I enjoy genealogy as a hobby and have learned to hunt down ancestral villages of immigrants and research parish archives. Most research has been in central Europe from my paternal side (primarily in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Greek Catholic (Carpatho-Rusyn) records in southern Poland and western Ukraine.)
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If there is a memorial that I manage that is not part of my family and you are related and would like to manage, please request per Findagrave "Edit" link on the memorial.
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Facebook group for the surname Vondrak/Ondrak and variants.
See links to request membership, if applicable.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/vondrak.geneology
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Ongoing project documenting all the immigrants from the Carpathian German village of present day Chmeľnica, Slovakia. I have images of all the parish archives and correspond with the village historian.
More than 150 immigrants have been documented.
https://www.findagrave.com/virtual-cemetery/1482028

Surnames of families currently living in Chmelnica
https://www.cisarik.com/0_Chmelnica_Stara_Lubovna_PV_Szepes_Spis.html#more_surnames
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Surnames in my paternal pedigree
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Bohemia (historical Sedlčany) : Vondrák, Čanda, Soukup
Bohemia (Plzeň-South) : Sedláček, Voráček
Slovakia (Spis) : Kočun/Koczun/Cochen, Špes, Schisser, Alexik, Klimko, Haničák
Carpatho-Rusyn (Małopolska & Spis): Petriszak/Petrick, Ruszinyak, Jurczak, Krucsek/Kruk

Maternal side includes immigrants from historical Baden, now SW Germany (Upper Rhine Valley), historical Württemberg, and NE Ireland (Counties Tyrone, Meath, Kildare, Down). They immigrated to NW Ohio in the early to mid-1800's. German immigrants initially to Huron/Erie OH counties and the Irish immigrants to the community around Assumption, Amboy Township, Fulton County, OH. These lines were already researched, but I plan to check the parish archives where possible in the future.

Surnames in my maternal pedigree
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Germany (historical Baden) : Camp/Gamp, Kromer, Oberle, Herb
Germany (historical Württemberg) : Snyder/Schneider
Ireland : Irwin, Dowling, Linehan, Hyland

Findagrave interest is primarily memorials related to my extended family and also those of immigrants from present day Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland to document their specific ancestral villages in the memorial and complete the family relationships.
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The Czech language surname Ondrák/ Vondrák is derived from the Slavic language personal (first) name Ondřej (for Saint Andrew, the apostle). Ondrák is more formal/literary, Vondrák is more colloquial. Adding the "V" (or "W") sound before the "O" allows the spoken word to flow when the preceding word ends in a vowel sound. In the Czech parish archives the letters "V' and "W" are used interchangeably.

The "-ek" suffix is a diminutive denoting a descendant of the original surname, but generally the diminutive names for a family were first taken many centuries ago, before written records for commoners.
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My Vondrák ancestors came from the farmhouse at Krchov #3 (part of the present day municipality of Petrovice, Příbram, Central Bohemia, Czechia). This is about 50 miles south of Prague along the Vltava River (and just east of the present day Orlik Reservoir). Vondrak family were "sedlak" farmers to the Petrovice Estate.

I descend from Josef Vondrák (1844-1922) and his wife Veronika Čandová (1847-1916) who immigrated to Cleveland in Oct 1880 with their five living children. They are buried in Calvary Cemetery in Cleveland.
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Additional projects

- Memorials for all the immigrant families from Bohemia with surname Vondrak (and possible surname variants such as Ondrak/Wondrak, and Vondrasek/Vondracek). These interments will primarily involve cemeteries in the Chicago area, Ohio, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, and Nebraska.

I enjoy genealogy as a hobby and have learned to hunt down ancestral villages of immigrants and research parish archives. Most research has been in central Europe from my paternal side (primarily in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Greek Catholic (Carpatho-Rusyn) records in southern Poland and western Ukraine.)
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If there is a memorial that I manage that is not part of my family and you are related and would like to manage, please request per Findagrave "Edit" link on the memorial.
--
Facebook group for the surname Vondrak/Ondrak and variants.
See links to request membership, if applicable.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/vondrak.geneology
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Ongoing project documenting all the immigrants from the Carpathian German village of present day Chmeľnica, Slovakia. I have images of all the parish archives and correspond with the village historian.
More than 150 immigrants have been documented.
https://www.findagrave.com/virtual-cemetery/1482028

Surnames of families currently living in Chmelnica
https://www.cisarik.com/0_Chmelnica_Stara_Lubovna_PV_Szepes_Spis.html#more_surnames
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Surnames in my paternal pedigree
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Bohemia (historical Sedlčany) : Vondrák, Čanda, Soukup
Bohemia (Plzeň-South) : Sedláček, Voráček
Slovakia (Spis) : Kočun/Koczun/Cochen, Špes, Schisser, Alexik, Klimko, Haničák
Carpatho-Rusyn (Małopolska & Spis): Petriszak/Petrick, Ruszinyak, Jurczak, Krucsek/Kruk

Maternal side includes immigrants from historical Baden, now SW Germany (Upper Rhine Valley), historical Württemberg, and NE Ireland (Counties Tyrone, Meath, Kildare, Down). They immigrated to NW Ohio in the early to mid-1800's. German immigrants initially to Huron/Erie OH counties and the Irish immigrants to the community around Assumption, Amboy Township, Fulton County, OH. These lines were already researched, but I plan to check the parish archives where possible in the future.

Surnames in my maternal pedigree
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Germany (historical Baden) : Camp/Gamp, Kromer, Oberle, Herb
Germany (historical Württemberg) : Snyder/Schneider
Ireland : Irwin, Dowling, Linehan, Hyland

Findagrave interest is primarily memorials related to my extended family and also those of immigrants from present day Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland to document their specific ancestral villages in the memorial and complete the family relationships.
--
The Czech language surname Ondrák/ Vondrák is derived from the Slavic language personal (first) name Ondřej (for Saint Andrew, the apostle). Ondrák is more formal/literary, Vondrák is more colloquial. Adding the "V" (or "W") sound before the "O" allows the spoken word to flow when the preceding word ends in a vowel sound. In the Czech parish archives the letters "V' and "W" are used interchangeably.

The "-ek" suffix is a diminutive denoting a descendant of the original surname, but generally the diminutive names for a family were first taken many centuries ago, before written records for commoners.
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My Vondrák ancestors came from the farmhouse at Krchov #3 (part of the present day municipality of Petrovice, Příbram, Central Bohemia, Czechia). This is about 50 miles south of Prague along the Vltava River (and just east of the present day Orlik Reservoir). Vondrak family were "sedlak" farmers to the Petrovice Estate.

I descend from Josef Vondrák (1844-1922) and his wife Veronika Čandová (1847-1916) who immigrated to Cleveland in Oct 1880 with their five living children. They are buried in Calvary Cemetery in Cleveland.
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Additional projects

- Memorials for all the immigrant families from Bohemia with surname Vondrak (and possible surname variants such as Ondrak/Wondrak, and Vondrasek/Vondracek). These interments will primarily involve cemeteries in the Chicago area, Ohio, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, and Nebraska.