User:Nrodovsky

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My name
I'd like to provide a little bit of disambiguation about my own name. ;) As indicated by my account name my last name is Rodovsky, and I'm working on writing a Wikipedia article about Czech alchemist Bavor Rodovský, however I'd like to reassure readers that I'm perhaps more objective about Bavor Rodovský as a subject than at first appears, because I myself was actually adopted by a woman who married a Rodovsky, and I never knew my would-have-been adoptive father because he died five years before I was born.  So I have less of a connection to the Rodovsky name and history than the rest of my family does, and I'll be very careful to be objective in my writing.

Projects I'm Involved in
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Learning Wikipedia
Links I need:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Introduction

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Your_first_article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Underconstruction

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography

/Sandbox

Interests
(Modeled on my LJ interests list.) Accountability, Adoption, Alpine skiing, Angels, Anime, Archaeology, Art, Aztec, Beading, Blue topaz, Camping, Caring, Roman Catholicism, Cats, Centering prayer, Chaucer, Chocolate, Clairvoyance, Clarity, Commitment, Community, Contemplative prayer, Conversation, Cooking, Corey Hart, Correspondence, Courage, Creative Writing, Creativity, Cryptozoology, Cuddling, Curry dishes, Dave Matthews Band, Disabled Olympics, Dutch, Edward R. Murrow, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Ethics, Fantasy fiction, Farscape, Femininity, Fiction, Freedom, Gardening, Gary Jennings, Glass etching, Gor, Guy Gavriel Kay, Herb gardens, History, Holland, Honor, Jacqueline Carey, Jane Austin, John Lange, John Milton, John Norman, Journalism, Kenneth Branagh, Kevin Smith, Languages, Massage, Meditation, Men, Mexico, Music, Mythology, Nahuatl, NaNoWriMo, Nederland, Newspapers, Nonfiction, Pacific Northwest, Passion, Philosophy, Plato, Print Journalism, Prose, Pullman, Reading, The Red Cross, Reiki, Religion, Religions, Rembrandt Van Rijn, Robert A. Heinlein, Russia, Russian, SARK, Science Fiction, Seattle, Singing, Soccer, South Park, Spirituality, Storms, The Daily Evergreen, Theology, Thomas Keating, Thomas Merton, Tiger lilies, TPE, We're not afraid, Wheelchair tennis, Writing, Washington State University.

Web Presence
I'm one of the minority of people who have a service cat, as opposed to a service dog, so my service cat has his own blog: http://servicecat.blogspot.com

My Elfwood page: http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/libr/r/o/rodovsky

Languages
I'm still learning to use the Wikipedia Babel box.

I'm a native speaker of English, Dutch is my second major language but I don't write it well, I studied French, poorly, in high school, and I've learned some Russian through immersion in Moscow but am always looking to learn more. I'm currently learning conversational Arabic with the help of a neighbor friend.



Wikipedia articles I've written
None yet! I'm working on one in my sandbox at this time!

Important edits to this page
I've moved the Joseph Duncan discussion to my talk page.

Myslív Characters
Hi, thanks for messaging me. Some of my mom's family came from Myslív and I've been needling through records of the population for a few years. I just finished transcribing all the available marriage records and all the vital records up to 1730. If you want some help let me know. I think some of the oldest names in the village are Santora, Nohacek, Pavelec, Cibulka, Zezulka, Rada, Mukla, Kral, Koncal, and a bunch of other names from surrounding villages. Unfortunately I don't really know much information before the parish records start, only some historical facts about the country. I'm also pretty sure the village was devoutly Catholic for most of its history moreso than other areas and the period of Protestantism is a mystery. Supposedly after the war the country's population went down because protestants fled to Germany. There's one guy who I think was from Blizanovy and moved to America in the early 1600's who might've been protestant, but really, most protestants I know of centralized around South Bohemia and Moravia. There was a significant Helvetian revival in the mid 1800's around the parish of Teleci but you don't see that sorta thing in the Klatovy district.