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LegacyUser

I am researching many lines of my Czech family. I do pretty well with birth, death, and marriage records but land records are a different story. Is there anyone that can help translate land records such as the attached?

https://www.portafontium.eu/iipimage/30087167/soap-do_20129-vs-tynec_k0078_2640?x=52&y=-48&w=1079&h=420

 

https://www.portafontium.eu/iipimage/30087167/soap-do_20129-vs-tynec_k0078_2870?x=169&y=-15&w=1070&h=417

 

Thanks so much for any guidance you can provide!

 

Cathy

Betseylee Browning

Please is there someone in our community that can give Cathy an idea of what these records contain? Maybe just the basic info, not necessarily a word for word translation?

Betseylee

LegacyUser

You might try contacting Kate Challis at http://czechoutyourancestors.com/about/. She gave the presentation "How to Use Czech Land Records" at the 2019 CGSI conference. She offered to email her presentation on request. That has some information about how to translate land records. She also said that she was working on a book about land records. I don't know the status of that (although I'd be very interested in that, too). She will give a similar presentation on land records at the 2021 CGSI conference. Good luck.

Betseylee Browning

Thanks so much TJafek!

Betseylee

LegacyUser

Thanks, Tim. I sat in on this presentation and and will reach out to Kate. My problem is trying to read the writing, even of the names and towns, in many of these documents. I wish they had typewriters back in the day!