This book is the second in a series about the genealogy of the Francis and Caroline Wit Hlinak family. The first covered the Wit, Duchon, and Johanek families. Francis Hlinak’s family history is covered in this book. The authors are Susan J. Hlinak and Richard W. Pike. Sue is the daughter of Francis Hlinak, and Dick is his son-in-law.Large groups of Czech immigrants came to this country in the late 1850s through the 1880s. Wenzel Herold followed his older brother Joseph, who had emigrated in 1871. Wenzel married Josephine Kashik on February 3, 1886. Joseph and Veronica Kropacek Novak along with their four children arrived on the ship, Atlantic, in New York on September 26, 1866. John and Catherine Nuhlicek Hlinak and their six children arrived in New York on June 13, 1874.The families settled alongside Czech immigrants in Kewaunee and Manitowoc counties in Wisconsin and gave the new communities names from the old country, such as Melnik, Pilsen, and Slovan.The authors’ research included internet searches; and numerous visits to historical societies, courthouses, libraries, museums, and cemeteries; and documents, letters, scrapbooks, and pictures from descendants of the Kashiks, Herolds, Novaks, and Hlinaks.