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== Civil Transcripts == | == Civil Transcripts == | ||
Some Polish church records were destroyed in the wars of the 1600s. Others were destroyed as parish houses burned. In 1704, because of concerns about such destruction, some parishes began making copies of their church books. Civil transcripts were made of most church records in Poland after the 1790s. These records were a form of civil registration and included non-Catholics entries. You can use these duplicates where available to supplement parish registers that are missing or illegible. | Some Polish church records were destroyed in the wars of the 1600s. Others were destroyed as parish houses burned. In 1704, because of concerns about such destruction, some parishes began making copies of their church books. Civil transcripts were made of most church records in Poland after the 1790s. These records were a form of civil registration and included non-Catholics entries. You can use these duplicates where available to supplement parish registers that are missing or illegible. | ||
===Civil Transcripts of Church Records in the Austrian Partition<br>[''Odpisy Ksig Metrykalnych w Zaborze Austriackim'']=== | |||
Research Use: Civil transcripts are a primary source for birth, marriage, and death information and for lineage linking data. | |||
Record Type: Transcripts of birth, marriage, and death records prepared by Catholic clergy. Austria took possession of the southern part of Poland in 1772. Austria introduced laws in 1782 establishing Catholic priests as civil registrars. Then, in 1784, an edict by the emperor Joseph II required the Catholic clergy to make civil transcripts of church records. Catholic parish registers were designated as state records and a standardized Latin columnar form was issued. The parish register thus became the official register of births, marriages, and deaths. A transcript (duplicate) was made for state purposes. Separate registers were required for each village in the parish. Greek-Catholic and Roman-Catholic clergy were responsible for the registration of all vital records for all religions; Protestants were permitted to keep their own registers under the direction of the Catholic priest. Jews were allowed the same privilege in 1789. In the mid 1800s non-Catholics, including Jews and Protestants, were made responsible for their own vital records transcripts. | |||
Time Period: 1784 to 1918 (may continue into Republic period). | |||
Contents: Birth registers: child’s name, birth date, christening date, name and religion of the father and mother; often includes names of the parents of child’s father and mother; names and occupations of the witnesses; house number of parents’ residence. Marriage registers: names of the bride and groom, marriage date, religions, ages, house number; names of witnesses; sometimes parents of bride and groom. Death registers: name of deceased, house number, dates of death and burial, religion, age, names of witnesses; sometimes cause of death and names of parents or spouse. | |||
Location: Austrian civil transcripts are in state provincial archives. Recent records of less than 100 years are in local vital records offices [Urzd Stanu Cywilnego]. | |||
Population Coverage: In former Austrian territory about 95% of the Catholic population, considerably less of the non-Catholics until about 1820. By the 1840s about 85% of non-Catholics were registered. By the latter 1800s these transcripts included nearly 99% of the population . | |||
Reliability: In former Austrian territory the registers are fairly accurate for Roman and Greek-Catholic persons but the registration of non-Catholics was sometimes incomplete and inaccurate until responsibility for registration was broadened in the mid-1800s.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Poland,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1987-1999.</ref> | |||
== Information Recorded in Church Registers == | == Information Recorded in Church Registers == | ||