First Generation

1. Adolphe SVITAK (^) was born about 1850 in Komarov, Beroun District, Okres Pardubice (Central) Region, Bohemia (Czech Republic). Central Bohemia is the blue area surrounding the city of Praha (Prague). With an area of 11,014 km2, the Central Bohemian Region is the largest region of the Czech Republic, occupying 14% of its total area. The region has relatively diversified terrain. The highest point of the region is located on Tok hill (865 m) in Brdy Highlands in the southwestern part of the region. The lowest point of the region is situated on the water surface of the Elbe River near Dolní Beřkovice.

The region is divided into two landscape types. The northeastern part is formed by the Polabí lowlands with a high share of land being used for agricultural purposes and deciduous forests. The southwestern part of the region is hilly with coniferous and mixed forests. Important rivers in the region are Elbe,  Vltava, Berounka, Jizera and Sázava. . He died before October 1904 at the age of 54 in Bohemia (Czech Republic). His wife was listed as a widow on the passenger manifest when she emigrated to America.

Adolphe SVITAK (^) and Anna Koucka KOUTSKA (^) were married about 1874 in Bohemia (Czech Republic). The 1910 Census indicated that she had 7 children, of whom 7 were still living.

(In the Czech Republic, it was a custom that, although a man would use the surname spelling of "Svitak," a woman would use "Svitakova." The woman would retain the "ova" ending until she married. An exception is the Czech tennis professional, Martina Navratilova, who retained the "ova" ending in her surname.) Anna Koucka KOUTSKA (^) was born in 1851 in Komarov, Beroun District, Okres Pardubice (Central) Region, Bohemia (Czech Republic). She was listed as age 51 when she emigrated in 1904. The 1910 Census listed her birth place as "Aust. Bohemian." (This is a map of Bohemia, which was located in the western part of the former Czechoslovakia, now Czechia.) She emigrated in October 1904 from Bohemia (Czech Republic). She, her daughter Anna and son John departed from Bremen, Germany on the "S.S. Rhein" and arrived in the port of Baltimore on 22 October 1904. She was listed as a widow, and the passenger manifest indicates that her passage was paid by a brother-in-law. Her other children may have emigrated before she did. She appeared in the census in 1910 in Curtis Bay, Baltimore (Independent City), MD. She was living with her daughter Anna and her family. Anna died in 1912 at the age of 61 in Curtis Bay, Baltimore (Independent City), MD. She was buried in 1912 in Brooklyn Park, Anne Arundel County, MD. in the Holy Cross Cemetery. (Her surname may have been "Koucka.")

Adolphe SVITAK (^) and Anna Koucka KOUTSKA (^) had the following children: