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==Beginning Research in Austria== | ==Beginning Research in Austria== | ||
Before doing family history research in Austria, you will need to find: | |||
*the actual name of an ancestor | |||
*the date of birth, marriage, and death (can be estimated) | |||
*the place of origin | |||
*the religion of an ancestor | |||
=== Determine the actual name of an ancestor === | |||
*Some ancestors adopted Anglicised names: this occurred often with given names and to a lesser extent with surnames. | |||
*Surnames may have changed during wartime when immigrants found themselves in a new country now at war with their former homeland. | |||
*Sometimes these changes may have occurred in more than one generation. | |||
=== Determine the date of birth, marriage, and death === | |||
*If an exact date is not known, estimate the dates based on other information. | |||
*From a marriage date, it can be estimated that a man was married at age 25 and a woman at age 21. | |||
*It can be estimated that a first child was born one year after the parent's marriage and that subsequent children were born every 2 years after that. | |||
=== Determine the place of origin === | |||
*Records are kept on a town or parish level, thus an exact town of origin must be known. | |||
**[[Austria Finding Town of Origin|Austria Finding Town of Origin]] | |||
=== Determine the religion of an ancestor === | |||
*Until the 1900s, vital records were kept by church parishes or Jewish congregations. | |||
*The records of different religions were kept separately. | |||
*Determine the ancestor's religion by first searching Roman Catholic records; Catholicism was the dominant religion in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. | |||
*Not every village in Austria had its own parish and often, several smaller villages belonged to one parish. | |||
*Use a gazetteer to determine the proper record keeping jurisdiction. | |||
:*[[Austria Gazetteers|Austria Gazetteers]] | |||
[[Category:Austria]][[Category:Research Tips and Strategies]] | [[Category:Austria]][[Category:Research Tips and Strategies]] | ||
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