Austria Court Records
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- GenTeam: Index of seignorial records Time coverage and content varies by parish. Database is incomplete and under construction still.These records might be found: penalty records, seignorial marriage records, land registers, inventory and treatise records, purchases, guarantees, inheritance declarations, receipts and comparisons'
- Marriages in Court
- Consistorial court: Passau
- Consistorial Court: Vienna
- Civil magistrate: Vienna
- Magistrates: Cities and Markets
- Local courts: gentlemen
- Diocesan courts: Vienna and St. Pölten
- 1429-1788 GenTeam:Die Passauer Konsistorialprotokolle Niederösterreichs 1429-1788
- 1648- Vienna death inspection protocols The death inspection protocols carried out on behalf of the Vienna magistrate are an independent source and completely independent of the parish registers (church registers).
- 1648- GenTeam:Coroner records in Vienna since 1648 The death inspection protocols carried out on behalf of the Vienna magistrate
Seignorial and notarial records (Gerichts- und Notariatsakten)
Research use: Used as a back up of parish registers for birth, marriage and death information, relationships, etc.
Record type: Records of local civil courts involving contracts, marriages, inheritance and property disputes.
Time Period: 1200-present.
Content: Name, sometimes age or birth date, place of residence, names of relatives, relationships, sometimes place of origin.
Location: Local city and state archives.
Population coverage: 20%.[1]
References
- ↑ The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Austria,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1987-1999.