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Prague Day Trips and geneaology searches OUTSTANDING

Old Feb 27th, 2010, 10:04 AM
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Prague Day Trips and geneaology searches OUTSTANDING

I have spent 3 years off and on, searching for lost relatives NO LUCK-- I finally found Rasto Lauf of Prague Day Trips to help me. He has been nothing short of fantastic. This guy doesn't know when to quit. He has found basically all my and my family's realtives in the Czech Republic. We travel with him in his Mercedes minivan all over The republic. He is very reasonable and will devote himself to making sure no mater what you want he will find it for you. He has a website and a Miami tele number. If you want any kind of serious traveling out of Prague Rasto is your man.

What you are talking about here is a truely custom trip in the Czech republic. He does drive people all over eastern europe but he specalizes in things that can not be done.
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Old Mar 5th, 2010, 05:13 AM
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That's amazing......must have been great experience, and what about your relatives, have you met them?
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Old Mar 6th, 2010, 04:06 PM
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Yes on my grandmothers side the old place is still in the family in Vitanov. It is being renovated by A Balek who would be my third cousin I think
On my Grandfathers side it is unusual but my great grandmother named all her children after herself then moved to America in 1910 with my grandfather

On my mothers side we have all wedding records and birth records. I have been to all the villages seen the cemetaries all of them have her family names. All the families left the villages for central Nebraska and Kansas and Minnesota in 1840-65

I am cementing down what I know and will work on my mothers side next year.
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Interesting, it must be really time consuming to start such a quest.....where are you actually from?
I am originally from Slovakia therefore such interest in czech republic
do you speak czech language too?
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Old Mar 17th, 2010, 09:57 AM
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I was from Nebraska and now live on the Gulf Coast.
My dad was born here but concieved in Bohemia. Did not speak english till he was 5
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