I definitely do not want to repeat the links that you can find on other sites. I hope that you will find useful the links, which I use while researching.

I hope that the translation of the most important Czech words will help you to learn how to use the site pointed to...

EXCHANGE RATES  USD : CZK

This one was promised at the site describing the conditions of professional help - I think it's necessary to start with this :

http://wdb.cnb.cz/cnb/KURZY.K_PROC?p_date=04.04.2005

You must change the date in DD.MM.YYYY format for to obtain actual data. If you obtain no results, please try the preceeding date. The rates are updated every working day at about 15:30 CET

TELEPHONE BOOK - Czech Republik

http://ctel.iol.cz/index.php

"Prijmeni" = surname (first three letters are enough), "obec" = place, "Tel. obvod" = area,

"používám diakritiku" .... leave it BLANK, unless you have Czech fonts !

"ukaž na mapě" = display the map

SEARCHABLE MAPS of Czech Republik

http://mapy2.atlas.cz/mapviewer/mapviewer.aspx

"obec" = place, "sídla"= settlements. "kraj" = district (large), "ulice" = street. "hledat" = search

German names of many places in the territory of Sudeten ( not complete, but useful)

http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/SUD/orte/ort-index.html

... and you can try to browse the whole site, it contains very useful info in many sections. In German.

Czech surnames and their frequency

http://www.mvcr.cz/statistiky/jmena/index.html

you can download the complete file there ("soubor" = file ), sorted ("setříděno") by frequency ("četnost") or alphabeticaly ("abeceda")

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