Vital Records Index: Alpine Region
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This CD contains information from birth, christening, and marriage records from selected parishes in Austria and Switzerland. While Liechtenstein is grouped with Austria and Switzerland, there are no records from Liechtenstein in our data, yet. Some names found in the Vital Records Index may also be found on the International Genealogical Index (IGI) produced by the Church.
This index includes:
- Records that cover an approximate time period from 1529 to 1905.
- Approximately 16,000 christening records and 5,000 marriage records for Austria.
- Approximately 110,000 christening records and 31,000 marriage records for Switzerland.
- The names of the individual; the parents' names when available; the date and place where the birth, christening, or marriage was registered; and the name of the individual's spouse.
- Reference information that allows you to locate the original record on microfilm.
This is not a complete index. Your ancestor may not appear here even though you know he or she lived in a time and place covered by the index. Because of certain restrictions, only selected parishes were extracted.
Localities used within this index are generally represented as they were in the mid 1800s. While this does not take into account border changes in earlier or later time periods, it does closely represent the proper localities for most of the records found in this collection.
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Updated 28 March 2002