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by Miloslav Rechcígl, Jr. The industrial nature, skill, workmanship and precision were attributes that made the Czech tradesmen famous throughout Europe. To become a tradesman or craftsman required on the job training, schooling, as well as apprenticeship with a master Read More …

FROM COLONIAL TIMES TO PRESENT GENEALOGICAL LINEAGES Compiled and Edited by Miloslav Rechcígl, Jr. SVU Press, 1987. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 86-063911 Copyright (C) Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences, Inc. 1987 No part of tis publication may Read More …

Miloslav Rechcígl, Jr. The Demuth family, who immigrated to America from Moravia in the early part of the eighteenth century, had the distinction of being the charter members of the renewed Unitas fratrum Church, later known as the Moravian Church Read More …

by Miloslav Rechcígl, Jr. It has generally been assumed that the first emigrants from the Czechlands who permanently settled in Pennsylvania were Moravian Brethren in the eighteenth century who sought refuge in America from religious persecution. We are, of course, Read More …

by Miloslav Rechcígl Jr. According to Thomas Capek’s classical book The Czechs (Bohemians) in America (1920), the first groups of Czechs began filtering into Chicago in 1852- 53. Similarly, a noted Czech American journalist Frantisek Boleslav Zdrubek, who lived in Read More …

by Miloslav Rechcígl, Jr. Information concerning the arrival of the first Slovaks in this country is rather scanty and unreliable. Claims have been made that the first Sbovak to arrive in the New World was Stephanus Parmenius who in 1583 Read More …

by Miloslav Rechcígl, Jr. Contrary to the general belief, it was neither Chicago nor New York nor Cleveland that initially most attracted Czech immigrants to settle there but rather the state of Wisconsin. This can be verified by the existing Read More …

by Miloslav Rechcígl, Jr. As we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the independence of Czechs and Slovaks from the Austro-Hungarian oppression and the foundation of Czechoslovakia on October 28, 1918, we should also remember the role the Czech Americans played Read More …