Maternal grandmother, Mary Lucy (née Michalik), recorded as Maria Lucia Michalík in the German language baptism register, was born in Heřmanice, Ostrava-Město, Czechia.

www.findagrave.com/memorial/888...

Maternal grandfather, Charles Gouzd, recorded as Karl Gwuzd in the German language baptism register, was born 1885 in Poruba, Karviná, Czechia.

www.findagrave.com/memorial/888...

@judgejohnhodgman.bsky.social

Chicago hot dog joint Portillo's weighs in on the hot dog/sandwich debate and it looks like a hot dog is not included in their National Sandwich Day free sandwich promotion.

I wonder if some will argue for a free hot dog??

#Chicago #Portillos #hotdog

Chicago Tribune
Chicago, Illinois
Fri, Sep 17, 1886
Page 3

The Inter Ocean
Chicago, Illinois
Fri, Sep 17, 1886
Page 3

Green Bay Press-Gazette
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Sat, Sep 25, 1886
Page 3

Green Bay Press-Gazette
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Sat, Sep 25, 1886
Page 3

www.newspapers.com/article/gree...

MyHeritage had indexed the location as Kressenburg, which is a valid location in Lower Austria near Southern Bohemia.

Here is NYC birth record link.
a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov/view/10636571

Here is the baptism record.
ebadatelna.soapraha.cz/d/7404/466

Czech immigrant ancestral village search success story thanks to @reclaimtherecords.org helping get the NYC vital record images published.

From all US records, only an 1878 birth record showed the birth locations of the parents. Kuttenberg is the German exonym for Kutna Hora.

#Genealogy #Czech

The largest missing digitized record block is Manhattan death certificate images 1876-1919. Hopefully these these can be released in small blocks as available.

a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov/digital-vita...

20-AUG-1841 baptism of my 2GGF, James Dowling in Suncroft Parish, County Kildare. Bottom left and hard to read. His parents were James Dowling and Ellen Hyland.
registers.nli.ie/pages/vtls00...

His "abode" in the baptism is listed as Brownstown.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownst...

#Genealogy #Irish

Years researching: 6
Hobbyist: Paternal pedigree research is original with help from FB groups.
Discovery : Y-DNA GD6 match with surname Papesch in NZ due to a Papež/Vondráková marriage in 1714.
Niche : US immigrants from Chmeľnica, Slovakia.

#Genealogy #SixGenerations
#Slavic #Czech #Slovak #Rusyn

Bill Burr was born in JUL-1968 and from the South Bend Tribune, his parents were married in 1964. His father is a dentist.