Through correspondence with my long-lost cousin, I've learned a bit more about where one part of my ancestry came from. It would appear that my maternal grandmother's family line (the Gibians, for those of you keeping score at home) immigrated from a region of then-Austria (or the Austro-Hungarian empire, I guess) known as Boehmen Koenigreich, aka Bohemia. This region is now in the Czech Republic and is home to a little city called Prague.
I guess this makes me part Czech! I've been wanting to visit Prague...
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Cool. My family's ancestry is from that exact area also and around the same time when it was the Austro-Hungarian empire.
Posted by: Tom | January 29, 2006 01:44 PM