Record Atlas
18 FamilySearch collections · 4 archives · 551 places · 1285–2019

Austria

Where the records of Austria are, who holds them, and what it costs to look. 11,863,523 indexed records reachable through FamilySearch alone.

Where to start in Austria

3 of the 3 checked sources here can be opened tonight. 2are free images with no account. 1 needs a free account. On top of that, 9 worldwide services reach Austria without a subscription.

1 more institution is listed here and has never been checked — nobody has opened it, written to it, or found out what it holds. They are on the map as grey because that is what they are, and the honest reading of this page is 3 known-open, 1 unknown.

Write to Archivinformationssystem (Österreichisches Staatsarchiv) for what is not online. FamilySearch has 18 collections covering it, running 1285–2019, 11,863,523 indexed records. 5 pieces of this ground are mapped for jurisdiction, so the atlas can say whose archive held it in a given year.

551 places placed, 3 volumes walked. Open Austria on the map, or tell us what is missing.

Whose archive this ground was

Record regions mapped in Austria — which empire held the ground, and therefore which archive holds its paper.

The archives

  • ANNO — Austrian Newspapers Online free Vienna, Austria

    The Austrian National Library's digitised newspaper run. Full-text searchable, and it covers the whole empire — which is why it finds Croatian and Istrian names.

  • GenTeam.at Vienna, Austria

    Volunteer indexes to the Habsburg lands — Vienna's parish registers, Jewish records, school and guild lists. Free with an account, and it reaches ground the church portals do not.

  • Matricula Online free Passau, Germany

    Diocesan parish registers photographed and served free, without an account. Austria and much of Germany and Poland; the Italian entries are South Tyrol.

  • Archivinformationssystem (Österreichisches Staatsarchiv) unsurveyed

    The Austrian State Archives' own finding aid, searchable by field. Worked by the Defranceski archive, which also recorded that the default search operator hides results — a search here needs its operator set deliberately. A catalogue, not images. Not yet surveyed.

And 12 worldwide providers reach Austria too — the full list.

18 FamilySearch collections

Grouped by the ground each one covers, nationwide. A free account opens the images; some are restricted to a Family History Centre.

Austria — nationwide 18

5 more collections, contributed

A directory David assembled, sorted by what kind of record each one is. Read this differently from the rest of the page. The descriptions are his, not an archive's catalogue, and nobody here has opened the volumes behind them. Every link was tried on 2026-09-20 and answered; the ones that did not are not listed.

Church and parish registers 1
Probate, land and notarial 1
Military and wartime 2
Cemeteries and burials 1
General historical archives 1

551 places, 3 volumes

The 250 carrying the most collections are listed; 301 more are in Austria and on the map. Every place lists them all.

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