To identify locations and old city names can be a problem.
Browsing through databases you can face a problem how to identify old names of the cities. Here you find few hints & tips on how to solve that. Try to combine Interactive Atlas, PlaceFinder, Index of Sudetten "Kreisen", Old Austro-Hungarian City Indexes and "Shtetl" Seeker as well.
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MapQuest! Interactive Atlas
Very useful PlaceFinder - able to transcribe the names
Shtetl Seeker in Central/Eastern Europe
Enourmous database on Austro-Hungarian Empire
Genealogie Sudetten
Maps of Austro-Hungarian Empire
Czech-German Index of Places
Bohemian Villages e.g. starting with P
Vital records of Bohemia and Moravia in nowadays Czech Republic:
The remnants of all Jewish Vital Records have been collected in
Central State Archive in Prague 6
while Catholic�s and Protestant�s Parish Records are stored in 8 regional archives which are located in:
Plze�
(for the regions of: Cheb, Doma�lice, Karlovy Vary, Klatovy, Plze�, Rokycany, Sokolov, Tachov)
Litom��ice
(for the regions of: �esk� L�pa, Chomutov, D���n, Jablonec n.Nisou, Liberec, Litom��ice, Louny, Most, Teplice, Ust� nad Labem)
Praha and Central Bohemia
(Bene�ov, Beroun, Rakovn�k, Kladno, Kol�n, Kutn� Hora, M�ln�k, Mlad� Boleslav, Nymburk, P��bram)
Zamrsk
(for the regions of: Chrudim, Hradec Kr�lov�, Ji��n, N�chod, Rychnov, Semily, Svitavy, Trutnov, �sti nad Orlic�)
Opava
(for the upper parts of the regions of: Brunt�l, Fr�dek-M�stek, Nov� Ji��n, �umperk)
Olomouc
(for the regions of: Olomouc, Prerov, Vsetin)
(for the lower parts of the regions of: Brunt�l, Fr�dek-M�stek, Nov� Ji��n, �umperk)
T�ebo�
(for the regions of: �esk� Bud�jovice, Jind�ich�v Hradec, Pelh�imov, P�sek, Prachatice, Strakonice, T�bor)
Brno
(for the regions of: Blansko, B�eclav, Hodon�n, Jihlava, Krom���, Prost�jov, T�eb��, Uhersk� Hradi�t�, Vy�kov, Zl�n, Znojmo, �d�r nad S�zavou)
location/opening hours of archives