It's past midnight, but I just got the Internet connnection to work and I can't seem to stop! This is more fun than looking at leases at an abstract company! I just found the 1823 birthdate of Marie Pazourek in the index, who would have been Grandma Bals' grandmother. Now I take her birthdate and look at the birth record itself to find HER parents' names. All of the clues have come off of the immigration papers that Dad has for Anna Novotna and Jan Smejkal.
Wow. Twenty minutes later (it would have taken Dad only a few minutes) I find the actual birth entry. This priest must have been really old or very arthritic - it's almost impossible to decipher the writing. If I didn't know the dates, I wouldn't have been able to even recognize the name. But reading her parents' names is going to be even more difficult. It's good to know we will have Olga when we get there.
(I think the priest made a mistake and put the mother's name in the father column and vice versa. Can't wait to tell my co-workers at Element that I found a mistake in an official document from 1823!)
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