Tech software sales and support. Slavic genealogy and history enthusiast.https://bsky.app/profile/svondrak.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/svondrak.bsky.social/post/3mt7o3moj722i#Genealogy #Slavic #JewishGen Here is the story of a poignant outcome from a search on a surname, Shefska, on Ancestry, while looking for an ancestral village. Some car research on YouTube linked me to a daily livestream from a father and son, Ray and Zach Shefska, who founded "caredge.com".16 Aug 2026 17:02 +0000at://did:plc:hewiceercwuij45c52i3ea67/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt7o3moj722ihttps://bsky.app/profile/svondrak.bsky.social/post/3mf5uojgva22s#Olympics #Czechia #Slovakia #wolfdog The dog breed loose during the women's skiing event at the Olympics. -- A German shepherd and Carpathian grey wolf mix bred in the late 1950's for the Czechoslovak border guard. https://english.radio.cz/czech-dog-breeds-8742713/7#player=on18 Feb 2026 20:01 +0000at://did:plc:hewiceercwuij45c52i3ea67/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf5uojgva22shttps://bsky.app/profile/svondrak.bsky.social/post/3m4ruzxk4kk22Former West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin was on @thedailyshow.com and he always mentions his maternal side is Czechoslovak, but they are only Czech and emigrated to the US before 1913 from the Moravian-Silesian Region of the present-day Czech Republic. #Genealogy #Czech04 Nov 2025 06:14 +0000at://did:plc:hewiceercwuij45c52i3ea67/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4ruzxk4kk22https://bsky.app/profile/svondrak.bsky.social/post/3lz7aiaowus2bOld newspaper articles related to the recently found Lake Michigan wreck of the iron ore schooner F.J. King. Lighthouse keeper accounts from days after the wreck contradicted accounts from the rescued captain. No lives were lost. #Genealogy #Newspapers -- https://shipwreckspod.substack.com/p/researchers-have-found-a-ghost-ship19 Sep 2025 16:03 +0000at://did:plc:hewiceercwuij45c52i3ea67/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz7aiaowus2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/svondrak.bsky.social/post/3lwtqguizkc2vCzech immigrant ancestral village search success story thanks to @reclaimtherecords.org helping get the NYC vital record images published. From all US records, only an 1878 birth record showed the birth locations of the parents. Kuttenberg is the German exonym for Kutna Hora. #Genealogy #Czech20 Aug 2025 15:26 +0000at://did:plc:hewiceercwuij45c52i3ea67/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwtqguizkc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/svondrak.bsky.social/post/3lopwcrhltk2m#Czech #Genealogy Charlie Havlat, the son of Czech immigrants that settled in Nebraska, who died 7-MAY-1945 in present day Volary, Okres Prachatice, Czechia, is believed to be the last US armed forces killed during WWII in Europe. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5586961909 May 2025 07:39 +0000at://did:plc:hewiceercwuij45c52i3ea67/app.bsky.feed.post/3lopwcrhltk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/svondrak.bsky.social/post/3llzytfn27s2j#Czech #Slavic #Genealogy [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Apr 2025 03:35 +0000at://did:plc:hewiceercwuij45c52i3ea67/app.bsky.feed.post/3llzytfn27s2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/svondrak.bsky.social/post/3lklvucoons2k20-AUG-1841 baptism of my 2GGF, James Dowling in Suncroft Parish, County Kildare. Bottom left and hard to read. His parents were James Dowling and Ellen Hyland. https://registers.nli.ie/pages/vtls000634584_034 His "abode" in the baptism is listed as Brownstown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownstown,_County_Kildare #Genealogy #Irish17 Mar 2025 19:40 +0000at://did:plc:hewiceercwuij45c52i3ea67/app.bsky.feed.post/3lklvucoons2khttps://bsky.app/profile/svondrak.bsky.social/post/3lkbxi6s7hs2pHere is the old link on Internet Wayback https://web.archive.org/web/20241212193744/https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Explore/Notable-Graves #Genealogy [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Mar 2025 20:42 +0000at://did:plc:hewiceercwuij45c52i3ea67/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkbxi6s7hs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/svondrak.bsky.social/post/3li5hrnzlic2l@megansmolenyak.com [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Feb 2025 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:hewiceercwuij45c52i3ea67/app.bsky.feed.post/3li5hrnzlic2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/svondrak.bsky.social/post/3lgqs44ks7c2nOn Mozart's birthday, wikipedia has an analysis of his 1756 Salzburg baptism register and later name variants. Mozart's baptism name was recorded in Latin as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart%27s_name #Genealogy #Mozart27 Jan 2025 20:35 +0000at://did:plc:hewiceercwuij45c52i3ea67/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgqs44ks7c2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/svondrak.bsky.social/post/3lchjl2iqc22eYears researching: 6 Hobbyist: Paternal pedigree research is original with help from FB groups. Discovery : Y-DNA GD6 match with surname Papesch in NZ due to a Papež/Vondráková marriage in 1714. Niche : US immigrants from Chmeľnica, Slovakia. #Genealogy #SixGenerations #Slavic #Czech #Slovak #Rusyn04 Dec 2024 06:27 +0000at://did:plc:hewiceercwuij45c52i3ea67/app.bsky.feed.post/3lchjl2iqc22e