one branch is related to Pres. Obama through his mother. Josephine Childress married Ernest Edward Slechta on May 13, 1908 in Deloit, Iowa and their marriage had issue.

Josephine Slechta was a first cousin of Harry E. Armour, a plumber in El Dorado, Kansas as well as Pres. Obama's great-great grandfather.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=34342517
http://iagenweb.org/crawford/marriagenotice4.html
http://virts.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gwgustaf/library/Base/d169.htm#P32967
http://www.geocities.com/momdit2/childress.html
http://www.childers-childress.com/spanningpart3.html


That's sort of neat, right?


Cheers,
Brain

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Census Information

I took a class recently at the Minnesota Historical Society on maps and understanding census information.  This class explained the information that can be found on a census and why I was unable to find some of the censuses.   First on the the missing censuses, it turned out that the missing censuses where destroyed by fire.  After that happened copies of a census where sent to multiple locations to prevent loss of this type again.   Now back to the information on the the census.   What needs to be understood about a census is that there is a census date and an enumeration date.    The census date is the actual date the census is accounting for.  The enumeration date is the date the information was recorded.   Mistakes could be made based on that.  When recording information on the census the census taker needed to clarify that he needed to know who was living in the household on the census date, not the enumeration date.   For example if the census date is June 1 then no matter if someone living on that date died before the enumeration date, they need to be recorded.  That also goes for births, if someone was born after the census date and before the enumeration date they should not be recorded. 
 
What I also found out, that created a surprise for me, is that on the left side of the census they put a number next to the head of the household.  This number indicated when a new household started.   What I found on a census of my great great grandfather when I learned this was a surprise.  My ggreat grandfather and ggreat grandmother had adopted a son before they had any children.  The adopted a son named Charles Mika.   This information helped me match up people in an old photo that my great grandfather was in.  The picture was taken in Ortonville, MN and for the longest time I was trying figure what he would be doing there.  Well it turned out the Charles Mika was a contract plumber in Ortonville and my grandfather learned plumbing in the Ortonville area.  So either he learned from Charles or they both went to learn plumbing together. 
 
I was able to track down Charles Mika's descendants using the census information.  At some point Charles Mika moved his family to Washington and his descendants live there today. 
 
There is a lot more information that can be gleaned from a census and I would advise anyone doing research to take a short course on reading a census.

 

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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 10^th 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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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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Here are a couple more unknown pictures I have. If anyone recognizes them please let me know.

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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.