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Boehmerwald Air Balloon Ride!
A Boehmerwald Air Balloon Ride….with a little German background music. Please click on the link below to view a PowerPoint presentation of Bohemia. Make sure you have your speakers turned on when you play it. I am not the author, full credit goes to the author of the presentation! It is posted here only for convenience. […]
Wenzl & Anna Maria (Kostner) Prokosch
There has been yet another photo discovery at the Prokosch Archive located North of Bird Island, MN. (AKA -The Big Dig). The photo is yet another unmarked and undated picture of a mystery couple. The photo in question is on a metallic tin plate (6.5 x 8.5, full plate), I believe it is called a Tintypes. […]
Deutsches Namenlexikon
According to Godrom’s “Deutsches Namenlexikon” the name “Prokosch” is indeed very old and known to have existed since the 14th century. Prokosch, also Proksch, Broksch, Prokop and Prokopf from St Prokop the patron saint of ancient Bohemia. It is a first name. This name is quite prolific in Vienna, Austria, and is recorded in early times as Procop Moelner 1447 Glatz, […]
BERNI RULA – 1654
Prokosch Ancestry-BERNI RULA, 1654 Up to this point, the PROKOSCH surname has been tracked back to 1680 in the Village of Trohatin, (Drahotin, CZ), in the Province of Bohemia in the Austrian Empire. Attached are two pages from the BERNI RULA, 1654, Plzensky II for the parish Drahotin or also known as Berni Rula von […]
Prokosch Photo Album
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German Empire & Austrian Empire – 1871
In 1877, their country had been Austria-Hungary for over 400 years. After WW1 the monarchy was split up among 9 countries and 2 countries were newly created in 1918, ie. Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia according to the Treaty of Versailles. This was a questionable move, because ethnic groups suddenly found themselves in foreign countries. This did […]
George Prokosch WWI Draft Registration Card
WWI Draft Registration Card There are only a few issues with this document… Middle name: Charles vs. Carl ? Birthday: 13 Nov 1895 vs. 13 Nov 1894 ? Birth in New Ulm vs Sleepy Eye ? Living in Bird Island, MN, Farming, short, slender – These items seem correct… Also it was not clear […]
1880 Census – Franz & Barbara Prokosch Family
1880 Census Once again Prokosch is misspelled!!! John & Peter show up as living with the family, but do not show up on the manifest of the OHIO. They must have traveled to the US prior to the rest of the family.
Map of Austria 1911
Map of Austria & Hungary – 1911
Joseph & Margaretha Prokosch
22 November 1892 Kingman Twp, Bird Island
History: Renville County, Bird Island, Kingman, Sigel Twp, Brown County
Renville County This county, established February 20, 1855, and organized March 1 and November 8, 1866, was named for Joseph Renville, a “bois brule, ” whose father was French and mother Indian, of whom Dr. E. D. Neill gave an appreciative sketch in the first volume of the MHS Collections. Renville was born at or […]
PROKOSCH – Ancestry Reports
Prokosch Ancestry Report: Register Report Josepho Joannes PROKOSCH
Church Register for Berg and Melmitz
Kirchenbuchverzeichnis des Pfarrbezirks / Church registers in the parish: Berg (c. Hora Svatého Václava) mit Ortschaften: Berg, Hoslau, Natschetin, Schilligkau, Schiefernau, Trohatin Aufbewahrungsort: Staatliches Gebietssarchiv Pilsen. Band Film Matriken-Art Pfarrorte Jahrgänge von/bis 1 SM * oo Pfarrbezirk 1680-1718 3 SM *i Pfarrbezirk 1711-176l i/s 5 SM * Pfarrbezirk 1762-1784 i/s 33 ooi Pfarrbezirk 1719-1770 […]
Villages – German/Czech Location and Translation (10 mile radius from Trohatin)
Villages – German / Czech Names http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/LocTown.asp Searching for towns within 10 miles of 49°32’N 12°46’E Trohatin. Village Coordinates Maps Country Distance/Direction from 49°32’N 12°46’E 10 mile radius Alt Gramatin 49°33’N 12°45’ Czech Republic 1.4 miles NNW Alt Parisau 49°28’N 12°50’ Czech Republic 5.5 miles SSE Alt Possigkau 49°27’N 12°49’ Czech Republic 6.2 miles SSE […]
Basic Genealogical Vocabulary
Reference Section Basic Genealogical Vocabulary English German Czech birth Geburt narození born geboren, geb. narozený(á), rozený(á) (il)legitimate (un)ehelich (ne)manželský(á) […]
"American Notes" by Charles Dickens
In 1842, the year prior to the emigration of this family, Charles Dickens traveled to America. Some of his experiences and some of the places he visited were very similar to those described here. Dickens’ account of his trip was published as “American Notes.” “Imagine the wind howling, the sea roaring, the rain beating: all […]
SS OHIO
OHIO (1868), AMAZZONE [1894/95], RIO SANTA CRUZ [1896] Photograph (detail) of the OHIO in the Neuer Hafen, Bremerhaven, about 1887. Source: Arnold Kludas, Die Geschichte der Deutschen Passagierschiffahrt, Bd. 1: Die Pionierjahre von 1850 bis 1890, Schriften des Deutschen Schiffahrtsmuseums, 22 (Hamburg: Kabel, c1986), p. 171. Photo used with permission from the Steamship Historical Society […]
Passage to a New World (1879)
The massive steamship OHIO of the North German Lloyd line pulled away from the dock in the northern German harbor town of Bremerhaven, port terminus of the city of Bremen, to venture beyond the mouth of the Weser River and into the cold green waves of the North Sea. Picking up speed, the ship steamed […]
A Short Immigration Story
The Trip to the New World While we do not have any diaries, journals or first hand information documenting the Franz & Barbara Prokosch trip, I have included an interesting story of another family that made the trip, likely under similar conditions just a few months prior to the Prokosch trip…. Preparing to Leave At […]
