Czech Republic Civil Registers - FamilySearch Historical Records

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What is in This Collection?
This collection will include civil registration records of births, marriages and deaths from the Hlucín (Hultschin, Hulczyn) area in the Moravian-Silesian region of the Czech Republic from 1874-1937. The area formerly belonged to the Duchy of Troppau, but was divided in 1742 between Habsburg Austria and the Prussian province of Silesia. At the end of World War I it was made part of Czechoslovakia, later returned to Nazi Germany in 1938, and then restored to Czechoslovakia in 1945. The originals of these records are housed in the Opava district archive, Czech Republic. The records are in Czech, German, or Latin.

Reading These Records
These records are written in German, Czech and Latin. For help reading the records see the following:


 * German Language and Languages
 * German Word List
 * Czech Republic Genealogical Word List
 * Czech Republic Language and Languages
 * Latin Genealogical Word List

What Can These Records Tell Me?
The information in these records usually include the following:

Birth records
 * Names
 * Date of birth
 * Parents’ names
 * Location

Marriage records


 * Names of bride and groom
 * Marriage date
 * Location

Death records


 * Names
 * Date of death
 * Location

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Citing This Collection
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“Czech Republic, Civil Registers 1874-1937.” Images. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 14 June 2016. Zemsky Archiv v Opave (Opava District Archives, Opava).
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