And... now... We're back to researching Krucemburk!

I researched and e-mailed city and Moravian regional authorities, then the archives around Kreuzberk, Czech Republic - with no records being found of the Zvolanek family.  To clarify the search for the archivist I e-mailed him a copy of Great-Uncle Joseph's Austrian passport, which shows information identical to Uncle Jim's Austrian passport.  It's good that I now have TWO Uncles' information to cross-check the facts!

This morning I received this e-mail from Zdenek Kravar, archivist from the Kreuzberk area:

Hello Denise,

from the copy of the passport of your Great Uncle is the identification of Kreuzberg clear. The place is today Krucemburk and is not in Moravia or Silesia, but in Bohemia.

You can find more information on this websites:

http://www.krucemburk.cz/

http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krucemburk

To find more information about your ancestors you must contact the regional archives in Zamrsk:

Státní oblastní archiv v Zámrsku

Zámek 1
565 43

Zámrsk

Fax: 465 503 117

E-mail: podatelna@archivzamrsk.cz
Www: http://www.archivzamrsk.cz

Sincerely

Zdenek Kravar

I will once again focus my search for our Great-Grandparents and Great-Great Grandparents in the area of Krucemburk.  We had stopped briefly there to research during our May visit, but there were no archives open that day.  (From Krucemburk it was a very short drive to where Grandfather had briefly lived in the town of Stare Ransko.) 


Great thanks to Zdenek for supplying the much-needed e-mail connections.

I have now sent requests to the archives in Zamrsk for any information they can provide about our branch of the Zvolanek family.
Once step backward, two steps forward...  onward we go.