Summary About Our Club & Our Web Page In English Language

Introduction

Dear Visitors,
on this web page we would like to provide you with all general information about our club and its activities. Information available herein is also a main summary of all available data concerning our Club which are published in English language.

Who we are, what the membership brings and how to become a member

Our Club is considered as a community association set up on non-commercial basis and is registered with the particular authorities. The Club was set up in 1968 and has had a successful history for more that past 40 years. In a long term the main concentration is given onto the area of heraldry and aristocratic (dynastic) genealogy of countries located in central eastern region (for further details please visit the following link).

Our Club specializes mainly in the following activities:

to join members (legal or individual persons) and allow cross discussions and interchange of information relating to the above mentioned objectives, arrange mutual communication and cooperation between professionals and non-specialists, between members with the same scholastic specialization, or between the members of Club and organizations which are highly significant for scholars in the area of heraldry and genealogy;
to provide scholars beginners that are part of a members of our Club with specialized support and all sorts of useful information; we also provide other interested persons/parties with a specialized background researches;
to issue Club's periodical and service web pages in order to provide members with a platform for their own publication activities and all sorts of relevant information for scholars;
to provide access to Club's periodicals archive;
to publish reprints of relevant heraldic-genealogic publications,
to offer members of the Club available thematic literature;
we also provide relevant information to public in the scope that we are able to.

Unfortunately, our Club does not have sufficient financial resources which could be located in order to provide commercially based services as mentioned above. Please bear in mind that these activities are also very time consuming. In case that you request such service, we would like to recommend you organizations providing such services on commercial basis. The following link lists an overview of organizations providing professionally such services.

What the Membership brings:

two free issues of Club's periodical per year (please note that our periodical is issued only in Czech language),
relevant support, services and information as already specified above.

Conditions for joining our Club:

annual payment of membership fee,
each member shall provided us with contact details which will be used only for our internal evidence and communication.

Registration fees for a membership in 2008 are as follows:

Czech nationality citizens = CZK 250
Foreign members - EU citizens = EUR 15
Foreign members - other countries = EUR 20 (or equivalent in local currency).

Please note that the membership fee should be paid to the Club's account IBAN: CZ61 0800 0000 0019 3228 3359, Swift code: GIBACZPX. The transaction fee for a payment processing is also covered by the applicant (option "OUR").

Club's contact details

Address:
KLUB PRO ČESKOU HERALDIKU A GENEALOGII
U Rajské zahrady 20
Praha 3 - Žižkov
PSČ 130 00
Czech Republic

Phone & fax: +420 608.607.260 (from 8:00 PM to 6:00 AM),
E-Mail: heraldika@email.cz,
Website: http://www.heraldica.cz,
Webmaster: Email,

Main communication language is Czech. English or German language is used very rarely.

Available Literature

We also offer available thematic bibliography (heraldic - genealogic literature), either in soft or digital version. The list of all given options can be reviewed on the following link. The majority of literary works is published in Czech language. There are only few exceptional pieces written in German.

If you are interested in purchasing one of the available literature, please send the total amount of the price given (including the postal fee) to the above provided Club's account number. Once the payment is received, the requested package will be sent to the address of the purchaser.

Important links on the Club's website

Articles Accessible on WWW,
Complete List of Our Publications with Table of Contents, Register and Sample Articles,
Frequently Asked Question & Description o heraldic and genealogic terminology (Adopt from Otto Educational Dictionary),
Overview of organizations providing professionally services,
Offer of available thematic bibliography (heraldic - genealogic literature),
Related WWW Links,
Search (heraldica.cz only),
Sitemap.

Warning: All information is available in Czech language only.