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=== Czech Republic<br> ===

All church records are housed in the state archives. Check the gazetteer available on [http://genteam.at/ http://genteam.at/]&nbsp; (see:&nbsp;“Austria”) to learn which archive has the records for your town of interest. Several archives have been putting their church records on the Internet. The easiest way to access these collections is to go to the [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Main_Page FamilySearch Wiki ](just type in “wiki.familysearch.org” and it comes up); enter “Czech” in the search box and the click on the link to the Czech portal page. Links to online databases are listed under “research tools”.<br>Other helpful links include:  

*[http://www.cgsi.org/ http://www.cgsi.org/] - Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International  

*[http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/SUD/kb/ http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/SUD/kb/] - genealogy in the Sudetenland [German], has a list of towns and parishes with a parish register inventory  

*[http://www.nacr.cz/A-onas/org.aspx http://www.nacr.cz/A-onas/org.aspx] - Czech State Archives website [has English interface]  

*[http://www.shon.150m.com/czechhtm.htm http://www.shon.150m.com/czechhtm.htm] - Czech Research Outline

*http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wghungar/ - Hungary GenWeb project links

*[http://www.moikrewni.pl/mapa/ http://www.moikrewni.pl/mapa/] - surname maps for Poland  

*[http://bindweed.man.poznan.pl/posen/search.php http://bindweed.man.poznan.pl/posen/search.php] - Poznan marriage project; indexes marriages found in Lutheran and Catholic church records of Poznan region (1820-1889); http://bindweed.man.poznan.pl/posen/project.php has links to similar projects for Przodkowie, Pomorze, and Geneteka  

*[https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Main_Page https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Main_Page] - go to “learn” then “research courses”, then click on Poland (right side) videos explaining research in Poland (in English)  

*[http://www.usc.pl/s_urzedy.php http://www.usc.pl/s_urzedy.php] - find addresses of civil registration offices  

*[http://baza.archiwa.gov.pl/sezam/pradziad.php?l=en http://baza.archiwa.gov.pl/sezam/pradziad.php?l=en] – database of church records held in state archives  

*[http://baza.archiwa.gov.pl/sezam/sezam.php?l=en http://baza.archiwa.gov.pl/sezam/sezam.php?l=en] – inventory of state archive holdings by record collection  

*[http://www.halgal.com/index.htm http://www.halgal.com/index.htm] - genealogy of Halychyna and Eastern Galicia  

*[http://www.galizien-online.de/ http://www.galizien-online.de/] history and genealogy of Galicia, with some databases

*[http://www.roots-saknes.lv/Mainroots.htm http://www.roots-saknes.lv/Mainroots.htm] - resources and links for genealogy in Latvia from 1800 to 1950  

*[http://www.lvva-raduraksti.lv/ http://www.lvva-raduraksti.lv/] - Raduraksti –Latvian records online, free registration required. It contains the 1807 Census, church records of various denominations, revision lists&nbsp;; Interfaces in several languages

*[http://www.lithuaniangenealogy.org www.lithuaniangenealogy.org] – Lithuanian Global Genealogical Society; site includes approximately 75 databases with over 45,000 names  

*[http://www.epaveldas.lt/vbspi/ http://www.epaveldas.lt/vbspi/] - links to “digital cultural heritage”, includes some parish registers

*[http://www.genealoogia.ee http://www.genealoogia.ee] - Genealogical Society of Estonia, English available  

*[http://www.eha.ee/saaga/ http://www.eha.ee/saaga/] - links to digitized Church records; in Estonian

*[http://www.iisg.nl/abb/ http://www.iisg.nl/abb/] - National and provincial archives  

*[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ruswgw/ http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ruswgw/] - Russia GenWeb; includes links to some informative pages  

*[http://www.lemko.org/genealogy/galiciapl.html http://www.lemko.org/genealogy/galiciapl.html] - Index to Greek Catholic localities in L'viv Consistory (many records available on microfilm)

*[http://www.genealogylinks.net/europe/romania/ http://www.genealogylinks.net/europe/romania/] Romania Genealogy links ( many Jewish sources)  

*[http://www.genealogienetz.de/vereine/AKSL/ http://www.genealogienetz.de/vereine/AKSL/] genealogy in Siebenbürgen (many German settlements in that area)

*[http://www.srdjevdan.org/ http://www.srdjevdan.org/] - first Serbian website dedicated to family history of the Western Balkans  

*[http://www.rodoslovlje.com/ http://www.rodoslovlje.com/] - website of the Serbian Genealogical Society

*[http://www.ahsgr.org/ http://www.ahsgr.org/] - American Historical society of Germans from Russia (original focus on Volga Germans)  

*[http://cvgs.cu-portland.edu/index.cfm http://cvgs.cu-portland.edu/index.cfm] - The Center for Volga German Studies at Concordia University  

*[http://odessa3.org/ http://odessa3.org/] - a lot of resources, including indexes, extracts, history, gazetteers etc.  

*[http://www.grhs.org http://www.grhs.org] - Germans from Russia Heritage Society (original focus on Black Sea Germans  

*[http://www.wolhynien.de http://www.wolhynien.de] –German settlements in Volhynia  

*[http://www.sggee.org/research/parish.html http://www.sggee.org/research/parish.html] - Society for German Research in Eastern Europe, has links to parish lists, histories, photos, various research helps