My mom’s side of the family has a list of what ethnicities we have. Bohemian and Czechoslovakian are both on that list as completely separate ethnicities. Recently someone told me that they’re actually the exact same thing. I found sources confirming that, but I also found sources saying that Bohemia is a part of Czechoslovakia (an “all thumbs are fingers but not all fingers are thumbs” kind of situation). Then my ADHD got me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole before I could find a clear answer as to which is correct, and now my brain hurts too much to keep searching. Please help me.
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Modern Czechia comprises three historical provinces: Bohemia, Moravia, and [the Czech part of Silesia, with Silesia overall being mostly Polish]. Bohemia is basically Prague and northwestern Czechia, Moravia is Brno and the southeast, and Silesia is a narrow strip along the border with Poland.
I dunno if you had one ancestor who said he was Bohemian and another who said he was Czechoslovak, or if it was the same guy, and sometimes he said Bohemian, and other times Czechoslovak. Or maybe the list was just compiled when Czechoslovakia was still a thing, and some social-studies teacher insisted you had to pick a country from the almanac and Bohemia wasn’t in there.
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