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BREAKING NEWS (January 28, 2013)

Grant awarded for Czech and Slovak folklife festival
The  Prince George County Regional Heritage Center, in conjunction  with the Virginia  Czech/Slovak Heritage Society, was recently awarded a  grant from the Virginia  Foundation for Humanities. The project will include a series of oral history  interviews, digitization of historic  documents and a one-day cultural festival  to be held this October. The focus will be on the Virginia Czech and Slovak  community's musical and culinary  traditions. If you would like to be a part of  the effort or have  historical items to share, please contact us. Read more  about the grant program. 

Roadside marker unveiled at Church of the Sacred   Heart

A roadside marker as installed in December to commemorate the  community  of New Bohemia in Prince George, Virginia. Photos from the ceremony  can  be viewed on the Progress-Index website.

ABOUT OUR ORGANIZATION: 
Between 1885 and 1920, over 700 Slavic families came from either  Western states or directly from Eastern Europe to settle in Virginia.  The  greatest number  settled in the counties of Prince George, Dinwiddie, and  Chesterfield counties surrounding Petersburg, Virginia, mostly on farmlands that  had been abandoned  after the battles of the American Civil War that had raged in  the area.  Others  settled in Charles City, Hanover, Henrico, Greensville, New  Kent and other
counties of Virginia. 
 
 
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Our Members are


Descendants of (or  interested in) the 
Czech/Slovaks who settled in the  State of Virginia, 
including the counties of Dinwiddie,  Chesterfield,   
Greensville, Henrico, Hanover, 
New Kent, Prince George and Surry
between 1885 and
1920.

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Our Mission is to
Discover, Document and Promote
Our  Czech/Slovak
Heritage



 


We do this by:

Building a "virtual library" of all  available books, newspaper articles and  other materials (See Bibliography  Project).

Documenting genealogical  information of all area Czech/Slovaks (See Village/Database Project) in order to  help families re-connect. 

Sponsoring events (Recipe Collection,  Christmas Celebration, Easter Event, Farm and Cemetery Tours) that promote our  Heritage (food, customs,
folkdress, religion).

Encouraging knowledge of  Czech/Slovak language and
phrases, assistance in translating family  documents.

Encouraging visits to family villages in Slovakia, the Czech  Republic, and Romania. 

"Giving back" to our ancestral homelands in  thankfulness for our rich heritage (tours, continuting contact with our  relatives, fund-raisers,  charitable contributions).

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