Our Ancestral Bohemian Geography

The top map is from Mapquest.com and shows our family area (marked with red star) as southwest in location to Prague (shown as Praha on map). Bohemia today is known as the Czech Republic. On someone else's family genealogy site I found a closeup map of Kasejovice that I believe is fairly recent. To the southeast is an area labeled as Blatna (word is cutoff bottem right edge of image). On the western edge of that area called Blatna, is the town Vrbno. I believe these to be the towns of our ancestors according to the information I have that is shared below.

Kasejovice
Word of mouth from Louise has told us that this is the name of the town/village where her mother, Aloysia, lived. This would also be the last known residence of Aloysia's parents, Albert Vodicka and Anna Kahodnik, and any of their remaining children. Kasejovice is located southwest of Prague.

Vrbno (within area of Blatna)
In a box of photos that belonged to Louise, she had a piece of note paper that indicated she thought her father had come from Blatna. We also know from Louise that the Drab family came from Vrbno. This is confirmed in the notes provided with the 1909 portrait of Frank's Uncle John and family that states the family was from Vrbnv.

In the notes from Barbara's memories the story goes that both Frank & Aloysia were from Bohemia but did not meet until they were both in New York. When they met, it was a charming coincedence that they were from villages that were quite close to one another. Chances were though, that they never would have met in Bohemia because the two villages did not share a common marketplace. The two towns listed above seem to meet the proximity criteria of this story.