Austria Emigration and Immigration
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Online Records[edit | edit source]
- 1686-1855 Ansiedlerakten, 1686-1855 To Hungary. Card file and documents relating to settlers from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Böhmen, Moravia to the Banat (mostly) and other regions of Hungary during the 17th-19th century.
- 1750-1943 Zentrale Sippenkartei, 1750-1943 Index cards, arranged alphabetically by surname, which provide information on date and place of birth, death, and marriage; names of spouse, parents, children (with their birth and death dates); and occupation for Germans who settled abroad, chiefly in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
- 1750-1943 Auswandererkartei mit Familienangehörigen, 1750-1943 Index cards, arranged alphabetically by surname, for German emigrants and their family members. Provides information on nicknames, given names, and variant forms of surnames; ancestral home, earlier and later lands of allegiance, places and dates of birth and death, religious persuasion, date of emigration, earlier and later places of settlement, original occupation and later activity, name of spouse, places and dates of birth and death, place of marriage, occupation and later activity; names, places and dates of birth and death for children, places of residence, names of spouses. Places of settlement include the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Russia, Poland and Italy.
- 1782-1805 Ansiedlerakten, 1782-1805 Card file and documents relating to settlers from Germany, Bohemia and Moravia to Galicia and Bukovina during the 18th-19th century.
- 1904-1914 Germany, Bremen Passenger Departure Lists, 1904-1914 index & images. Also at MyHeritage index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Austria
- 1938-1945 Germans, Swiss and Austrians Deported from France,ca. 1938-1945. Index. Incomplete.
- 1940-1941 Stammblätter der Umsiedler aus Wartheland-Polen, und Litauen Pedigrees of immigrants recorded by the EWZ (Einwandererzentralstelle) (Immigrant Control Office) of migrants from Wartheland-Poland and Lithuania who were resettled in Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Austria. Includes names, dates and birthplaces of the emigrant, his parents, grandparents, and children; residence, occupation, and religion. Often includes a photograph of the immigrant.
- 1946-1971 Free Access: Africa, Asia and Europe, Passenger Lists of Displaced Persons, 1946-1971 Ancestry, free. Index and images. Passenger lists of immigrants leaving Germany and other European ports and airports between 1946-1971. The majority of the immigrants listed in this collection are displaced persons - Holocaust survivors, former concentration camp inmates and Nazi forced laborers, as well as refugees from Central and Eastern European countries and some non-European countries.
- Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild Choose a volume and then choose Italy under "Listed by Port of Departure" or "Listed by Port of Arrival".
- Georgia (United States) Salzburger and allied families
Passports[edit | edit source]
- 1792-1918 Paßregister, 1792-1918 Passports of citizens recorded at Vienna, Niederösterreich, Austria.
Emigration from Austria[edit | edit source]
Austrian emigration patterns have been difficult to determine. There was no official country known as Austria until 1918. Prior to that time the sprawling Habsburg Empire, an amalgam of a dozen nationalities, encompassed the idea of Austria. Thus Austrian immigration can rightly be seen as the immigration of Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Slovenian, Serbian, and Croatian peoples as well as a plethora of other national and ethnic groups.
Between 1860 and 1974 Austria provided 4.3 million emigrants to the United States. These included ethnic German, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Slovene, Romanian, Italian, Croatian and Serbian peoples. During many of these years Latin America also received many Austrian emigrants. Many North and South Americans need Austrian records.[1]
For Further Reading[edit | edit source]
- Austrian Americans provides a historical overview of emigration to America.
There are additional sources listed in the FamilySearch Catalog:
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Austria,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1987-1999.