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Gazetteer of Austrian, Czech, Slovak and Slovenian Republic 

In this database you will find about 76.000 locations in Austria (with South Tirol) and in the Czech, Slovak and Slovenian republics. It contains former and present names of locations, current and former parish affiliation, year that existing records begin, archival districts, and political districts or crownland.

If you are uncertain about the correct spelling of a location, you may also search for a portion of its name. This will produce a larger number of results, and also to the correct village. 

For example: Langendorf

• "Is" will generate 9 hits in the database
• "Starts with" will generate 11 , also ie Langendörflas
• "Contains" will generate 19 results, also ie Neu Langendorf or Unter Langendorf 

Members of different lodges

This register of about 16.500 Members of different lodges between 1783 and 1938 is only a start to store important biographical information. Below, you will find a listing of the different lodges. Additional listings are in preparation.

Index of the Roman Catholic Baptisms for Vienna and its surroundings between 1585 and 1918

Beginning of the project: October 2012

In the 19^th century approximately 3,5 million people from all the countries of the Habsburg Monarchy (and beyond) moved to Vienna. In 1910 Vienna’s population was approximately 2.1 million. Vienna was then the sixth largest city in the world. Almost all families in the monarchy had family connections to the city of Vienna.

Between 1784 and 1900 approximately 4-6 million children were born in Vienna. Unfortunately, to date there still is no central birth registry for Vienna besides the Jewish Birth Registry already published on www.GenTeam.eu.

In cooperation with Vienna parish offices, we have now begun to create this missing index and post it online. We will favor the Districts 1 – 9 for the years 1784 – 1900, even though parallel parish registers were started in other districts. Also, additional issues of various parishes are already work in progress. We review the existing indices; subsequently they will be rearranged on transparencies, compared with the original entries and then corrected as needed. Thus, the quality of the index will be assured. At this time are approximately 2,59 million entries available.

The following individuals have collaborated in this project: 

Mag. Wolfgang Altfahrt, Martina Ecker, Karin Fleisch, Felix Gundacker, Helga Hörmann, Debbie Kaska, Gabi Koller, Eva Korbl, Monika Kornberger, Elisabeth Kultscher, Georg Kummerfeldt, Cindy Lindau, Thomas Lobner, Georg Marlovits, Alexander Masak, Daniela Mathuber, Leo Mayer, Lisi Maxa, Marta Melchart, Mag. Leo Mittringer, Suzanne Morris, Georgine Nitsch, Dr. Günter Oppitz, Angelika Panser, Marco Puhr, Regina Puschelik, Andrea Reiter, Ernst Schroth, Ingrid Schuh, Gerda Smodej,Franz Spevacek, Jesko Stampa, Judith Starke, HR DI Leopold Strenn, Mag. Wolfgang Strnad, Wolfgang Sturm, Heidi Sugden, Margarethe Tetzl, Walter Thurner, Mireille Trauner, Margit Urbanek, Christine Weiß und Werner Zinser.

The parish registers will be available online in the near future; some are free of charge already partially accessible at www.matricula-online.eu. Thus, the researcher has relatively quick access to the original entries, even though here and there might be multiple entries.

I invite you all to help with this fascinating project. Neither travel nor visits to parish offices are required; the indices can be furnished in digital form. There are only a few typed indices, fewer beautifully hand-written and some not so beautiful hand-written indices available; however, I am sure, there will be something for everybody who is interested in helping.

If you have any questions or if I can be of further assistance, please contact me at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Kind regards,

Felix Gundacker

Index of Roman Catholic marriages of Vienna between 1542 and 1938

As the capital of the Austrian-Hungarian Dual Monarchy, Vienna grew considerably during the 19th century: from about 215.000 inhabitants in 1800 up to more than 2.1 million in 1910. Many migrated to Vienna, especially from the crown lands, and left here their genealogical tracks or never left Vienna.

It is not easy to find a marriage in Vienna because of the large number of parishes within its boundaries.

This database contains about 961.000 records from all parishes of present-day Vienna, surrounding communities, and from the military.

The indices of the records of the districts 1-5, 1780-1850, are from the "Index Nominum ex libris copulatorum Vindobinensibus" from Herbert A. Mansfeld and Hans Bergauer, and could be stored with the honest allowance of the society "Heraldische Gesellschaft Adler" (http:///www.adler-wien.at/).

The columns are:

• continuing number - for possible references
• surname
• given name (not in some parishes of the first district before 1780)
• year (not in some less cases)
• parish (with number of the district; XX is military; NÖ is Lower Austria)
• page in the related book

All records are online at: www.matricula-online.eu. Military records (beginning with XX) are not online; they only are available in the Austrian Military Archives.

CAUTION: this databases may not be free of errors !

Co-worker of this project: Dr. Andreas Dutz, Felix Gundacker, Claudia Heres, Gabi Koller, Georg Marlovics, Dr. Günter Oppitz, Henrick Schwam, Franz Spevacek, Jesko Stampa, HR DI Leopold Strenn and DI Wolfgang Wasserburger

Index of the Jewish Records of Vienna

This index was made by Mr. DI Georg Gaugusch ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), Mrs. Traude Triebel ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and Felix Gundacker ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and contains births and marriages since 1826, deaths since 1866, all up to 1910.

Die Ziviltrauungen in Wien zwischen 1870 und 1920

Die Möglichkeit einer Notzivilehe wurde durch das Reichsgesetzblatt Nr. 49 vom 25. Mai 1868 ab dem Jahr 1870 geschaffen und galt bis zur Übernahme des Deutschen Ehegesetzes, das ab 1. August 1938 in Österreich die Zivilehe ermöglichte. Da der §64 des AGBG aus dem Jahr 1811 nicht aufgehoben wurde, musste ein christlicher Teil zuerst aus der Kirche austreten (konfessionslos), während für einen jüdischen Teil die Trauungsverweigerung eines Rabbiners genügte.

Für diese Notziviltrauungen wurden eigene Matriken angelegt, die in einer Zweitschrift im Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv unter Wahrung des Personenstandsgesetzes eingesehen werden können. Frau Univ.Doz. Dr. Anna Lea Staudacher hat diese Ziviltrauungen in Wien zwischen 1870 und 1908 (Bücher 1-5) erfasst und diese Datenbank GenTeam zur Verfügung gestellt. Für die freundliche Genehmigung der Heraldisch-Genealogischen Gesellschaft „Adler“, Wien, möchte ich mich an dieser Stelle herzlich bedanken. Weiterführende Hinweise und Erklärungen finden Sie in den bei Adler zu beziehenden Heften der Jahre 2007 bis 2010.

Georg Gaugusch hat im Juni 2017 und Jänner 2019 GenTeam weitere Indexe für die Jahre 1909 bis 1920 zur Verfügung gestellt. Die Datei „Magistrat Ehe Band 06-10“ umfasst die Trauungsakten mit den Nummern 3647-6286 und entspricht den Bänden 6-10 der Magistratsehen-Zweitschriften (B3/6 bis B3/9). Die Datei „Magistrat Ehe Band 11-12“ umfasst den Index zu Akten mit den Zahlen 6287-7283. Der Band 13 umfasst den Index zu Akten mit den Zahlen 7284-9007. . Diese Zahlen entsprechen den Bänden 11 und 13, die sich aber nicht im Archiv befinden.

Resignations from the Jewish Community in Vienna between 1868 and 1914

About 18.000 resignations from the Jewish community between 1868 and 1914 show us the change of time in Vienna. Some of them have been baptised, a view didn´t belong to any denomination. Sources of this database, important for so many historians and genealogists, have been the official resignations and the leaving-protocols of the Jewish Community Vienna City, Ottakring and Sechshaus. Further information has been used: records of the Jewish Community, Roman Catholic and Protestant Church as well as Civil records, the proselyte protocols of the JC and protocols of Surname-changes of the Niederösterreichische Statthalterei.

WStLa/mba directs the user to the protocol-number of the resignation, to find in the Viennese City Archives. mba and the number after means district office and the number of the district. If another location is named, the leaving will be found there. In the ros IKG the user will find year and number of the protocol.

A lot of further information, especially of baptisms and biographies, can be found in the printed version.

Converts in Vienna

Between 1782 and 1868 more than 3000 Jews converted in Vienna. Together with the baptized jewish foundlings 6000, up to 1914 more than 18000 left Judaism, mostly poor people, later, in the second half of the 19th century mostly better educated, belonging to the middle class and grande bourgeoisie, also many intellectuals, artists, musicians and writers.

This database was generated from two two-volume books by Anna L. Staudacher, with the kind allowance of Peter Lang international academic publishers :
- Jüdische Konvertiten in Wien 1782-1868 (2001, 460+732 pages - 3000 converts - printed version here  ISBN 3-631-39406-3)
- Jüdisch-protestantische Konvertiten in Wien 1782-1914 (2004, 495+838 pages - 6000 converts - printed version here ISBN 3-631-50413-6)

Genealogical details, as parents of the converts, baptized spouse and children can be found in the printed version.

In addition see also the databases Foundling baptizms, Resignations and Civil marriages.
Further informations about the project Jewish Converts in Austria and publications here

Foundling Baptisms in Vienna Between 1816 And 1868

Between 1816 and 1868 more than 3.300 children of Jewish mothers have been baptized under compulsion in the Foundling Home  in Alservorstadt, Vienna.  Until 1843, each child also received a different  surname  after separation from its mother.   By the age of ten, the child could leave the Foundling Home.   If a mother wanted to see her child within these 10 years of the Foundling Home, she had to be baptized also.   Most mothers came from the poverty-stricken strata of Bohemia, Moravia and Hungary.

The sources of the protocols can be found in the Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv (Viennese City and County Archive).

Further information can be found in the printed version.

Medical Doctors from Vienna

The graduation protocols for the years  1818-1934 (with the exception of volume 1934-1938) as well as the  doctorial protocols from 1821-1941 of the medical faculty of the University of Vienna, which were  kept by the rectory were completely evaluated.  Furthermore, all nationalities of Jewish members of the medical faculties were extracted independently every eighth winter semester (WS 1866-67, WS 1871/71, WS 1874/75 and so on) beginning with the  winter semester 1862/67 through the winter semesters 1938/39. Only the basic data of persons listed will be made public according to the laws of the Austrian Civil Registries.

Sources exctracted with permission from the University of Vienna– Medical Faculty

• 134 – Catalogue for nationalities / studies 1862-1938
• 170 – Doctorial Protocol    1821-1871
• 175 – Graduation Protocol   1818-1840
• 176 – Graduation Protocol   1840-1854
• 177 – Doctorial Protocol    1872-1894
• 181 – Graduation Protoco    1854-1865
• 182 – Graduation  Protocol  1865-1873
• 186 – Graduation Protocol   1874-1890
• 187 – Graduation Protocol   1890-1894
• 188 – Graduation Protocol   1894-1898
• 189 – Graduation Protocol   1898-1904
• 190 – Graduation Protocol   1904-1912
• 191 – Graduation Protocol   1912-1919
• 192 – Graduation Protocol   1919-1923
• 193 – Graduation Protocol   1923-1929
• 194 – Graduation Protocol   1929-1941
• 195 – Doctorial Protocol    1894-1910
• 196 – Doctorial Protocol    1903-1930
• 197 – Doctorial Protocol    1922-1934

The spelling of surnames were transcribed literally (or) to the letter from original documents.

The spelling of names of cities and townships were proved for correctness and listed in the current  spelling.

When a year is enclosed  in parenthesis (), it stands for the year of reference.

The author of this article can be reached under the following email address This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Index of Roman Catholic Vital Statistics (church records) 

This database contains records of different parishes of Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Burgenland, Steiermark/Styria, Carinthia, Salzburg, Tyrol, Bohemia, Moravia, Austrian Silesia and Germany.

This database will be updated continually.

The records contain:

• parish

• code

• • 1 = baptisms
  • 2 = marriages
  • 3 = burials

• date/year
• surname
• first name
• parents/additional information
• age
• address
• name, parents, additional information, age, address of marriage partner

Current Records of the following parishes are listed below:

Burials on Viennese Jewish Cemeteries

This database was produced by Mr. Mag. Walter Pagler and contains Zentralfriedhof door 1 and 4, Währing and Floridsdorf. Caution: The database contains errors ! Corrections to the database of Cemetery Floridsdorf were done by Mrs. Traude Triebel.

"Wer einmal war" - The Jewish Grand Bourgoisie of Vienna 1800-1938

This database is an index to the book by Georg Gaugusch: "Wer einmal war" - The Jewish Grand Bourgoisie of Vienna 1800-1938, published by the Amalthea-Publishing House.

The first volume with the letters A-K appeared in print in November 2011, contains 1.700 pages and covers about 250 families (ISBN: 978-3850027502).

You can find more information about this project at www.jewishfamilies.at

Index of Protestant Vital Statistics (church records)

This database contains records of the Protestant Church in Bratislava, Slovak Republic.

The records contain:

parish

• code
  • 2 = marriages
• date/year
• surname
• first name
• parents/additional information
• age
• address
• name, parents, additional information, age, address of marriage partner
  
  here you will find a listinf of the parishes

Index of Jewish records

This database contains records of different Jewish communities. Until now, only records of communities of Moravia and Bohemia can be found. But soon, entries of communities of other crown lands will be added.

The records contains:

• Jewish Community
• Code
  • 1 = births
  • 2 = marriages
  • 3 = burials
• Date/Year
• Lastname
• Firstname
• Parents/Additional information
• Age
• Address
• Lastname, Firstname, Parents, Age, Address of Marriage Partner

Until now, then following records of the Jewish communities can be found:

To get the email addresses of the authors plase contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Index of seignorial records

This database contains records of different dominions of Lower Austria.
This database will be updated continually. You get a listing of all dominions in the help-botton after a registration.

The records contain:

parish

• code
  • 5 = penalty records
  • 6 = seignorial marriage records
  • 7 = Urbar
  • 8 = Grundbuch
  • 9 = Inventur und Abhandlung
  • 10 = Kauf
  • 11 = Gewähr
  • 12 = Erbserklärungen, Quittungen und Vergleiche
  • 13 = Releases
    
  • 14 = Other
• date/year
• surname
• first name
• parents/additional information
• age
• address
• name, parents, additional information, age, address of marriage partner

The author can be reached at:

• Gundacker Felix ; site: www.felixgundacker.at
• Gundacker Felix ; site: www.ihff.at
• Hasenzagl Mathias; email: Mathias.Hasenzagl[at]googlemail.com
• Scharrer Karin; email: karin.scharrer[at]liwest.at
• Schuster Mag. Ingrid; aon913631229[at]aon.at
• Tietz Christoph; email: christoph.titz[at]chello.at
• Vyka Jaroslav; site: www.sudetengenealogy.eu
  
  

Obituaries in the "Neue Freie Presse", Vienna 1864-1938

The Austrian National Library scanned some of the Viennese daily newspapers which can be viewed via internet at: http://anno.onb.ac.at/

Obituaries in the „Pester Lloyd“ 1878-1910

Mr. Georg Gaugusch ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) has now created – as a first step – a database of the obituaries of the „Pester Lloyd“, Budapest, between 1878 and 1910 (except: middle 1888 – end 1890), with surname, given name, maiden name, date of publication, date of death, religion, age and place of publication.

Beginning with 1891, these obituaries are also online at http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=pel

Obituaries in the "Prager Tagblatt", Prague, 1877-1938

The Austrian National Library scanned some of the newspapers of the former Austrian-Hungarian Dual Monarchy, which can be viewed via internet at: http://anno.onb.ac.at

Mrs. Traude Triebel, Freddy Spielmann, Yoav Lahad and Georg Gaugusch have now created a database of all obituaries of the "Prager Tagblatt", Prague, between 1877 and 1938, which can be found by direct link to the issue of the newspaper.

The "Prager Tagblatt" was a Prague newspaper, but obituaries came from many families living in the cities of the crown lands.

 Obituaries in Tyrolian Newspapers 1815-1919

This database was created by Hans-Peter Haberditz. Most of the obituaries can be found in digital Newspaers of the sites of the Austrian National Library and the Tessmann-Library.

Current obituaries of the following newspares are listed below:

Skinners, hangmen and ushers in Continental Europe

The complete database was created by Mr. Reinhard Riepl. He can be reached at http://www.reinhardriepl.homepage.t-online.de/index.htm. Queries ONLY of scinners, hangmen and usher will be answered only in German.

Directory of all mills and mill-owner in Austria in 1876

Crownlands: Bohemia, Moravia, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Salzburg, Galicia, Bukovina, Carinthia, Dalmatia, k.k. Silesia, Tirol with Vorarlberg (and South Tirol), Styria, coastland and Krajna.

Biographical Lexikon Of Austria´s Empire By Dr. Constant von Wurzbach

Between 1856 through 1891 Dr. Constant von Wurzbach produced a biographical lexicon of Austria´s Empire. In 60 volumes and more than 26.000 entries, the lives of memorable persons, who as of 1750 were born, lived, and worked in the Austrian crownlands are mentioned.

All volumes can be seen on page "alo, Austrian Literature Online" under the following link: http://www.literature.at 

This database has been produced in its entirety by Mrs. Mireille Trauner.

The Civil marriages in Graz and Salzburg between 1870 and 1912

Since 1870, the civil marriage was possible because of the Reichsgesetzblatt number 49 dated May 25th, 1868 and was valid untill August 1st, 1938. Due to the fact, that § 64 of the AGBG 1811 was still active, a Christian part had first to leave the church, whereas a possible Jewish part only needed a marriage refusal of the Rabbi.

These marriages have been recorded in own Vital Statistics; in Vienna, duplicates are stored in the Viennese City Archives. In Graz, they are stored at the “Amtshaus Bürgerservice”, in Salzburg at the registry office. Univ. Doz. Dr. Anna Lea Staudacher of the Austrian Acadamy of Sciences (ÖAW) has now stored all marriages between 1870 and 1912. My special thanks go to the Heraldic and Genealogical Society “Adler”, Vienna. Further information about this project can be found in the journal of the “Adler” 26. Band, Heft 8 (October-December 2012).