Friday, July 11, 2014

One hide, half hide - farmers in Czech past

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17 comments:

  1. This is a wonderful article. It seems to answer most of the questions people have about the farm terms, both in the Czech Facebook site as well as Ancestry. The only thing I can think of is when the daughter inherited the land, and was called "bauerirn".

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    1. Well, inheritance would be probably interesting as a full post... Will think about it. :)

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    2. This is the same as in older German texts the difference between a mans name e.g. Mayer and his wife was written Mayerin.

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  2. Blanka, do you have a reference to finding the house numbers on an old Bohemian map. I had a site but have lost the URL. I am researching the Rosshaupt Church records and found house numbers.

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    1. Claudia, do you mean stabile cadaster? http://archivnimapy.cuzk.cz

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    2. Thank you, that was not the one I had but it is a great one for the map; now I can see the villages nearby and I can use it to search more church records. I will go through all my links to see if I can find the one with the house numbers.

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  3. Blanka;
    Many times my ancestors who lived in Dalecin, Uncin-Zbytov, etc. were listed as "Bauer". I know that is a farmer, but what category would that fall in.

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    1. Bauer is just German word for sedlák, farmer. It just tells us your ancestors belonged among those who owned fields larger than one quarter of hide. Additional research would be needed to find out how much land they had.

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  4. Ahoj Blanko, jeho pátek! doufám že máš vélky den!!

    A very interesting posting! Besides Chalupník, Sedlák, and Gruntovník, I have run across some other types of 'Farmers'. When you have time could you please comment on them as well:

    Podruh

    Domkař

    Čeledín

    Rolník

    Zahradník

    Farmář

    Zemědělec

    Dělník

    Venkovan

    Pracovník

    Thank you


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    1. Hi Dan, I have prepared a blog post about these professions, it will be online on Sunday. :) Thanks!

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  5. Hi Ted, thanks for the link - FamilySearch has many useful information and they are also helding genealogical conferences in October here in CZ. And I'm really looking forward to it. :)

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  6. Have you been to the supermarket and got more than you wanted on a product? Well great news is you can get it cheaper at the farmers market agrotis

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  7. Looking for a location of a place named nosislav possibly in moravia. Also church records RC from Prejta and I'll available in Trencin.

    Thanks.

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    1. Nosislav is a market town in Brno-Country District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic.
      http://actapublica.eu/

      Prejta is in Slovakia, and Llava is close by.
      https://www.google.com/maps/place/Prejta,+018+41+Dubnica+nad+V%C3%A1hom-Prejta,+Slovakia/@48.9843591,18.2106636,14.25z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x471499f967571391:0xc377a7888428e00!8m2!3d48.973799!4d18.2112499

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    2. Trenčín is a city in western Slovakia of the central Váh River valley near the Czech border, around 120 km from Bratislava.

      https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&query=%2Bkeywords%3ATren%C4%8D%C3%ADn%20%2Bavailability%3AOnline&page=1&topic0=Birth%2C+Marriage+and+Death

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  8. Lllava is a place! Where can I lok for RC church records.

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    1. https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/758746?availability=Family%20History%20Library

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