About us

Grandma's cousin drew up our family tree. I tried to build it again.

He taught history in Brno and wrote no sources on his sheets. I looked for them in the parish registers, record by record. That is how Moje historie began.

The top of an old sheet titled The Hromek family, main branch: boxes with names and years, František Hromek born 1840, Štěpán Hromek born 1846, joined by lines — The Hromek family, sheet one of seven. Names and years, without a single source.

How much of it is true?

I took the first name on the sheet and looked for it in the registers. Most of it holds. Some of it does not.

4 facts hold 2 do not

František Hromek: what the old sheet says about him and what the registers say
Fact	On the old sheet	In the register
Name	Holds: František Hromek	František Hromek
Born	Holds: 1810	3 December 1810
House	Holds: Horákov 44	Horákov no. 44
Wife	Holds: Marie Říčánková	Marianna Říčánková from Hostěnice
Wedding	Does not hold: ~~1840~~	15 September 1835. And before that he had a first wife, Josefa.
Died	Does not hold: ~~1869~~	In 1869 his little grandson died. He himself was still alive in 1874.

Registers of the parishes of Tvarožná and Pozořice, Moravian Land Archives in Brno (books no. 1983, 1578, 1991 and 1998).

How we read a record

A wedding from 1835, written in German in old script. Field by field.

A record from the register of marriages, Hostěnice 1835: in the columns the date 15 September, houses 44 and 13, the groom Franz Hromek, 25, the bride Marianne Říčankova, 22, and the priest Joannes Hoenigsberger — Register of marriages, Pozořice 1823 to 1855, page 36 HoverTap a field and the image zooms in on it.

II.

Record by record, further back

970 people
1 497 register records
1650 oldest record

The sheet began with František Hromek, born in 1810. The registers and the manor records led me further: to Jakub Hromek, a half farmer in Horákov in 1700.

Every fact in the family tree links to the record it comes from.

A person's card in the app: František Hromek, 1810 to 1874, three times great-grandfather, two marriages in 1835 and 1828, thirteen children; below it the text What we know about him with numbered links to register records — František Hromek in the app (in Czech). The number after every sentence leads to the record it comes from.

The record of his first wedding on 12 October 1828 in the app: an image of the register with colour-framed fields for date, groom, bride, age and witnesses, and a table of the facts read from it below — His first wedding, 1828: the image of the register and, below it, what it says.

III.

And this is what came of it

Today's tree of my family. The Hromeks, the Blažeks, the Mikšíks and all their ancestors.

The crown of a family tree in the app: the branches of the Hromek, Blažek, Mikšík and Langer families with name tags of surnames and ancestors, the trunk in the middle with Marie Hromková 1924 to 2004 — The tree in the app, centred on my great-aunt Marie. See the sample family

That is why Moje historie

We now offer you the same road. We start with one ancestor: we read their record from the parish register for free.

We search parish registers from Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia.
An ancestor born in 1920 or earlier.

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Who is behind it

PunkHive

Behind Moje historie is PunkHive, three friends from Olomouc in the Czech Republic. We enjoy software, bees and family history. More about us at punkhive.com

Company: PunkHive s.r.o., Olomouc, Czech Republic
Company ID: 21152195
Registered office: Kaštanová 1055/14, 779 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic
E-mail: info@mojehistorie.cz