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== Wills and estate records (''Testamente und Nachlaßakten'') ==
== Wills and estate records (''Testamente und Nachlaßakten'') ==


Research use: Provides information that helps establish family relationships and linkage.
Research use: Provides information that helps establish family relationships and linkage.  


Record type: Wills and divisions of estates for deceased individuals with property.
Record type: Wills and divisions of estates for deceased individuals with property.  


Time Period: 1500-present.
Time Period: 1500-present.  


Content: Name and age of testator, residence, legatees or heirs, relationships, description of land and property, date of will, probate and death, signature, witnesses.
Content: Name and age of testator, residence, legatees or heirs, relationships, description of land and property, date of will, probate and death, signature, witnesses.
 
Location: State archives in Vaduz, district court archives in Innsbruck and Vienna.
 
Population coverage: 10%.
 
Reliability: Good.<ref name="profile">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.</ref>
 
== Guardian and ward records (''Vormundschafts- und Waisenakten'') ==
 
Research use:  Gives names, ages or birth dates, other relationships, or guardians.
 
Record type: Records of guardianship and orphan care.
 
Time Period:  1600-present.
 
Content: Names of guardians, wards, orphans, parents, ages, birth dates, place of residence and origin.


Location: State archives in Vaduz, district court archives in Innsbruck and Vienna.
Location: State archives in Vaduz, district court archives in Innsbruck and Vienna.


Population coverage:  10%.
Population coverage: 7%.
 
ReliabilityGood.<ref name="profile" />


Reliability: Good.<ref name="profile">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.</ref>
== References ==


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Wills and estate records (Testamente und Nachlaßakten)[edit | edit source]

Research use: Provides information that helps establish family relationships and linkage.

Record type: Wills and divisions of estates for deceased individuals with property.

Time Period: 1500-present.

Content: Name and age of testator, residence, legatees or heirs, relationships, description of land and property, date of will, probate and death, signature, witnesses.

Location: State archives in Vaduz, district court archives in Innsbruck and Vienna.

Population coverage: 10%.

Reliability: Good.[1]

Guardian and ward records (Vormundschafts- und Waisenakten)[edit | edit source]

Research use: Gives names, ages or birth dates, other relationships, or guardians.

Record type: Records of guardianship and orphan care.

Time Period: 1600-present.

Content: Names of guardians, wards, orphans, parents, ages, birth dates, place of residence and origin.

Location: State archives in Vaduz, district court archives in Innsbruck and Vienna.

Population coverage: 7%.

Reliability: Good.[1]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 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.