--- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 17:26:32 +0100 From: Francis Herbert <[log in to unmask]> Subject: RE: genealogy question <fwd> Sender: Francis Herbert <[log in to unmask]> All I can offer at present is simple 'Lochovice' (both the 'ch' and the 'h' are aspirated at different levels of intensity in Czech) on the 1:75 000-scale Austro-Hungarian/Czech Republic map series, sheet Zone 6 Col. [roman] X 'Beraun und Horowitz'/4052 'Horovice a Beroun' of 1882 and 1925/1926 (and on these and other maps to the 1990s). On none of them is there a 'Velke' [or, rather, Vel'ke - meaning 'Large' or 'Great'] Lochovice (if there were, one might usually expect also an adjacent or nearby 'Male' [meaning 'Small' or 'Little'). Position: approx. N 49 degrees 51 minutes/E 13 degrees 59 minutes; it is not for me to opine whether this is "perhaps near Prague"! Sincerely Francis Herbert (Curator of Maps, RGS-IBG; 'just in' this a.m. from 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries, St Louis MO) [log in to unmask] > -----Original Message----- > From: Johnnie Sutherland [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: 22 September 1999 21:05 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: genealogy question <fwd> > > --- Begin Forwarded Message --- > Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 13:42:36 -1000 > From: Riley Moffat <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: genealogy question > Sender: Riley Moffat <[log in to unmask]> > > > Aloha mapsters: > > I have a patron who would like to find a village that according to his > family > records existed in Bohemia in the late 1800s and possibly to WWI. The name > given > is "Velke Lohovice" and it is perhaps near Prague. We don't have access to > detailed maps of that area from that period of time here and any help you > all out > in mapland can give would be greatly appreciated. > > Please reply to <[log in to unmask]>. > > --- End Forwarded Message --- --- End Forwarded Message ---