Our Kleisner ancestors in Bohemia, with a chart and research findings

Our grandfather’s youngest brother, whose descendants include many of our living cousins in Czechia and Slovakia

A profile of our grandfather’s youngest sister, whose descendants still live in Ježovy

The Kleisner Family

A chart of our Kleisner cousin connections in Europe, with photographs and stories

Memories from the five meetings of the Klaisner and Kleisner families, four in Europe and one over Zoom

This is the main page for the Kleisner Czech ancestors and cousins of Laurel and Lowell. They are related to our paternal grandfather, who was born Václav Kleisner in Ježovy in 1872. After emigrating to Chicago in 1891, he “Americanized” his name, changing the spelling to Vaclav Klaisner. Click on any of the links below to explore further.

The house history of our grandfather’s residence in Jeźovy

For Further Research on the Kleisner Line in Europe

  1. Research and create pages for the other two Vaclav Kleisner siblings that had offspring. Extend the lines and try to locate contemporary cousins.

    1. Barbara Kleisner (1876-?), m. Petr Bosek

    2. Magdalena Kleisner (1880-?), m1. Josef Maly, m2. Vaclav Maly

  2. Research the early Bohemian records to extend the Kleisner line further back from Martin Kleisner (1704-?). See Kleisner Genealogy page.

  3. Dive deeper into the Kleisner DNA matches on MyHeritage.

  4. Collaborate with known Kleisner cousins in Europe.

    1. Jan Kuzník, distant Kleisner cousin. Laurel met him in person at the 2022 and 2024 Ježovy Reunions, which he helped organize. His tree is on MyHeritage.

    2. Libor Klenovsky, grandson of Petr Kleisner through Jaroslav Klenovsky. Laurel met him in person at the Bratislava Reunion in 2019. His tree is on MyHeritage.

    3. Viliam Fiedler, gr-gr-gransdon of Petr Kleisner through Ladislav Kleisner. Laurel met him in person at the 2024 Jeźovy Reunion. His tree is on MyHeritage.

  5. Connect with other Kleisner cousins in Europe.

    1. Svatopluk Vagner, gr-grandson of Petr Kleisner through Jaroslav Klenovsky. His tree is on MyHeritage.

Kleisner Research Aids

How are all the Kleisners in Ježovy connected?

Lists the members of the five Kleisner households
in the 1880 and 1890 Ježovy censuses.

Who were the Bohemian ancestors of grandfather
Vaclav Kleisner/Klaisner?

Lists pedigree lines in Bohemia back to the 8th generation.

Link to a spreadsheet containing these two lists