Record Atlas
6 eras · 1200–2026 · 1,514 places

Moravia and Silesia

Brno, Olomouc, Opava, Ostrava. Which empire held this ground in which years — and, the part that matters, which archive that means.

Whose archive this ground was

YearsWho held itWhose archive that means
1200–1526 Margraviate of Moravia no registers survive

Before registers.
1526–1918 Austria — Margraviate of Moravia Acta Publica · FamilySearch · ANNO — Austrian Newspapers Online

Acta Publica has the Moravian and Silesian parish registers, free and without an account — the same exceptional provision as Bohemia.
1918–1938 Czechoslovakia Acta Publica
1938–1945 Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren Arolsen Archives · Bundesarchiv
1945–1992 Czechoslovakia Acta Publica
1993–2026 Czechia Acta Publica

The rings are approximate — deliberately. They exist to shade which filing system a place fell under, not to adjudicate a border. A place near a ring's edge should be checked against both neighbours.

See the whole span, 1200–2026, on the map →

The map takes a range, and a range that crosses one of the rows above is where records get lost: the family never moved, and the archive on the far side of the handover will tell you it holds nothing.

1,514 places on this ground

The 200 carrying the most collections are listed; 1,314 more stand on this ground. Every place has them all.

37 FamilySearch collections reach this ground

Ranked with the regional ones first — a collection for a province is usually a better lead than a national index, though the national index is often where a name is actually written down. A free account opens the images.

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