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Online Resources

• 1817 Lower Austria: House Owners in 1817
• 1817-1829 Austria, Land Ownership Records at MyHeritage - index ($) (various dates)
• 1824-1826 Owners of Houses in Upper Austria in 1824/1826
• 1829 Salzburg: House Owners in 1829
• 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.

House books (Hausbücher)

House books often a very useful linkage tool as ages and names of all family members are given for various time periods. It often lists the owners and residents of a given house. In addition it may contain ages, family relationships, taxes paid, dates of residence of individuals and families.

Land and Tenancy Records

Land and Tenancy records (Grundbücher und Prästationstabellen) consist of declarations of land ownership, tenancy and purchase agreements. The records can be begin as early as 1200 and go to the present. Information that may be found in these records include names of land holders and renters, taxes and rent paid, dates of deeds, residence, description of land, names of fathers and sometimes of several generations of ancestors; date and mode of land acquisition (from a parent or grandparent, by dowry, or partage (division). These records can be located in city archives, state archives, courthouses.