Getting Started

Thanks for visiting my blog dedicated to the Kristufek surname and South Bohemian ancestry.

The Kristufek surname is a Czech variation of the name Christopher. As such, the surname is likely to have spontaneously come into use in different parts of Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary and therefore not everyone with the surname Kristufek is related.

This blog is primarily dedicated to the Kristufek surname and its origins in South Bohemia. In particular the towns of Talin, Smrkovice and Maletice. However, there were other locations where the surname Kristufek was common including Humpolec in Central Bohemia and Jablonica/Osuske in Western Slovakia.

If you are currently in the US and you have Kristufek in your family history, the part of the US you live in will help you in your genealogy search as different Kristufek families settled in different parts of the US.

If your Kristufek family can be traced to Illinois (especially Chicago), Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Nebraska, you are likely descended from Kristufeks of South Bohemia.

If your Kristufek family can be traced to New York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, you are likely descended from Kristufeks of Western Slovakia, especially Jablonica and Osuske.

For more information, please join our Kristufek Genealogy Group on Facebook or email me and I will be happy to share whatever information I have. This blog also includes many pages with detailed information on many of the Kristufek family lines. Use the search box in the upper left hand corner to find additional information about your ancestors.

Humpolec Kristufek Genealogy

Not all Kristufek families of South Bohemia came from the Pisek District. There were quite a few Kristufek families in Humpolec, South Bohemia in the 19th Century. The search in the area began with Frantisek Xaver Kristufek, a notable theology professor in Prague, born in Humpolec in 1842.

I decided to look up his birth record to see if I might be able to establish a connection to the other South Bohemian Kristufek lines and what I discovered in 1842 was a baby boom of Kristufeks. I also discovered that Frantisek Xaver appears to have been born on Nov 29, 1842, not Oct 28 as his wikipedia page says.

Here are some of the other Kristufek births that year in Humpolec. If you are a Kristufek from Humpolec, these may be your ancestors, or at least you have a good place to start your search:

Karel Kristufek, 25 Jan 1842
Parents: Jan Kristufek and Petronilla Matek

Maria Julia Kristufek, 9 Feb 1842
Parents: Augustin Kristufek and Maria Plata

Vojtech Kristufek, born 23 Apr 1842
Parents: Jan Kristufek and Josefa Kaspar

Johanna Kristufek, born 17 May 1842
Parents: Franz Kristufek and Katarina Stradal

Dominik Fiala, born 15 Jun 1842
Parents: Dominik Fiala and Frantiska Kristufek

Moneka Augustina Kristufek, born 4 Aug 1842
Parents: Arnost Kristufek and Karolina Babier

Marie Kristufek, born 8 Aug 1842
Parents: Mynek Kristufek and Anna Kristufek

Anastazie Kristufek, born 22 Aug 1842
Parents: Alexander Kristufek and Marie Slegla

Marie Kristufek, born 1 Sep 1842
Parents: Jozef Kristufek and Anna Hajek

Ferdinand Kristufek. born 23 Oct 1842
Parents: Ferdinand Kristufek and Karolina Kominka

Frantisek Carel Kristufek, born 29 Oct 1842
Parents: Jan Nepomuk Kristufek and Barbora Komrs

Catharina Kristufek, born 26 Nov 1842
Parents: Frantisek Kristufek and Josefa Komrs

Frantisek Xaver Kristufek, born 29 Nov 1842
Parents: Vaclav Kristufek and Marie Ambroz

Since Krystufek families seemed to spontaneously arrive in Talin and Maletice (3 miles apart) around the early 1700s, it starts to reason that they came from somewhere. Humplec is quite a distance away and it is more likely since both of those towns are within the Protivin Estates that it stands to reach they came from some other location within the same distruct. However, there are Krystufek people in Humpolec at least as early as 1675, when a Jan Krystufek was born there to Jiri and Suzana Krystufek on May 29, 1675. That is the earliest known record of anyone named Krystufek in the South Bohemian region.