Plague and famine?
The Thirty Years' War? Did they fight in World War I? On which side?
In which estate did they serve? Or perhaps they were at its helm?
Throughout the centuries, your ancestors fought against everything that fate threw at them. Disasters such as fires and floods, famines, epidemics and crop failures, wars and wasted opportunities, and the hardships of everyday life. Day after day, events occurred that brought unexpected and unwanted twists and turns to their lives. Some they were able to overcome with determination and perseverance, others they could only accept and adapt to. Despite all this, their genes found their way, and so here you are today. Roots pushed through soil and stones so that the fruits could see the sun. The family line was not broken.
What happened along the way?
In addition to your genes, you also inherited your surname from your ancestors. Their surname is recorded on papers in dusty registry books, vast maps of the Kingdom of Bohemia, and contracts for the transfer of property to the next generation. It is everywhere where an event that gives direction to life is recorded. Each pastor and registrar may have written it down slightly differently according to the language of their time, but it has endured to get to you.
What does it mean to bear the name of your family?
Your ancestors in times past formed strong bonds. Decades-long bonds to the craft that fed them and their families, lifelong bonds to wives and husbands, because marriage ended only with the death of one of them, and centuries-long bonds to the home where the whole family lived for many centuries.
What bonds did your ancestors form?
Are you ready to discover it?