AUSTRIA: Birth Certificates for Austria

[Stanhope]

How do I find birth Certificates for Vienna, Austria, looking for Birth.1795 and Birth 1842. Immigrants to England around 1859. From Stanhope.

[Berlin-Bob]

Hi Stanhope,

Welcome to RootsChat 

Searching in Austria will be hard because

- many personal records (BMD certs.) are only available if you can prove you are direct kin.
- you may have to apply directly to the church or church organisation, rather than a central office. This often means you need to know the exact parish first.

There are some links on the new familysearch Wiki projekt:
https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Austria
Keep checking this page, as the project is still very much on.going and new items will appear constantly.

You say they are immigrants.  A good start might be looking for naturalisation papers to see if there are more details there:
see Topic: RootsChat Topics - Naturalisation and Internment
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,157691.0.html

Do you have their details in Britain already ? If not, then another possibility is to give us as much detail as you have, and we can try to trace them in Britain. Sometimes other family members, siblings and neighbours may provide snippets of helpful information.

Good luck,
Bob

[carinthiangirl]

Tracing your Ancestors in Vienna - Some Guidelines
A service of the Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna
http://www.wien.gv.at/english/history/archives/ancestors.html