Austria Inquisitions Postmortem

Austria

Inquisitions postmortem (Totenerklärungen)
Research use: Provides  linkage, as deaths are often difficult to identify in church records.

Record type: Death certifications.

Time Period: 1649-1850.

Contents: Certification by a city official of an individual’s death; name and place of death, age at time of death, relationships, name of cemetery, some birth dates.

Location: City and state archives.

Population coverage: 10%.