= Rawlins County Kansas Czech Histories =
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== Introduction ==

This is a ''group project'' of the history of the Czech families that settled in Rawlins County Kansas.

In 1988, the Rawlins County Genealogy Society produced a wonderful history of Rawlins County Kansas (see [http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/rawlins Rawlins County Genealogy Website]).  We are not planning a replacement of that history.  This is intended to be more of an update of the Czech history, trying to focus on the history of the Czech ancestors that blazed a trail to secure a better life for all their descendants.

We hope to collect all the stories, edit into a compilation and then publish it or otherwise make it available.  Ideas we have are:
 * A section of surnames: 
   * Focus on the history of each surname and the history of that family's settlement in Rawlins County.  
   * Additional genealogy data is hoped to be added to the story to enrich the history.
   * Individual descendant family histories (such as in the 1988 book) currently aren't planned (but we remain flexible)
 * A section of other histories written by early pioneers.
 * Other helpful genealogy information, such as ship lists, other records.

=== How to help ===

This website is a "wiki".  A wiki is a type of website that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove and otherwise edit and change some available content.

Please join us by contacting the webmaster Kevin Vap ([http://tinyurl.com/2fcd9s click to reveal email]) and you can have a login to help make changes.  Or just send your contributions to the webmaster.

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== Surname Histories ==
 * [wiki:SurnameHistories]

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== Ship Records ==
 * [wiki:ImmigrantShips]

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== Pioneer Histories ==
 * [wiki:FrankVapHeritage Frank Vap Heritage]
 * [http://www.vap.org/genealogy/histories/1968_jw_prochazka_history/history_as_i_remember_jw_prochazka_1968.pdf John Prochazka "Old Timer" stories (large PDF file)]
 * [http://www.vap.org/genealogy/histories/1973_enoch_horinek_tillie_stupka_history/enoch_horinek.pdf Enoch Horinek (large PDF file)]
 * [wiki:History/JosephDozbaba Joseph Dozbaba]
 * [wiki:History/BohemianSettlement Bohemian Settlement - SS. Cyril and Methodius]

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== Links ==

 * [wiki:Contributors Contributors to this project]
 * [http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/rawlins Rawlins County Genealogy page]
 * [/project/gen Front page for this website]