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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This has been interesting. I was told growing up that my ancestry was Czech, but someone at the Library of Congress (which has great maps of the area, over years) told me we were probably Slovak (based on our name). The expert said that background was sometimes denied/hidden  because they were the less educated “peasants”

I have heard Prague is wonderful.

Tiny Slovenia is great for tourists. Lubijana is walkable and charming. Lake Bled is magical.

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PP.  Depending on when your family emigrated, the country may have been Czechoslovakia which abbreviates to Czech.

My grandma also said her family was Czech.  They were from extreme Western Slovakia right up the hill from today's border with Moravia in the Czech Republic.  In the ancestral village, they speak Czech-influenced Slovak.  At time of emigration in 1903, their home was part of the Kingdom of Hungary within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, while the Czech provinces with similar borders to today reported to Austria.  My grandmother's family was quite proud of the emergence of the combined Czechoslovakian state.  They raised money to help the combined homeland cause in the late 1910s-early 1920s.  They were Lutherans so were a religious minority in Slovakia (mainly Catholic).

Long story short, your family might have sort of been "Czech" in a sense depending on the time period.

If you look online (Ancestry) for draft records for WWI or citizenship papers, you may find birthplace information that will resolve the home village and thus the national identity question based on today's definitions.

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