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VILLAGES PROJECT

House numbers and residents of the villages surrounding Suchdol nad Luznici, South Bohemia

Many people contributed data from many sources for the villages project. The intent was to make a "city directory" by gathering house numbers of our ancestors, of their relatives and friends, and including the village name even if the house number was unknown. Diane McClure and I called for data and processed it into this finished product, intending it as a research tool for the many genealogists of lineage from this part of the Czech Republic. Results of the ‘03 version were sent to Wregie Memorial Library in Oxford Jct. IA and to participants. The January ‘05 version with 313 additions will not be printed except for the villages (offices) represented in the project. I will e-mail the d.base to requesters, sorted by any field they want. It’s in Works 6.0 data base (wdb file). Additional data is welcomed if submitted in the same format as the data base.

To open the data base, click on Villages Project. Additional surnames tied to villages information can be found in the candies HABENICHT, SODBUSTERS, and KORANDA.

To understand the data base, read these explanations:
Beginning with the left side of the page, the
1st column is the line number which you may refer to in discussing an entry with someone.
2nd column is the contact person’s I.D. number. See 3rd column.
3rd column is the contact person (genealogist)’s name. Their e-mail addresses and/or street addresses are in the data base Suchdol Area Genealogists in the candy FELLOW TRACERS on this website. You must take the contact person’s name to that data base as the contact number does not appear in Suchdol Area Genealogists. Missing from the latter is J.D.Sander who can be reached at jeromesander@myfamily.com
4th column is the name of the village, and the data base is sorted by this. All villages are in their Czech names. See the candy PLACE NAMES for conversions to/from the German names. Towns that end in "nad Luz." are on the Luznici river. Vesky is now part of Jilovice. The candy MAPS contains maps of the Suchdol area with all these villages.
5th column is the house number, if known. To generalize, house numbering began there in ca. 1770 per one source (although we have seen earlier records with house numbers for this area), and most houses retain the original number. The numbers following "Majdalena, near" were indicated in the Czech records as having been standing alone, not in the village proper.
6th column, the resident’s name is the male head of household in most cases. Surnames were required after 1740, but probably not all established until several years later. We used Czech spellings without diacritical marks, as in Simanek which became Shimanek in America. Some American spellings are given in parenthesis. Alternate spellings found in the Cz. records are stated after a slash (/). Given names were changed to Czech spellings, as Elizabeth = Alzbeta, Catherine = Katerina, Paul = Pavel, Mathias = Matej, etc. The candy PERSONAL NAMES will give you conversions. We substituted "aka" (also known as) for "vulgo" which is explained by the candy VULGO NAMES.
7th column, the resident’s spouse, using maiden name if a wife, in Czech.
8th column is the year of event for the resident, using these abbreviations:

9th column is the record source, if known, using this key:

Please remember that you must verify data that you take from a secondary source like this. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information although we believe it to be true and correct.

J.Nelson, January 2005
JudyNelson@tampabay.rr.com