Austria Court Records

Online Records

 * GenTeam: Index of seignorial records Time coverage and content varies by parish. Database is incomplete and under construction still.These records might be found: penalty records, seignorial marriage records, land registers, inventory and treatise records, purchases, guarantees, inheritance declarations, receipts and comparisons'
 * Marriages in Court
 * Consistorial court: Passau
 * Consistorial Court: Vienna
 * Civil magistrate: Vienna
 * Magistrates: Cities and Markets
 * Local courts: gentlemen
 * Diocesan courts: Vienna and St. Pölten


 * 1429-1788 GenTeam:Die Passauer Konsistorialprotokolle Niederösterreichs 1429-1788
 * 1648- Vienna death inspection protocols The death inspection protocols carried out on behalf of the Vienna magistrate are an independent source and completely independent of the parish registers (church registers).
 * 1648- GenTeam:Coroner records in Vienna since 1648 The death inspection protocols carried out on behalf of the Vienna magistrate

Seignorial and notarial records (Gerichts- und Notariatsakten)
Research use: Used as a back up of parish registers for birth, marriage and death information, relationships, etc.

Record type: Records of local civil courts involving contracts, marriages, inheritance and property disputes.

Time Period: 1200-present.

Content: Name, sometimes age or birth date, place of residence, names of relatives, relationships, sometimes place of origin.

Location: Local city and state archives.

Population coverage: 20%.