Czech Republic Censuses and Inhabitant Registers - FamilySearch Historical Records

Czech Republic

What is in the Collection?
This collection will cover censuses from the Czech Republic between 1800 and 1990..

For Northern Bohemia, the collection only includes those records housed in the regional archive of Litoměřice, for Eastern Bohemia--those housed in the district archve of Trutnov, for Southern Bohemia--those stored in the regional archive of Třeboň, and for Northern Moravia and Silesia--those found in the regional archive of Opava. The collection also includes images and indexed records for the Zámrsk area taken from the Zámrsk Archive. The images are in Czech and German.

What Can These Records Tell Me?
Following is a list of the information found in these records. Keep in mind that some records contain more or less information than this, as record-keeping varied by time and place.

Population records usually contain the following information:
 * House number
 * Head of household
 * Names of members of the household (including servants)
 * Ages, occupations, religions
 * Relationships to head of household
 * Some also give date and place of birth.

How Do I Search the Collection?
Before searching, it is best to know the following information:
 * Name of person
 * Approximate date of the record

View the Images
To browse the collection images, you will need to follow this series of links:
 * 1) Select Browse link
 * 2) Select District
 * 3) Select Place
 * 4) Select Census Year
 * 5) Select Archive Number to view the images

For Help Reading These Records
These records are in Czech (a Slavic language) and German. For help reading the records, see the following wiki articles:


 * Czech Republic Genealogical Word List
 * Czech Republic Language and Languages
 * German Word List
 * Germany Handwriting
 * Deciphering German Script (Kurrentschrift)

I Found the Person I Was Looking For, What Now?

 * Copy down all the information you see in the image.
 * Use the age listed to determine an approximate birth date. This date along with the place of birth can help you find a birth record. Birth records often list biographical and marital details about the parents and close relatives outside of the immediate family.
 * Birth places can tell you former residences and can help to establish a migration pattern for the family.
 * If they are subject to military service, they may have military files in the State or National Archives.
 * Occupations listed can lead you to employment records or other types of records such as school records
 * Do not forget to cite the record. See below for help citing this Collection

Tips to Keep in Mind
Be sure to extract all families before you look at other records. The relationships given will help you to organize family groups. The family groupings will help you identify related families when you discover additional information in other records.
 * Married family members may have lived nearby but in a separate household so you may want to search an entire town, neighboring towns, or even a county.
 * You may be able to identify an earlier generation if elderly parents were living with or close by a married child.
 * You may be able to identify a younger generation if a young married couple still lived with one of their sets of parents.
 * Additional searches may be needed to locate all members of a particular family in the census.
 * The census may identify persons for whom other records do not exist.

What if I Can't Find Who I'm Looking For?

 * Check for variant spellings of the names.
 * Look for an index. There are often indexes at the beginning of each volume. In addition local genealogical and historical societies often have indexes to local records.
 * Search the records of nearby localities (counties, parishes, etc.).

Known Issues with This Collection
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Citing this Collection
Citing your sources makes it easy for others to find and evaluate the records you used. When you copy information from a record, list where you found that information. Here you can find citations already created for the entire collection and for each individual record or image.

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