Czech Genealogy Toolkit

Web Sites

• Ancestry.com Message Boards
  
• Carpatho-Rusyn Knowledge Base
• Cyndi’s List—Czech Republic & Slovakia
  
• Czech GenWeb
  
• Czech Multi Dictionary
  
• Czech Republic Mailing Lists
  
• Czech Telephone Directory
  
• English-Czech Dictionary
  Lets you search with or without diacritic marks and for close matches.
• Genealogy Unlimited
• GenForum: Czech Message Boards
  
• Immigrants to Canada
  
• Information on Genealogical Research in the Czech Republic
  How to request archives research.
• It’s All Relative Genealogy
• JewishGen
  
• Letter-Writing Guide: Czech and Slovak
  This PDF document from the Family History Library provides instructions to write to the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and includes a form you can fill out and send.
• Radix
  
• RootsWeb’s Guide to Tracing Family Trees: Czechs and Slovaks

Resources

• The Czech Americans by Stephanie Saxon-Ford (Chelsea House)
• Czech-English/English-Czech Concise Dictionary by Nina Trnka (Hippocrene Books)
• Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, 9 volumes, by Leo Baca (Old Homestead Publishing Co.)
• Genealogical Research for Czech and Slovak Americans by Olga K. Miller (Gale)
• Granny: Scenes from Country Life by Bozena Nemcová (Greenwood Publishing)
• Handbook of Czechoslovak Genealogical Research by Daniel M. Schlyter (Genun Publishers)
• Handy Czech-English Genealogical Dictionary compiled by Jan Parez (Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International)
• Historical Atlas of Central Europe, revised edition, by Paul Robert Magocsi (University of Toronto Press)
• History of Czechs in America by Jan Habenicht (Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International)
• A History of the Habsburg Empire 1790-1918 by Jean Bérenger, translated by C. A. Simpson (Addison Wesley Longman)
• Where Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust, revised edition, by Gary Mokotoff and Sallyann Amdur Sack with Alexander Sharon (Avotaynu)

Organizations

• Archives of the Czechs and Slovaks Abroad
  University of Chicago Library
  1100 E. 57th St.
  Chicago, IL 60637
  (773) 702-8456
  Its collection includes brochures, periodicals, anniversary publications, almanacs and personal papers of Czechs and Slovaks who have lived outside their homeland. You can view an outline of the materials at the archives’ site.

• Carpatho-Rusyn Society
  125 Westland Drive
  Pittsburgh, PA 1521
  (412) 462-2769

• Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International
  Box 16225
  St. Paul, MN 55116
  (763) 595-7799
  Publishes Nase Rodina (Our Family) and Rocenka.

• Czech Republic State Archives
  Archivní Správa
  Ministerstva vnitra CR
  Milady Horakove 133
  166 21 Praha 6, Czech Republic
  +420 (2) 321173

• East European Genealogical Society
  Box 2536
  Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 4A7
  Canada
  (204) 989-3292

• Embassy of the Czech Republic
  3900 Spring of Freedom St. NW
  Washington, DC 20008
  (202) 274-9100

• Federation of East European Family History Societies
  Box 510898
  Salt Lake City, UT 84151

• Immigration History Research Center
  University of Minnesota
  College of Liberal Arts
  311 Andersen Library
  222 21st Ave. S.
  Minneapolis, MN 55455
  (612) 625-4800

• Moravian Heritage Society
  14055 FM 2920 #381
  Tomball, TX 77377
  (832) 934-2772

• National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library
  30 16th Ave. SW
  Cedar Rapids, IA 52404
  (319) 362-8500

• State Central Archives in Prague (Národní Archiv v Praze)
  Archivní 4 149 01 Praha 4

Chodovec, Czech Republic
+420 974 811 111