I visited my dads side of the family, in West. St Mary's Cemetery to find my great grandparents and some of my grandfathers siblings. I alway thought his name was Otec and thought it was odd and was surprised to see lots of Otec's in his area. Duh, translation app..it's dad in Czech. I learned last week that they migrated into the US through Galveston and found the records of it. They were on the SS Hanover and arrived in Galveston on April 23, 1880. They brought one daughter with them, Anna, and made thier way to Abbott to an existing or to establish a family farm, where more children were born as well and my dad and his siblings. All in the same house. There's tons more history that I've learned this week and tons more to learn. Like, my granparents had paid a 5 dollar water deposit but didn't get plumbing installed in the home for several more years. I found the papers from that yesterday, and tons more cool stuff. Learnign these little hings is so cool.
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If anyone is interested, this is the site with the Galveston immigration records.
www.galvestonhistory.org
Galveston Immigration Database - Galveston Historical Foundation
The Galveston Immigration Database includes names of passengers and members of their traveling parties, occupation, country of origin, ship name, and more.
www.galvestonhistory.org
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36 hours of labor for only $35!! How times have changed!
and a ditch digger for just 28 dollars. I know this property from helping till the garden every year as a kid, and it's all the black gumbo clay stuff that a tiller struggled with. I can't imagine using a shovel on this lot
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Yeah, I can. As a kid my brother and I had to dig a 4 foot deep 2 foot wide septic field trench through that stuff until my Dad finally realized it might take us a few months and opted to rent a backhoe so it could be done in a day!
We got about six feet before that though and it took the better part of the day.
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ooouch . Makes me hurt just thinking about it. Both sides of my family came into NY then somehow spent time failing in SD then TX before moving on to the west coast. What the heck am I trying to grow anything in TX for, it's futile. Just when its finally continuing halfway well, with whatever was tough enough to survive late freezes that killed most everything, here comes late spring /summer heat, then armyworms in the fall to finish off a second attempt. How did I offend the Lord and end up here as an agronomy minded guy who grew up loving the fertility of CA's San Joaquin valley? Maybe he said, "Ed I see you still gonna ride motorcycles, but you ain't that good on the twisties anymore, I'm moving you to Texas before you hurt yourself". Or perhaps it was simply Acts 1:8 in affect.
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My wife's great-grandparents came from Czechoslovakia or Yugoslavia in the late 1800s but I misplaced the census records and can't remember for sure. They wound up in Throop PA and he worked in the coal mines there. I would imagine that was incredibly difficult as well.
If they came into Galveston, which most front hat area did, you might can find their listing here.
www.galvestonhistory.org
If they came into New York, online there is less details in those records. My mothers family came in that way. For them it was just a penciled in name written down of the father and nobody else.
www.archives.gov
Just with my thing to lookup famly, I hd a friend in grade school that I used to go to his family land and have a blast all weekend, out in the woods. His family has a cemetery on the land where the original family that migrated here was placed. The land got sold, and to do that, the burial area had to be fenced and designated as a cemetery. In find a grave, there's nothing listed other than the location, so I've been researching that family and I'll be adding information soon about them.
Galveston Immigration Database - Galveston Historical Foundation
The Galveston Immigration Database includes names of passengers and members of their traveling parties, occupation, country of origin, ship name, and more.
www.galvestonhistory.org
If they came into New York, online there is less details in those records. My mothers family came in that way. For them it was just a penciled in name written down of the father and nobody else.
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www.archives.gov
Just with my thing to lookup famly, I hd a friend in grade school that I used to go to his family land and have a blast all weekend, out in the woods. His family has a cemetery on the land where the original family that migrated here was placed. The land got sold, and to do that, the burial area had to be fenced and designated as a cemetery. In find a grave, there's nothing listed other than the location, so I've been researching that family and I'll be adding information soon about them.