Czech Republic: Regional, Local, and Family History

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EuroDocs > History of Czech Republic: Primary Documents > Czech Republic: Regional, Local, and Family History

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• Prague Public Archives

Various documents, parchments, and manuscripts.

Also includes registry books.

(Czech facsimiles)

• SOA Praha: State Regional Archives in Prague

Access to digitized registers of the Central Bohemia Region via eBadatelna program.

Birth, marriage, and death records.

Includes biographical information from "City of Prague and other regions, as well as Jewish registers and military registers are kept by other archives."

Useful for family history/genealogical research.

Search the records for transcribed record and digitized original record facsimile of the record book. Ability to search by keyword or provenance type.

(Czech facsimiles and transcriptions)

• Regional Archives in Oprava Digital Archives

Ability to customize search to only find digitized documents.

Includes parish registers, charters, land records, maps, and more.

(Czech interface, Czech and German facsimiles)

• SRA Trebon - Digital Archives

Online access to digitized materials of the State Regional Archives in Trebon, Czech Republic.

Webpage available in English, German, or Czech.

(16th to 20th centuries; facsimiles)

• of Births, Marriages and Deaths of Jewish Religion Communities

Vital records of Jewish communities in Czech territory, includes record facsimiles.

Use tabs at top of page to browse the registry and inventory of the register.

(1784-1949; Czech transcriptions and facsimiles)

• Registers of Jewish Communities

(1784-1949; Czech and German facsimiles)

• Records of Jewish Families in Prague

(1811-1848; German facsimiles)

• Centropa Czech Republic: Oral Jewish History

Database of interviews with Jewish people from the Czech Republic.

Includes facsimiles of official documents.

Explore the database by family name, city. Also includes a photo database.

Advanced search here.

(20th century; photos, English translations, Czech and German facsimiles)

• Prague Population Registry

(1830-1920; Czech facsimiles)

• Conscriptions

Applications for residency permits in the city of Prague.

(1850 - 1914; Czech)

• Records from the Society of Support for German Science, Arts, and Literature in Bohemia

Various records and protocols.

(1891-1945; Czech facsimiles)

• 20th Century Photos of Prague

Photos of Prague from the early 20th century.

(photos, Czech interface)

• Documentation of those shot on western border of Czechoslovakia

Includes biographies and birth/death dates and places for those shot.

(6 October 1948 - 1989; Czech interface, facsimiles, and transcriptions]

• Deaths of Prisoners in Pribram Uranium Ore Mining

Prisoners forced to mine uranium ore included "well-known politicians, scientists, clergy, artists, athletes and other personalities."

Includes name, birth and death dates, cause and means of death, initial sentence, and burial information.

Found at the Vojna memorial website.

(1951-1961; Czech)

• Prague Information Service Archives

Newspaper clippings regarding events in Prague.

(1958-present; Czech facsimiles)

• Maps of Prague

(Czech facsimiles)

• FEEFHS: Czech Republic genealogical sources

Links to related genealogical sources and maps.

(English interface)

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EuroDocs > History of Czech Republic: Primary Documents > Czech Republic: Regional, Local, and Family History

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Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
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