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GERMAN MIGRATION TO SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE AND RUSSIA THE AUSTRO- HUNGARIAN EMPIRE Czech Republic – “Sudeten Germans” Baerbel K. Johnson AG ® Johnsonbx@familysearch.org Germans settled in areas now covered by the Czech Republic beginning in the 13 th Century, mostly in villages separate from the Czech-speaking majority. A 1921 census showed that 3,123,000 Germans lived in Czechoslovakia - 23.4% of the total population. After World War II over 2.2 million Germans were expelled from the country. Many moved back to Germany, where they formed homeland organizations. The church records are kept in the various regional archives, where they can be accessed by researchers. Accessibility by mail is very limited. Helpful Web sites: • http://www.shon.150m.com/czechhtm.htm - Czech Research Outline – full of helpful information, including maps, record samples, archive addresses etc. • http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/SUD/kb/ - listing of the parish registers stored in the various Czech archives. • http://www.ihff.at/indexstarte.htm - online gazetteer of over 70,000 places in the Austro- Hungarian Empire. • http://www.sudetendeutsches-archiv.de/web/de/index.htm - Archive for historical material relating to the Sudeten Germans. Many Czech archives are now making parish registers in their holdings available on the Internet. The Brno archive requires users to create a log-in and password; records on the Trebon archive website are readily accessible. Instructions for accessing each database are found at https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Portal:Czech_Republic under “Online databases”. Slovakia: Karpatho-Germans Germans were living in the Carpathia region, now Slovakia, as early as the 12 th Century. By 1930, they constituted about five per cent of the population. Resources: Duncan B. Gardiner, German towns in Slovakia & Upper Hungary : a genealogical gazetteer, Gazetteer of German towns in the former kingdom of Hungary, now in Slovakia, Hungary, and Ukraine. [FHL 943.73 E5g 1991, FHL film # 1183659 Item 18 ] Includes sections on doing genealogical research on Germans in Eastern Europe and on Czech and Slovak research.
• http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/ESE/slovak.html - general information, links to maps, societies, lists of genealogical resources. Galicia The lands acquired by the Austro-Hungarian Empire as a result of the partitions of the Kingdom of Poland in 1772, 1815, and 1846 became the crown land of Galicia. It reached from Krakow in the West to L’viv in the East. Today, the Western half belongs to Poland, and the Eastern half to the Ukraine. The population was mostly Polish and Ruthenian, with a small German minority. Most of the Germans came from the South German areas and Austria, as well as the Sudetenland and other Germanspeaking areas. Helpful Web sites for locating German villages: • http://www.semanchuk.com/gen/maps/unterschutz.html - a good map showing the German villages in Galicia • http://www.semanchuk.com/gen/maps/UnterschutzIndex.html. - An index to the above map The German villages were generally either Catholic or Lutheran; very few were mixed. Catholic settlers tended to intermarry with the Polish majority. Lutherans did not assimilate as easily and thus maintained their German language and culture intro the 1900’s. Lists of original German settlers in Galicia are found in Das Kolonisationswerk Josefs II in Galizien by Ludwig Schneider [FHL INTL Q 943.86 W2sL, FHL INTL Film 1256477 Item 1] Helpful Web sites: • The Galizien German Descendants Society website http://www.galiziengermandescendants.org/ includes instructions for family history research, maps, village histories, pictures, and other helpful material. Very reasonably priced town genealogy books have been published on CD-Rom for many German villages in Galicia. Purchase information is found here. • www.galizien.org – includes extracted church records from German parishes in Western and Eastern Galicia. Click on “Datenbanken”. • http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/ESE/galicia.html - Includes addresses of archives that hold church records for the various regions. • http://www.eegsociety.org/Home.aspx -East European Genealogical Society • http://www.halgal.com/index.htm - includes sections on locating the ancestral town in Galicia, using gazetteers, finding records, and others - very informative. • http://www.lvov.us/galician-genealogy/ - Galician genealogy resources Bukovina Organized migration of Germans into the Bukovina began around 1775. In 1910, the Germans were the third largest ethnic group in Bukovina, with over 20 % of the population. German colonists came from three distinct areas: southwest Germany; the Böhmerwald area in the Czech Republic; and the Zips mountains, now Spis county, Slovakia. German emigration from Bukovina to the United States,
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