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Hometown Hostau - Genealogy

Who once starts to deal with genealogy, has to take into consideration, that he will never be able to come to an end. Commitment, sense of family, understanding, patience and a common sense of community are absolutely necessary to address oneself with this topic. Genealogy creates an addiction, costs money, takes much time and the rest of the whole clan is very pleased that a "stupid one" commits himself to do all the work. However, it is an enormous pleasure to see how the collected information fits together as a whole, which seems to be arranged by single mosaic pieces. "Immersing" into the past enables impressions of the ancestors' life. Furthermore, it offers a variety of completely new impressions and a bigger understanding for the phylogeny of the own the family. The starting point can be completely private to fulfill the need to investigate the roots of their own origin. In addition, this implies at the same time the historical and political dimension of genealogy. Now after over 55 years the need is unbroken to gain details about one’s Sudeten-German ancestors. Furthermore, for many younger people, genealogy becomes a passion, which overrides the still existing doubts of the expelled generation. After the resettlement these people had to install a new economy. Additionally the discussion on the tragedy of the expulsion got more and more into the background. Many of the expelled ones thought it might be better not to tell everybody where they originated. In the meantime, people went back to a successful life. Therefore, no one was interested, that the others would know about their ancestors who had been perhaps poor cottagers, daytallers, sheppards or agricultural laborers. Anyway the quotation of Kleo Player characterizes best the identity of the Sudeten-Germans: "The colonization of the Sudeten-area is an era of heroism in the Sudeten-German history. In the ancestral portrait gallery of the Sudeten-Germans there are only a few men with a shining armor and uniform, however, there are millions of furrowed faces, and millions of callous hands. They seem to be poor ancestors. Yet a shining had derived form these faces and hands for centuries, and this shining was called the luminescent brilliance of the Bohemian crown.” ;

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All records of the parish in Hostau are stored at the state-run regional archives in Pilsen:

Státní oblastní archiv v Plzni
Sedlackova 44
CZ-306 12 Plzen (Czech Republic)
Tel. +420-377 236 263, 377 325 732
Fax: 377 327 269
Email: podatelna@soaplzen.cz

birth certificate, baptismal certificate, Hostau

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Comments:
Horouschen and Alt-Gramatin belonged to the parish of Muttersdorf till 1784; Holubschen was part of the parish in Melmitz after 1784.

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For further information read the GBHS newsletters

pdf 2006-06-01 GHBS Heimatbrief
pdf 2006-09-01 GBHS Heimatbrief
pdf 2006-12-01 GBHS Heimatbrief
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