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Guide to Czechia ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

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Czechia, officially known as the Czech Republic, is a country in Central Europe bordering Poland, Germany, Austria, and Slovakia. It includes the three historical territories of Bohemia, Moravia, and Czech Silesia. From 1918 to 1993, it was the Western part of Czechoslovakia. The official language is Czech.

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• List of Parishes

Archival Regions

Czechia records were created on the town or parish level, then collected and preserved on the archive level.
Locate which archive holds the records for your town by using the GenTeam Gazetteer or the Guided Research experience.

List of Archives

• Brno Moravian Provincial Archives
• Litoměřice Regional Archives
• Opava (Olomouc) Provincial Archives
• Plzeň Regional Archives
• Prague (Praha) City Archives
• Prague (Praha) Regional Archives
• Třeboň Regional Archives
• Zámrsk Regional Archives

Districts (okresy, singular okres) Used by FamilySearch

In 1960, Czechoslovakia was re-divided into districts (okres, plural okresy). In the area of Czechia, there were 75 districts; the 76th Jeseník District was split in the 1990s from Šumperk District. Three consisted only of statutory cities Brno, Ostrava and Plzeň which gained the status of districts only in 1971. The capital city of Prague has a special status, being considered a municipality and region at the same time and not being a part of any district, but ten districts of Prague (obvody) were in some ways equivalent to okres. The older seventy-six districts lost most of their importance in 1999 in an administrative reform.

However, the FamilySearch Catalog for the Czech Republic and the FamilySearch Historical Record Czech Republic, Church Books, 1552-1981 are organized by these historical districts.

• For individual maps of each district, see Districts of the Czech Republic.