Overall Search

All available databases will be searched (with the exception of the Gazetteer), acutally there are 7.529.268 names.

Gazetteer of Czech, Austrian and Slovenian Republic 

In this database you will find about 68.000 locations in Austria (with South Tirol) and in the Czech 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 

You may also purchase the gazetteers of Bohemia, Moravia, Austria (without South Tirol) and Slovania at IHFF (www.ihff.at). They can be used in the archives where you will always find new locations during research.

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 Roman Catholic baptisms of Vienna between 1585 and 1900

Projektbeginn: Oktober 2012

Zusammenarbeit mit Wiener Pfarrämtern und digitalisierten Matriken auf www.Matricula-Online.eu

zur Zeit sind ca. 80.000 Einträge verfügbar

Im 19. Jahrhundert zogen rund 3,5 Millionen Menschen aus allen Ländern der Habsburger-Monarchie (und darüber hinaus) Richtung Wien. 1910 lebten in Wien mehr ca. 2,1 Millionen Menschen; Wien war damals die sechstgrößte Stadt der Welt. Fast jede Familie in den Kronländern hatte familiäre Verbindungen in diese Stadt.

Zwischen 1784 und 1900 sind in Wien geschätzte 8 Millionen Kinder zur Welt gekommen. Leider gibt es bis heute kein zentrales Geburtenregister – sieht man vom Index der Jüdischen Geburten in Wien ab, ebenfalls auf GenTeam zu finden.

Wir haben nun begonnen, in Zusammenarbeit mit Wiener Pfarrämtern diesen fehlenden Index zu erstellen und online zu stellen. Wir werden die Bezirke 2-9, 1784-1900 bevorzugen, auch wenn parallel Matriken in anderen Bezirken begonnen wurden. Aktuell können wir Ihnen bereits den Index aller über 52.000 Taufen in der Pfarre St. Josef ob der Laimgrube im 6. Bezirk präsentieren, sowie weitere ca. 30.000 Einträge aus den Pfarren St. Karl Borromäus, Altlerchenfeld, Währing, Schottenfeld, Sankt Ulrich, Sankt Peter, Sankt Michael, Sankt Josef Wien II, Sankt Augustin, Rennweg, Mariatreu, Landstraße und Hofburg; weitere Jahrgänge anderer Pfarren sind bereits in Arbeit. Wir arbeiten die bestehenden Indexe auf, die anschließend nach Folien umsortiert und mit den Originaleinträgen verglichen und gegebenenfalls korrigiert werden. Somit wird auch die Qualität des Index sichergestellt.

Die Matriken werden in naher Zukunft online zur Verfügung stehen. Somit stehen dem Forscher auch bei hie und da auftretenden Mehrfachnennungen die Originaleinträge relativ rasch zur Verfügung.

Ich lade Sie herzlich ein, an diesem faszinierenden Projekt mitzuarbeiten. Reisetätigkeit oder Besuche in Pfarrämtern sind nicht notwendig; die Indexe können in digitaler Form zur Verfügung gestellt werden. Da es (wenige) mit Schreibmaschine, schön geschriebene und etwas weniger schön geschriebene Indexe gibt, ist sicherlich auch für jeden etwas dabei.

Kontaktieren Sie mich einfach unter This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Ich stehe Ihnen gerne für Ihre Fragen zur Verfügung.

Mit herzlichen Grüßen,

Felix Gundacker

Indices of Protestant Records in Vienna

Since 1783, two different Protestant Parishes exist in Vienna: AC and HC. As a first step indices of marriages of the parish AB between 1783 and 1860 are available now. These records are not on microfilm or digital, but only available in the parish office.

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.

The Civil marriages in Vienna between 1870 and 1908

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; the duplicates are stored in the Viennese City Archives. Univ. Doz. Dr. Anna Lea Staudacher of the Austrian Acadamy of Sciences (ÖAW) has now stored all marriages between 1870 and 1908 (books 1-5). My special thanks go to the Heraldic and Genealogical Society “Adler”, Vienna. Further information about this project can be found in the journals of the “Adler” between 2007 and 2010.

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.

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Index of Roman Catholic Vital Statistics (church records) 

This database contains records of different parishes of Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Burgenland, Bohemia and Moravia.
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/dominions are listed below:

The authors can be reached at:

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

• Gschweng Norbert; site: www.Gschweng.de
• Gundacker Felix ; site: www.felixgundacker.at
• Gundacker Felix ; site: www.ihff.at

Index of Jewish records

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

• Spielmann Alfred; spielmann [at] rocketmail.com

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

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
  • 4 = inventory records
  • 5 = penalty records
  • 6 seignorial marriage records
• date/year
• surname
• first name
• parents/additional information
• age
• address
• name, parents, additional information, age, address of marriage partner

• Gundacker Felix ; site: www.felixgundacker.at
• Gundacker Felix ; site: www.ihff.at

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).

Verzeichnis der Neubekehrten im Waldviertel 1652-1654/Codes Vindobonensis 7757 der NB Wien

As the printed Edition of the book cited above is out of stock the Society for Family Research in Franconia e.V. (GFF) has given permission to publish this index online. The index contains the names of about 15000 people who had to change their religion from Protestantism to Catholicism in 1652-1654. This index is also on the GFF-CD. A detailed book review (text in German) can be found here.

Owners of Houses in Lower Austria in 1817

From 1817-1824 a complete survey of Lower Austria was made. All protocols and maps still exist. They are a fantastic tool for each genealogist and historian.

This database encompasses all communities within Lower Austria in 1817-1824. It also contains both districts which now belong to the Czech Republic and the City of Vienna. 

From each of about 200.000 localities are stored:

• community
• map-number
• surname
• given name
• profession
• location
• house number

In the printed version (in German only; 1088 pages, ISBN 978-3-902318-52-X; available at IHFF (www.ihff.at) you can find:

• an introduction to the time and the kind of surveying
• an index of all surname
• a gazetteer with respective communities and dominions
• a list of all dominions with the communities

Nürnberg/Germany – Index of Births/Marriages/Deaths 1810-1979

This index of registers of births, marriages, deaths between 1810 and 1899/1929/1979 (births/marriages/deaths) was created by the City Archives of Nürnberg, Germany (only available in German). The complete database actually contains about 950.000 records. About 33.000 records of births of illegitimate children will be added soon. You will find a detailed description of the project here (only available in German).

Detailed information can be ordered from the Archives, but must be paid. Please, send all this information you got from GenTeam to the archives. To order, click here (only available in German).

Bayreuth: Marriage Testimonials 1875-1915

This database has been created by Walter Bartl.

Records of Roman Catholic Records in Slovenia

This database, consisting  throughout of Catholic baptisms and marriages, was furnished by the Society of Slovensko rodoslovno društvo in Laibach.  Since the database  contains ancestors of specific senders or sources, it contains also living descendants.  Questions concerning further data or information of specific names or sources can be found under the following link:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Caution: there still exist some errors concerning conversions of family names which will be continually corrected

Index of sources of the City of Steyr, Upper Austria

This database, furnished by Engineer Pabinger, contains approximately 28,000 references to person from multiple sources of the city archive of STEYR.

For example, you will find Council Protocols, the Archive of the Iron Trail, diverse calendars and newspapers, Indices of persons from marriage applications or death announcements, gazettes between the years 1824 to 2011, it also contains references to information of persons between 1088 and 2011.

In addition to surnames and given names, you will, for example, also find information about profession, addresses with conscription numbers, cause of death and, of course, all sources.

Please, send your queries to the archives ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

Die Friedhofsdatenbank Innsbruck

Die Innsbrucker jüdischen Friedhöfe gehören zu den am besten erforschten Friedhöfen Österreichs.

Für besonders Interessierte wird die Publikation im Haymon Verlag empfohlen, in der keine Frage offen bleibt.

Thomas Albrich: Judenbichl. Die jüdischen Friedhöfe in Innsbruck

http://www.haymonverlag.at/page.cfm?vpath=buecher/buch&titnr=637

Am Ende dieser Publikation steht eine Liste mit allen bekannten Begräbnissen in Innsbruck. Sie wurde von Martin Achrainer auf Basis der vorhandenen Begräbnisbücher und älterer Quellen zusammengestellt und bildet die Grundlage der auf genteam.at durchsuchbaren gut 400 Bestattungen.

Eine Besonderheit des Innsbrucker jüdischen Friedhofs ist, dass viele Personen umgebettet wurden – und das bis zu drei Mal. Darüber hinaus ist der Friedhof mehrfach zerstört wurden.

Zu guter letzt wurde die Fläche des Friedhofs 1979/80 auf die Hälfte verkleinert (heute unvorstellbar aber wahr). Das heißt unter anderem, dass für relativ wenige Bestattete noch Gräber zu finden sind. Viele sind nur mehr auf dem "Erinnerungsgrab", einer Metalltafel, gelistet. Vor einem Besuch in Innsbruck empfiehlt es sich jedenfalls, nachzufragen, ob man das gesuchte Grab auch im heutigen Friedhof noch finden kann.

Vor dem Jahr 1867 wurden die Juden außerhalb der Stadt auf einem heute noch als "Judenbichl" bekannten Hügel bestattet. Auch aus dieser Zeit konnten wir einige Bestattungen belegen.

Für Fragen zu den Biographien der Bestatteten ist vom Jüdischen Museum Hohenems die Forschungsdatenbank des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte der Universität Innsbruck online gestellt worden, die "work in progress" ist und über diese Gruppe weit hinausgeht. Allen jüdischen Familienforschern für Tirol, Vorarlberg und Südtirol wärmstens ans Herz gelegt.

http://www.hohenemsgenealogie.at

Für das Forscherteam "Gruppe Albrich"
Niko Hofinger
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General – Index of Siebmacher’s Book of Heraldry 1605-1967, Hanns Jäger-Sunstenau

Siebmacher’s General Index of Heraldry, compiled in 1964 by Dr. Hanns Jäger-Sunstenau and published by Adeva Publishers, is no longer in print. Hofrat DI Leopold Strenn reviewed the Index, and with the kind permission of the Adeva Publishing Company, it can now be published. Siebmacher’s Book of Heraldry can also be viewed in many libraries in Austria and other countries as well as at the Heraldic-Genealogical Society “Adler”.