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Srameks from Chudenice, CZ & Chicago

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Re: Srameks from Chudenice or Komeno

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 9:45PM GMT
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Looking at a contemporary atlas put out by Geoclub, I find Chudenice near Klatovy, which is a ways south of Plzen. (I think Chudenice is pronounced Khoodenyitseh.) At first I thought Komeno might have been locative case for a village named Komen, but when I looked at the tables of case endings, there weren't any with just -o. (An example of locative is if someone is in Praha, they might say v Praze. In Brno, v Brne, with a hacek over the e.) If the person is from a smaller village, they only listed the house number. So you can assume they are from house 10, using the numbering from the year of the document. Sometimes the house numbers changed, sometimes they didn't. In some villages, they have both the new and the old number on the house. (I marvel at the organization.) Now, in a larger city, they would of course use street names, too. But Chudenice has less than 1,000 residents, so Komeno is not a street name.

The only village I find close by with a similar name is Kamen. Who knows, maybe 100 years ago there was an o at the end of the name. Perhaps you could scan the part of the document with "Komeno" on it and post it here. Then someone with knowledge of the writing of the day could verify that it is or is not Kameno/Komeno.

A related point: the country is organized into a hierarchy of administrative units. It's kind of like the county and township system used in states like Kansas and Nebraska, except that the CR has so many more villages. So Kamen may be tied administratively to Chudenice, which is tied to the larger city Klatovy. So on most baptismal documents, for example, you would see all 3 listed. The exception is when the person is from the larger city to begin with.

There is a Komorno, but it seems a little too far away to be in the Chudenice district.

Chudenice has a nice website. Here is the address, as of Dec. 2010.

http://www.sumavanet.cz/chudenice/

BTW, my Srameks came from a lot further east, near the Caslav area. Their village was the middle-sized one, and while it is spelled Okresanec (with marks), in 1877 it was spelled Vokresanec or Wokresanec.
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jake sramek 18 Jun 2010 1:37AM GMT 
marylevesque2... 24 Dec 2010 4:45AM GMT 
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