Mike,

I may have already passed this info on to you. If so please bear with me. My wife's mother is a Brom. Her father was named Albert and his father was named Jan/John. John was the originally immigrant to this country. They all settled/lived in the Moulton/Praha Texas area. Family information indicates that Jan Brom had a brother, Jakub/Jacob who originally lived in Praha area but who moved later after arriving in this country north to the Scurry County area of Texas. He was said to have lived in a small town near Synder called Hermleigh. On the way back from a spring break trip to New Mexico last week my wife and I stopped in Synder, the county seat, to try to verify Jakub's existence there. We are looking for the place in the CR that the Brom's came from as well so we were hopeful that there might be some information there that would identify the village of origin. We did locate Jakub's death certificate and there on the form it indicated that Jakub was from Netolice near Cesky Krumlov in Southern Bohemia. The information on the death certificate was given by someone named Anton Brom, who we guess may have been a son. We also visited Hermleigh and found the family gravesite. Jakub is buried there with his wife Anna, a daughter named Annie and another daughter named Frances. We are having a gentlemen search in the CR for us to locate the Brom's. This information will help us pinpoint his search to a smaller area.