Monthly meeting of the Elgin Genealogical Society with a presentation on Internet Resources for Czech Genealogy.
Roger Liska is a retired teacher and member of CSAGSI, the Czech and Slovak Genealogy Society of Illinois. He is newsletter editor for the society and maintains CSAGSI website as well as his own family websites. Roger’s presentation will demonstrate how to access USA and Czech based Internet sites for researching Czech ancestry. Topics include methods to find USA and Czech homes of interest; Czech land and historical maps; USA and Czech birth, death, and marriage information; multiple search variations; immigration and citizenship searches; Chicago Czech newspaper obituaries; and discovering the names and locations of Czech villages and cities.