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My father gave me a birth certificate of someone whom he thought was his mother but the name did not correspond with what he thought was her name. The name on the birth certificate says "Bozena" Nemecek althought he thought her first name was Helen. On reading the birth certificate further the mothers name was also listed as "Bozena". Is this a first name or indication of female sex? The family was said to have been on Czechoslovakian ancestry.
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My husbands late Grandmother had the exact name "Bozena" however, the name she answered to was Helen. She was born in Croatia and came to the US at the age of six. After looking into his family history more I found this was not an uncommon name in Croatia. You should look into the Croation connection.
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Hmmm
Bozena is definitely a Czech given name. It is derived from the Slavic word for God and literally means of God.
However, and that is a pretty wild guess, bozena, being an adjective, might have been used on a birth certificate to denote "a child of god". Something along the lines of in the year of God 1897, on the nth day of so-and-so month, God's child Helena Nemecek was born to parents so-and-so and his wife.... If that is the case, I would guess bozena is followed by your grandmother's first, middle and last name.
Having written that fiction-like paragraph, most likely your grandmother's name was Bozena, but she changed it to Helen when she came to the US.
Bozena is definitely a Czech given name. It is derived from the Slavic word for God and literally means of God.
However, and that is a pretty wild guess, bozena, being an adjective, might have been used on a birth certificate to denote "a child of god". Something along the lines of in the year of God 1897, on the nth day of so-and-so month, God's child Helena Nemecek was born to parents so-and-so and his wife.... If that is the case, I would guess bozena is followed by your grandmother's first, middle and last name.
Having written that fiction-like paragraph, most likely your grandmother's name was Bozena, but she changed it to Helen when she came to the US.
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Bozena is a Slavic name, mostly used for Czech girls, I think. It probably means "blessed".
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