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Guild and apprenticeship records (Zunft- und Lehrlingsbücher)[edit | edit source]

Research use: Names of parents and sometimes spouses and children are listed. Useful linkage source.

Record type: Records of merchants, craftsmen, tradesmen, skilled laborers, and persons bound by indenture to serve others for a prescribed period to learn an art or trade.

Time Period: 1600-1850.

Content: Names of skilled laborers, craftsmen and apprentices, dates of birth or ages, places of origin and residence, family relationships, occupations. Some guild records list their members' families with marriage dates of couples and complete birth dates of their children.

Location: Town and state archives.

Percentage in FamilySearch Library: 90%.

Population coverage: 5-10%.

Reliability: Very good.[1]

Burgher rolls (Bürgerbücher)[edit | edit source]

Municipal account rolls (Stadtbücher)[edit | edit source]

Business records (Handelsakten)[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Liechtenstein,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1989-1999.