Research Links to Other Sites

As follows are helpful links for our Filipek, Jana, Nemec, and Sokolik family research.

Archives and Libraries

Cemetery Locations

  1. Resurrection Cemetery is at 7200 South Archer Road, Justice, Illinois. Vaclav and Katerina Filipek and Frank and Mary Nemec are buried at Resurrection Cemetery.
  2. Chapel Hill Gardens South is at 11333 S. Central Avenue, Worth, Illinois. James and Grace Filipek are buried at Chapel Hill Gardens South.
  3. Chapel Hill Gardens West is at 17W201 E Roosevelt Road, Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois. Theodore and Louise Sokolik, John and Katherine and Florence Sokolik are buried at Chapel Hill Gardens West.
  4. Bohemian National Cemetery is at 525 N Pulaski, Chicago, Illinois. James F. Filipek and Lillian Spaninger are buried at the Bohemian National Cemetery.

Colorado

Vaclav and Katerina Filipek, Theodore Sokolik, and the Frank Jana families spend time in Colorado in the 1890s working on the railroad. In the Filipek and Sokolik cases, it is known this was the Denver and Rio Grande, and it was probably the same for Frank Jana.

  1. Colorado State Archives
  2. Ghost Depot - Focus on the history of the Denver and Rio Grande Rail Road

General Genealogy

  1. Rootsweb Surname List - Interactive Search - Our family surnames have been entered
  2. Rootsweb World Connect Project
  3. ProQuest - good source for various research data bases; however most are fee based.

Illinois

  1. Genealogy Records at the Illinois State Archives - Some searchable databases
  2. Illinois Statewide Marriage Index - Data is prior to 1901
  3. RootsWeb Cook County Message Board - Some surname lists and obituaries
  4. Archdiocese of Chicago Archives and Record Center

Immigration

  1. American Family Immigration History Center - Ellis Island Immigrant Database
  2. Castle Garden - the arrival location in New York for many ship before Ellis Island was opened in 1893.
  3. Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild - Transcriptions of Ship Records
  4. Hamburg Passenger Lists 1850-1934
  5. Passport Applications - National Archives and Records Administration

Neighborhood History

  1. Bridgeport - This link provides a very good history of Bridgeport. Bridgeport is the section of Chicago where our Filipek, Nemec and Sokolik families lived at the end of the 19th century.

World War I

James A. Filipek was a Corporal in Company C, 4th Infantry, 3rd Division in WWI. He arrived in late October 1918, about a month before hostilities ended. He then became part of the Army of Occupation. He returned in August 1919. These are links to WWI sites which explain some of the history of the times.

  1. World War One (World War I, WWI or "The Great War")

 

Czechoslovakia

General
  1. Ancestry's Bohemian Message Board
  2. Czech Mail List on RootsWeb
  3. Online English-Czech Dictionary
  4. Travlang - A useful link for travel and everyday language translation.
  5. Seznam Mapy - A useful Map Link
  6. ShtetlSeeker - Town Search - A useful link for locating towns in Czechoslovakia

Czech Societies

  1. Czechoslovak Genealogical Society Int'l (CGSI) - Based in Minnesota, good overview site
  2. CSAGSI: The Web Page of the Czech & Slovak American Genealogy Society of Illinois
  3. Catholic Order of Foresters - Vaclav Filipek belonged to this Fraternal Organization
  4. Slovak Catholic Sokol Home Page - Vaclav Filipek belonged to Sokol Vlast
  5. The Sokol Movement

 

Links last updated: May 24, 2009