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Genealogy - Trace your ancestors in Austria with this cheat sheet, a summary of many useful sites for your research
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Before you start: consult the Wiki on genealogical research in Austria
Civil registration in Austria began on:
- January 1, 1939 for births or deaths
- August 1, 1939 for marriages
- October 1, 1895 for records of the Burgenland (part of the Hungarian Democratic Republic until 1921)
Find the different civil registration offices on the government website.
Consult the help for searching in the archives of the Austrian National Archives.
Use the search engine.
You can also access digitized archives in some states (bundesländer):
Burgenland Archives (contact only)
Carinthia Municipal Archives (contacts only)
Upper Austria Provincial Archives
Vienna Municipal and Provincial Archives
To find records before these dates, you will need to consult the records of religious communities in the dioceses: List of different dioceses
Website of the Austrian Catholic Church
Website of the Austrian Evangelical Church
Website of the Austrian Jewish Community
Military resources and archives on Family Search
Resources and archives on GenTeam (registration required)
Collaborative medieval archives in Austria and Europe
Database of Austrian and Slovak archives
Database on the History of European Families in Vienna
Search for deceased individuals in Vienna cemeteries
Austria as a country of immigration and emigration
Austria, a crossroads of East-West migrations
Why three tailors came from Austria in 1670?
Intra-European migrations from yesterday to today
Migration and urban growth in Vienna
Archive images and graphic collection of the National Archives
Digital collection of the Austrian National Library
Photographs and films from the archives of the city and state of Vienna
Old maps of Austria on Gallica
Austrian Society for Family History and Regional Studies (ÖFR)
Austrian Society for Genealogy and History
Genealogical and Heraldic Society ADLER
Regional Association for Genealogical Research in Vorarlberg
Genealogy in Vienna and Lower Austria
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