TIP OF THE WEEK – FREE WEBSITE FOR THOSE WITH

CZECH REPUBLIC (BOHEMIA) ROOTS

Onward To Our Past (http://onwardtoourpast.com/) is a web site hosted by genealogical historian, Scott Phillips, offering free tips, hints, help, and genealogy fun together with unique resources for Bohemia (Czech Republic), Italy, and Cornwall family history and genealogy.

One of the valuable resources available on this site is an English translation of a lengthy genealogy article from the 1878 edition of  Amerikán Národní Kalendář, titled STRUČNÁ STATISTIKA: Osad, míst a okresů ve Spojených Státech Čechy obydlených (Translation: “BRIEF STATISTICS: Of settlements, towns and counties at United States, inhabited by Czechs.”)

This publication is described as “an information census of the Czechs and the communities in which they lived” in the United States in 1878.  The web site is presenting these translations in installments (12 so far), covering Czech communities in Arkansas, California, Connecticut, the Dakota Territory, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts and Michigan.
More installments will be coming to this site in the ensuing months.

BONUS TIP OF THE WEEK –FREE ACCESS TO

“THE GREAT MIGRATION DATABASES”
ON AMERICANANCESTORS.ORG

Thanks to the New England Historical and Genealogical Society (NEHGS), family historians may commemorate Independence Day by searching for their early American ancestors for FREE on AmericanAncestors.org July 1 through July 8.
A total of nine searchable databases comprise the Great Migration project on AmericanAncestors.org.
See http://www.americanancestors.org/specials/fourth-of-july for more details.