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Back to Bohemia : one family's story / Pat Matuska Sciuchetti.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Brush Prairie, WA : Sedlak Publishing, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First editionDescription: 237 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, genealogical tables, maps, portait ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781737334606
  • 1737334607
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Contents:
Our ancestors and their stories. Our earliest ancestors ; Jetetice ; Life as a Bohemian serf ; Harshly obnoxious brothers ; Family life in precarious times ; Baptism to burial ; Jiri and Matej Matuska ; Kolaches and kidnapped brides ; Lists of village serfs ; Fifty-two years of parenting ; Registers of the dead ; Eating at the same table ; Three Bicanova sisters ; Our ancestors' homes ; The years before emigration ; The first family to leave ; The 1869 census ; Thee teens on a ship to America ; Return to Jetetice ; A big sister comes to America ; A family's disapproval ; A son is sent away ; A son is left behind ; Love in Vienna ; A new start in America ; Homestead on the Nebraska prairie ; West to Wyoming ; The next generation ; The fate of our ancestors' farm ; The Hitler years ; Life behind the Iron Curtain ; A visit to Jetetice ; Before they lived in Bohemia ; The first Matuska --
Finding your connection. Where do you fit in this story? ; The 12 Matuska immigrants ; Josef/Joseph Matuska ; Anna Matuska Velat ; Vaclav/James Matuska III ; Barbora Matuska Matuska ; Josef/Joseph Matuska ; Marie/Mary Matuska Kotrba ; Jan/John Matuska ; Frantisek/Frank Matuska ; Josef/Joseph Matuska ; Frantisek/Frank Matuska ; Vojtech/Albert Matuska ; Karel/Charles Matuska ; Surname list -- The end of this journey. The researcher who made this possible ; There's more to this story ; Our journey together ; Documents.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Join me for a family saga spanning five centuries in the ancient land of Bohemia. It's a tale of love and war. Lords and serfs. Death and disease. Mix in some lust and betrayal. Adventure and sacrifice. Hitler's vengeance and Czechoslovakia's brutal Communist regime. This is the true story of one family-the Matuskas-from the 1600s until today. Those who came to America and those who stayed behind. The story begins in the rolling, forested hills of South Bohemia where castles dot the landscape and two young serfs, Mandalena and Bartolomej, agreed to a marriage in the year 1603. Thousands of people living today can trace their roots back to this young couple who farmed in a small village south of Prague. I'm one of them, but for most of my life, I had no idea. Few of us really know our family history. Few of us realize what an incredible adventure awaits us if we just take the time to do a little digging. This is the story of my family's journey to find our ancestors and our Bohemian past. And the many surprises revealed along the way.

Our ancestors and their stories. Our earliest ancestors ; Jetetice ; Life as a Bohemian serf ; Harshly obnoxious brothers ; Family life in precarious times ; Baptism to burial ; Jiri and Matej Matuska ; Kolaches and kidnapped brides ; Lists of village serfs ; Fifty-two years of parenting ; Registers of the dead ; Eating at the same table ; Three Bicanova sisters ; Our ancestors' homes ; The years before emigration ; The first family to leave ; The 1869 census ; Thee teens on a ship to America ; Return to Jetetice ; A big sister comes to America ; A family's disapproval ; A son is sent away ; A son is left behind ; Love in Vienna ; A new start in America ; Homestead on the Nebraska prairie ; West to Wyoming ; The next generation ; The fate of our ancestors' farm ; The Hitler years ; Life behind the Iron Curtain ; A visit to Jetetice ; Before they lived in Bohemia ; The first Matuska --

Finding your connection. Where do you fit in this story? ; The 12 Matuska immigrants ; Josef/Joseph Matuska ; Anna Matuska Velat ; Vaclav/James Matuska III ; Barbora Matuska Matuska ; Josef/Joseph Matuska ; Marie/Mary Matuska Kotrba ; Jan/John Matuska ; Frantisek/Frank Matuska ; Josef/Joseph Matuska ; Frantisek/Frank Matuska ; Vojtech/Albert Matuska ; Karel/Charles Matuska ; Surname list -- The end of this journey. The researcher who made this possible ; There's more to this story ; Our journey together ; Documents.

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