Czechia How to Guides
How to use the guides
Select a guide from the list below based on your interests. Please note that some guides need to be completed in sequence to ensure a successful experience. Build your research knowledge and confidence with each activity you complete.
Each guide comes with three parts - Instruction, which includes a guided activity, Assignment, to test what you've learned, and an Answer key, to check how you did on the assignment. The guides are also rated as either Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced. The majority are designed for beginners.
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Available Guides
This is a work in progress. Please check back often for new and/or updated guides.
- Inserting Special Characters - Instruction
- Reading Catholic Parish Registers in Czech - Instruction
Gazetteers and Maps
- GenTeam Gazetteer Online - Instruction, Activity, Answer Key
- Arcanum Maps - Instruction, Activity, Answer Key
- Mapy.cz - Instruction, Activity, Answer Key
Archive Website Tutorials
- Brno Moravian Provincial Archives Online - Instruction, Activity, Answer Key
- Litoměřice Archives Online - Instruction, Activity, Answer Key
- Opava Archive Online - Instruction, Activity, Answer Key
- Plzeň Archive Online - Instruction, Activity, Answer Key
- Prague Regional Archives Online - Instruction, Activity, Answer Key
- Třeboň Archive Online - Instruction, Activity, Answer Key
Note the following, as archive locations in the GenTeam gazetteer are listed in German rather than in Czech:
- Brno (Czech) = Brünn (German)
- Litoměřice (Czech) = Leitmeritz (German)
- Opava (Czech) = Troppau (German)
- Plzeň (Czech) = Pilsen (German)
- Prague (Czech) = Prag (German)
- Třeboň (Czech) = Wittingau (German)
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