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Steven Vondrak @svondrak.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

#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".

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Steven Vondrak @svondrak.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

#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. english.radio.cz/czech-dog-br...

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The Czechoslovakian Wolfdog

The Czechoslovakian Wolfdog’s name doesn’t lie – it is indeed part dog, part wolf!

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Steven Vondrak @svondrak.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Former 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 #Czech

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Steven Vondrak @svondrak.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Old 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 -- shipwreckspod.substack.com/p/researcher...

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Researchers have found a "Ghost Ship" in Lake Michigan after 139 years

The schooner "F.J. King" went down on September 15th, 1886 in Lake Michigan.

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Steven Vondrak @svondrak.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Czech 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 #Czech

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Steven Vondrak @svondrak.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

#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. www.findagrave.com/memorial/558...

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Charley Havlat (1910-1945) - Find a Grave...

World War II United States Army soldier. He is considered to be the last member of the United States armed forces to be killed in combat in the European Theater. A member of the 803rd Tank Destroyer B...

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Josh Andrews @joshandrews.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

New search feature: should you want to view all 52 artworks seen onscreen during the @artinstitutechi.bsky.social montage in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, just search "Save Ferris" and we've got you covered. www.artic.edu/collection?t...

A screenshot of the Art Institute of Chicago website, showing a filtered view of the collection. The filter's title, is "Save Ferris" and displays 52 artworks featured in the movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".

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Steven Vondrak @svondrak.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

20-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. registers.nli.ie/pages/vtls00... His "abode" in the baptism is listed as Brownstown. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownst... #Genealogy #Irish

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Jason Jay Smart @jjsmart.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Cleveland, Ohio, USA 🇺🇸 supports Ukraine 🇺🇦.

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Steven Vondrak @svondrak.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

On 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. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart%... #Genealogy #Mozart

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Mozart's name - Wikipedia

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Mug, c. 1600 Made in #Bohemia #Czech (Art Institute Chicago)

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Steven Vondrak @svondrak.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Years 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 #Rusyn

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