Austrian Genealogy - International Links

International Genealogy Links

Review Link/Service/Resource and Comments
5/99 Summary: Links to ship, passenger lists & immigration resources
to help your research of immigrants.

5/99 Summary: Links to outstanding search engines
to help you research surnames prior to posting queries.

4/98
Summary: Links to the best Place Finders
to help you locate the town or village that you're looking for.

08/06
Outstanding
Southern Waldviertel Family History ProjectNew
provides educational tools to promote Waldvierteler & Austrian family history research. The Waldviertel or "Forest Quarter" is a picturesque semi-mountainous region less than an hour's drive west of Vienna, Austria.

11/00
Very good
Ahnenforschung.Net
a comprehensive German genealogical web index (a few sections are available in English too)

9/00
Very good
Genealogylinks.net
consists of 400 pages of now, over 7,000 links, most of them to ship's passenger lists, church records, cemetery transcriptions, military records and censuses, etc.

9/00
Very good
Jewishwebindex
by Ted Margulis. A compendium of useful information or links geared to --- and useful for --- your personal Jewish genealogical research.

7/00
Very good
World Biographical Index
by K. G. Saur Publishing and Braunschweig University Library. The database contains about 2,4 million short biographical entries for eminent individuals who lived in North and South America, Western and Central Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania

3/00
Very good
The Open Directory Project
has a comprehensive directory of genealogy resources on the web

9/99
Very good
Family Genealogy Online
is devoted to providing quality links for genealogy researchers who are tracing their ancestry.

3/99
Very good
Distant Cousins Genealogy Index
is good summary of useful resources.

12/98
Very good
German-American Subscriber's Site
by Nancy Ring Kendrick provides a summary of useful links.

2/98
Outstanding
Cyndi's List of Genealogical Sites on the Internet
is an award-winning summary with some useful information about Austria.

5/98
Very good
Germanic Genealogy - The German Way
has a nice summary of genealogical resources for German speaking countries.

4/98
Very good
Ancestry
provides a large number of data bases that can be searched online (only some are free).

1/98
Outstanding
The WorldGenWeb Project
with volunteers from around the world (including myself for Austria).

3/98
Very good
Kindred Konnections
yet another good place to check for names and genealogical information.

05/98
Very good
The FEEFHS - Federation of East European Family History Societies
provides a very comprehensive web site with ethnic, religious, national index, a map room, a location index and an Austria Cross Index.

3/98
Very good
Genealogy GatewayTM To The Web
by Steve Lacy has some 30,000 links and is an excellent place to register your genealogical home page.

3/98
Very good
The Internet Genealogical Directory
(English and French) allows you to register your genealogical home page.

3/98
Very good
Old Disease Names & Their Modern Definitions and
Krankheitsbezeichnungen, the German equivalent on the Naujocks site.

9/97 The Best Genealogy Links on the WWW
is a fun place to check whether your bookmarks are up to date.

2/98
Outstanding
The JewishGen
and its excellent location lookup facility.

12/98
Very good
Family Tree Maker;
Broderbund Software's genealogy site including some Austrian links and the GenForum for Austria.

3/98
Very good
Internet Sources of German Genealogy;
by Andreas Hanacek

3/98
Good
Cemeteries in Europe
with some information about Austrian cemeteries.

3/98
Very good
Ethnology of Austria
with information about languages, nationalities, races, etc.

3/98
Very good
International Internet Genealogical Society (IIGS) - Library
with many links to Europe.

4/00
Very good
Genealogy Resources on the Internet;
by John Fuller and Chris Gaunt including Mailing Lists, USENET Newsgroups, anonymous File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Gopher, World Wide Web, Telnet, and E-Mail.

5/98
Good
EEGS - East European Genealogical Society
provides useful newsletters concerning research in Eastern Europe.

11/00
Outstanding
genealogy.net
the German Genealogy Home Page with a section about Austria

9/97
Very good
The RAND Genealogy Club
including some well known services such as the Roots Surname List

2/98
Good
Everton's Genealogical Helper
is a useful commercial site for all researchers and provides many links to genealogical resources.

3/98
Good
Biography
has a vast number of biographies online.

10/97
Good
GENDEX - The WWW Genealogical Index
by Gene Stark, including an index of some 2.5 million names and the GED2HTML facility for producing HTML from GEDCOM files. Not everything is free.

10/97
Antique Maps of Austria
is a commercial service where you can buy old maps of Austria.

10/97
Very good
The National Genealogy Society (USA)
with some links to Austria.

01/98
Very good
My Virtual Reference Desk
lists many interesting Genealogy Resources.

02/98
Very good
GenServ
with a vast collection of GEDCOM files and over 11 million names. Commercial (for members) but unlimited request for free surname counts.

03/99
Outstanding
RootsWeb
is home to the ROOTS-L and thousands of other mailing lists, provides access to the Roots Surname List (RSL) and Roots Location List (RLL) and a multitude of other archives.

02/98
Good
The Archives School (Marburg, Germany)
with some information about Internet archive resources.

9/97
Very good
The Genealogy Home Page
by Stephen A. Wood with an interesting "What's Really New in WWW Genealogy Pages" (updated daily).

Last Update: 7 Aug, 2006

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