Do my Ancester's town still exist and where do I go to do research?

Answered by Heino Kaestner , Praha, Czech Republic

ok, now i try the 3rd time to post this: johanneshütte/janska hut exists only as a field name anymore. it became part of mostek/schwanenbrückl which is nowadays a part of rybnik nad radbuzou/waier, about 1 hour from plzen, near domazlice/taus. i think mostek only contains of 1 or 2 houses nowadys due expulsion of the sudenten germans after ww2 and the communist times after when it was border region.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rybn%C3%ADk_nad_Radbuzou
http://www.obecni-urad.net/source/index.php?ID=9837

you can find out more in the archives of the western bohemia region in plzen or in the archives of the cadastre register in klatovy. if searching for your ancestors you need to know, that for sometime, schwanenbrückl was part of the parish region mutterndorf/mutenin. good for you, almost all registers are available:

http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/SUD/kb/muttersdorf.html
http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/SUD/kb/waier.html

or try and ask those guys, i got almost all the information from their page. i can see both names on the index, rosnitschek and zeug.

http://www.bischofteinitz.de/orte/johanneshuette.htm
http://www.bischofteinitz.de/familienforschung.htm