page_title: Myslív
section_title: Genealogy and immigration to America
hierarchical_section_title: Myslív / Genealogy and immigration to America
caption_attribution_description: USS Susquehanna (ID-3016) was underway
context_page_description: Myslív is a village and municipality in the Klatovy District of the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. The municipality covers an area of 15.74 square kilometres, and has a population of 426. Myslív lies approximately 22 kilometres east of Klatovy, 40 km south of Plzeň, and 96 km south-west of Prague. From the mid 1800s to early 1900s, more than 100 of its inhabitants have been documented as immigrating to America.
  Subvillages: Loužná, Milčice, Nový Dvůr, Draha
  Other villages that historically attended its parish: Nehodiv, Kovčín, Pohoří, Polánka, Štipoklasy, Strážovice, Chlumy, Bližanovy, Klikařov, Neurazy, Vojovice, and various hamlets/mills. Strážovice changed to the Těchonice parish, Chlumy changed to the Kvášňovice parish, and the latter 4 villages later attended Neurazy's parish. Kovčín temporarily attended the Nepomuk parish for part of the 18th century.
context_section_description: Because of increased immigration due to the end of the Mexican-American War and start of the California Gold Rush, since the mid-1800s, about 135 people born in Myslív have been identified as moving to America along with many others from the general vicinity. The very first, possibly from the whole parish, might have been Jan "John" Duban (1820-1897) and his family who moved to Illinois side of the St. Louis area around 1851. Given that American Czechs were a significant minority, most of his children married people of German descent. Afterwards, immigration increased with the foundation of Norddeutscher Lloyd in 1857 through which a majority of Myslív's immigrants traveled by ship from Bremen to Baltimore.
  Duban was followed by the Tichacek family several years later (no known connection between the two). The Tichacek's temporarily lived in Myslív where one of their sons Alois was born in 1857. Shortly afterwards, they also moved to St. Louis. Immigration slowed for a time in the 1860s because of the American Civil War in which Duban served in the Union Army. Within a couple years after the war ended, people from Myslív poured in waves through the port of Baltimore. Many of those who settled in Baltimore nested in Little Bohemia and were early participants of the St. Wenceslaus Church. The Brozik and Zeman families moved to Iowa. Josefa Silovska, who married in Baltimore, was brought to Oklahoma City by her husband during the Land Rush of 1889. Frantiska Protivova's family and the Sevcik's moved to Minnesota. The Zoubkova sisters moved to Cook County, Illinois and Ohio.  Some of the Nocar's moved to Nebraska, Wisconsin, and Washington. The immigrants are listed as follows (women are paired with their maiden names):
caption: SS Rhein (converted to the USS Susquehanna)
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