I am looking for help navigating/using the Litomerice regional archives that are found online.
I am looking for help navigating/using the Litomerice regional archives that are found online. I would love to connect virtually and walk though together searching the archives. Or if there are suggestions of someone I can contact for this type of help, I'd appreciate any suggestions/help.
Fifteen years ago, I corresponded with a lady (if i remember right, lived in Germany) who researched some names for me when she was at the Litomerice archives personally. After an email with the information she found, I was never able to connect with her again. Several years ago I attempted to figure her research out before the archives were on familysearch and the navigation/look on the Litomerice archives page was very different. I would like to start with the birth of Hieronimus Keller (KLG6-X75) in 1840 in Wolfersdorf (Volfartice) Bohemia. I have many documents for Hieronimus' life after he arrived in Scotland as a glass engraver. His parent's names, Anton Keller and Theresia Blumtritt are found on his marriage entry in 1860 in Scotland. His brother Vincent also went to Scotland, his brother John Nepomuk Trieste, Italy. The image below is the email I received years ago with the information.
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Ok, I took a look and didn't find any other kind of presentation for the updated version of the website. So I decided to make my own. It look me a couple days (I hadn't made anything like this before), but I just got it all finished. Hopefully it is helpful! https://bohemiangenealogist.blogspot.com/2021/03/litomerice-archive-website-guide.html
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The Litomerice Archives is one of the two archives that my Bohemian ancestors’s records are from, so I’m very familiar with it. Here are a couple resources to help get familiar with how the archive website works: https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Litom%C4%9B%C5%99ice_Regional_Archives,_Czech_Republic_Church_Records
And this presentation has two parts: the slides and the instructor’s notes for the presentation: http://broadcast.lds.org/elearning/FHD/Community/en/FamilySearch/FHL%20Exports/Sylvie%20Pysnak/Using%20Online%20Czech%20Records%20Litomerice%20Regional%20Archives%20Slides.pdf
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Why don’t you take a look at these resources and see if they can help you get started? And as you run into questions along the way we’d be happy to help as we can. 🙂
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Thanks for all your help Stephanie Bradshaw!
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from Genteam.at which is a free gazetteer but you must register:
Detail View: Gazetteer of Austrian, Czech, Slovak and Slovenian Republic
No.14236
Place Name:Volfartice
Former Place Name:Wolfersdorf
Judicial District:Lipa Ceska
Crown Land:Böhmen
Competent Parish - Roman Catholic:Volfartice1747/1753/1754
Former Parish - Roman Catholic
Horni Police1623/1652/1623
LeitmeritzKerhartice1707/1707/1707
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Here is the christening for Hieronimus Keller (KLG6-X75):
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Thank you! I will definitely take a look at the presentation.
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Thank you! I registered last night, waiting to be approved.
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Oh wow! Thank you! I can't really tell what anything says, thank you so much for saying it's the bottom entry 😊. Makes me want to ignore everything else I have today...
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They usually marry in the bride's parish so try Neudorfel so try to find the marriage of his parents.
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19th century map and current map from Mapy.cz
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Thank you!
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Thank you, I will try looking for that. Do you have a source you recommend for helping figure out what the record says? I can only pick out a few words from the image you posted because I know what it's supposed to say. I wouldn't have even recognized Keller or Hieronimus if I were just scrolling through.
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On the right side of this page are some handwriting lessons. I would take those first.
Record set 8841, Image 42, bottom, Volfartice (Wolfersdorf)
born 16 Dec 1840, christened 16 Dec 1840, House 196, Hieronymus, Catholic, Male, legitimate,
Father: Keller Anton, Glasschneider and Junmann in Wolfersdorf # 196, ___ ___ and deceased Ignaz Keller, Glasschneider in Meisterdorf #90, and deceased Johanna geboren=born Fritsch House 40 ___ ___ Kamnitz legitimate Son
Mother: Theresia daughter of Joseph Blumtritt Hausierer=cottager peasant, from Neudörfel, House 35 and deceased Rosalia born Alber __ __ from there (Neudörfel) Politz legitimate daughter,
Godparents: Johanna aus Adalbert Alber, Jan__? his wiffe from Wolfersdorf, Frz(Franz) Ramert Haüusler=peasant cottager Dape___
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Thank you so much Betseylee!
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The presentation looks like the archive old version. Is there anything I can read that helps with the new format? Thank you.
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Helps for handwrliting.
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This is how you work the search engine. Click the x above the icons and clear them out. Select the family tree. Fill in time range(opional) and the location. It will provide the records available. N=births O=marriages Z= deaths I= indexes. Click on the record you want. This will lead you to a page that tells you more about the record and then click on the image of the book to see the images. Sometimes it will provide page numbers for the different villages.
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You are welcome. Feel free to come back and ask any questions. Good luck!
Betseylee Browning
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Oh you're right -- sorry I was in a rush and didn't look at it more closely. Let me see what I can find.
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Thank you so much! I have a lot of learning to do in order to be able to search for and read the records I am hoping to find.
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You’re welcome!
And don’t get discouraged — you can do it. Fortunately there are a lot of resources online to help learn how to read these records - even without knowing the languages. It takes practice, but it is possible. I started out in the same position a few years ago, not knowing German, Latin, or Czech, and not being able to read the old script. And now I can find these records & I can translate many of them. So it’s definitely possible with practice. Plus you can always ask any questions here on the Communities as you are learning. Good luck!
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This is how you work the search engine. Click the x above the icons and clear them out. Select the family tree. Fill in time range(opional) and the location. It will provide the records available. N=births O=marriages Z= deaths I= indexes. Click on the record you want. This will lead you to a page that tells you more about the record and then click on the image of the book to see the images. Sometimes it will provide page numbers for the different villages. 