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Matricula Online
Diocesan parish registers photographed and served free, without an account. Austria and much of Germany and Poland; the Italian entries are South Tyrol.
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The ground it holds
Record regions whose registers are filed here, and for which years.
- 1500–1784 Inner Austria — Carniola, Styria, Carinthia
- 1784–1809 Austria — Joseph II's register reform
- 1813–1918 Austria — the Duchy of Carniola and Lower Styria
- 1991–2026 Slovenia
- 1699–1848 Habsburg Hungary and the Military Frontier — THE TRAP, and it is the reason this region needs its own entry. The Military Frontier was administered from VIENNA by the war ministry, not from Buda by the Hungarian county — so a family in a Grenzer village has military records where its neighbours ten kilometres away have county ones. The eighteenth-century resettlement brought German, Hungarian, Serb, Slovak and Romanian colonists into the same district, each with their own parish and their own language of register.
- 1864–1920 Prussia, then the German Empire — in Schleswig only — THE TRAP. Denmark lost Schleswig and Holstein in 1864, so a family from southern Jutland has German Prussian civil registration — Standesamt records from 1874 — for these years, not Danish ones, and the paper may be in Germany. North Schleswig voted itself back to Denmark in 1920; the records of the German period did not all follow.
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