Genealogy Projects tagged with Czecholsolvakia on the Geni Family Tree

German Bohemian Immigrants to Wisconsin

In the early days as a territory, Wisconsin was settled by families from Bohemia, then part of the Austrian Empire. The ancestors of Germanic families went to Bohemia in the 1600s for farm land at the invitation of the King of Bohemia. Over generations, they maintained their distinctive Germanic dialect and practiced the Roman Catholic faith--as distinct from their Slavic neighbors. In their vi...