A regional archive · Brno, Czechia · Images, free, no account
Acta Publica
Moravian and Silesian parish registers, free. The Czech regional archives each publish their own; this is the Brno one.
Last checked 2026-09-22. Tell us if this has changed.
The ground it holds
Record regions whose registers are filed here, and for which years.
- 1526–1918 Austria — Kingdom of Bohemia — THE GOOD NEWS, AND IT IS EXCEPTIONAL. The Czech regional archives have digitised nearly every surviving parish register and put them online free, without an account. Western Bohemia is at Porta fontium, the rest at the regional archives' own portals. This is the best-served ground in this entire map.
- 1918–1938 Czechoslovakia
- 1945–1992 Czechoslovakia
- 1993–2026 Czechia
- 1526–1918 Austria — Margraviate of Moravia
- 1918–1938 Czechoslovakia
- 1945–1992 Czechoslovakia
- 1993–2026 Czechia
- 1526–1742 Habsburg Bohemian crown lands
- 1742–1871 Prussia — Province of Silesia (Austrian Silesia stays Habsburg) — THE TRAP. Frederick took most of Silesia in 1742 and left a strip — Austrian Silesia, around Opava and Těšín — with the Habsburgs. Two record systems, two languages of administration and two present-day countries, for a province people still name as one place.
- 1918–1939 Divided — East Upper Silesia to Poland in 1922, the rest German; Těšín split with Czechoslovakia — THE TRAP, again and worse. The 1921 plebiscite and the partition that followed cut Upper Silesia in two, and Těšín was cut a third way. Three archives now hold what one parish produced.
- 1945–2026 Poland, and Czech Silesia in the south — THE TRAP that catches everyone. The German population was expelled and the place names changed wholesale — Breslau is Wrocław, Waldenburg is Wałbrzych, Gleiwitz is Gliwice. Records made in German before 1945 sit in Polish archives under Polish names. Search the German name for the record and the Polish name for the archive.
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