Former West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin was on @thedailyshow.com and he always mentions his maternal side is Czechoslovak, but they are only Czech and emigrated to the US before 1913 from the Moravian-Silesian Region of the present-day Czech Republic. #Genealogy #Czech

@judgejohnhodgman.bsky.social Chicago hot dog joint Portillo's weighs in on the hot dog/sandwich debate and it looks like a hot dog is not included in their National Sandwich Day free sandwich promotion. I wonder if some will argue for a free hot dog?? #Chicago #Portillos #hotdog

Old newspaper articles related to the recently found Lake Michigan wreck of the iron ore schooner F.J. King. Lighthouse keeper accounts from days after the wreck contradicted accounts from the rescued captain. No lives were lost. #Genealogy #Newspapers -- shipwreckspod.substack.com/p/researcher...

Czech immigrant ancestral village search success story thanks to @reclaimtherecords.org helping get the NYC vital record images published. From all US records, only an 1878 birth record showed the birth locations of the parents. Kuttenberg is the German exonym for Kutna Hora. #Genealogy #Czech

#Czech #Genealogy Charlie Havlat, the son of Czech immigrants that settled in Nebraska, who died 7-MAY-1945 in present day Volary, Okres Prachatice, Czechia, is believed to be the last US armed forces killed during WWII in Europe. www.findagrave.com/memorial/558...

#Czech #Slavic #Genealogy

New search feature: should you want to view all 52 artworks seen onscreen during the @artinstitutechi.bsky.social montage in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, just search "Save Ferris" and we've got you covered. www.artic.edu/collection?t...

20-AUG-1841 baptism of my 2GGF, James Dowling in Suncroft Parish, County Kildare. Bottom left and hard to read. His parents were James Dowling and Ellen Hyland. registers.nli.ie/pages/vtls00... His "abode" in the baptism is listed as Brownstown. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownst... #Genealogy #Irish

Here is the old link on Internet Wayback web.archive.org/web/20241212... #Genealogy

Cleveland, Ohio, USA 🇺🇸 supports Ukraine 🇺🇦.

On Mozart's birthday, wikipedia has an analysis of his 1756 Salzburg baptism register and later name variants. Mozart's baptism name was recorded in Latin as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart%... #Genealogy #Mozart

Mug, c. 1600 Made in #Bohemia #Czech (Art Institute Chicago)

Years researching: 6 Hobbyist: Paternal pedigree research is original with help from FB groups. Discovery : Y-DNA GD6 match with surname Papesch in NZ due to a Papež/Vondráková marriage in 1714. Niche : US immigrants from Chmeľnica, Slovakia. #Genealogy #SixGenerations #Slavic #Czech #Slovak #Rusyn