st polten, the capital of lower austria, has digitised 5 million of it's parish records from 1563 and is making them freely available online. hopefully the rest of austria will follow:
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Looks as if the actual material is here: http://www.dsp.at/dasp/doc/matricula.html
But you probably need to be able to read German! ... Ah, no, the Austrains have been more international-friendly: http://matricula-online.eu/?lang=en
ChristineResearching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...
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Originally posted by kylejustin View Postwould their records be in german? i would have thought austrian. we had 2 german exchange students and one austrian in high school. the austrian spoke german, bu the german's barely understood her, so i guess they are quite different languages.
You find some thing similar (but more extreme) with Schwitzer Dutsch (or however they actually spell what is Schweitzer Deutsch - Swiss German!). All of the different areas of Germany have their own characteristic accents/dialects. When we go to our friendly B&B on the Mosel, they have a local accent, but also a local dialect which I certainly don't understand! In the Cologne area, they speak "Kölsch" - a lot of instances of "ch" (as in Scottish "loch") get pronounced as "sh". Bavaria also has its own accent and dialect words - many of which overlap with Austrian.
It's a bit like the experience of someone used to the English of the south trying to understand a strong Geordie or Scouse accent say - or Glaswegian. In fact any strong local accent (Norfolk, Devon, Cornwall, Cockney, Medway...): the language is mostly much the same, but the accent can make it difficult to understand if it isn't your own!
ChristineLast edited by Christine in Herts; 21-04-13, 22:30.Researching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...
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