Societies and Researchers
Societies
Austrian Society for Research on Genealogy and Regional Heritage (ÖFR)
Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Familien- und regionalgeschichtliche Forschung (ÖFR)
Web: https://oefr.at/ (See: Introduction in English)
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Membership € 24 per calendar year (per 2018)
ADLER
Heraldisch-Genealogische Gesellschaft "ADLER"
Universitaetsstrasse 6 / 9b
P.O. Box 220 A-1096 Vienna
Austria
Tel.: +43-1-409 2578
Fax: +43-1-877 5493
E-mail: [email protected]
Internet: www.adler-wien.at (German) or www.adler-wien.eu (English)
The society was founded in 1870 and maintains an excellent library.
Membership fee: EURO 60,-- per year (as per 2014)
FAMILIA AUSTRIA
FAMILIA AUSTRIA
Österreichische Gesellschaft für Genealogie und Geschichte
Member of the highly respected Association Scientific Societies of Austria (VWGÖ)
Web: www.familia-austria.at and (WIKI) www.familia-austria.net
The membership fee per 2014 is EUR 40,-- per year.
GenTeam
GenTeam is a loose organization of genealogists or historians who produce databases on their own or as a part of a group, and who offer these databases to all researcher without any fee.
GenTeam is a non-commercial organization but it is associated with Ing. Felix Gundacker.
The following is a translated example of a GenTeam newsletter (in German) that is sent to registered users:
Facebook Groups and Pages
Some useful Facebook groups:
- Ahnenforschung Wien (closed group; in German)
- Ahnenforschung Niederösterreich (closed group; in German)
- Austrian Genealogy Group (closed group)
- Ahnenforschung Österreich (closed group; in German)
- Ahnenforschung & Geschichte im alten Österreich (closed group; in German)
- Ahnenforschung und Hausgeschichte in Österreich (closed group; in German)
- Eastern Europe Genealogy Research Community (closed group)
Some Facebook pages:
- Portal Ahnenforschung Österreich - Genealogie (related to the oefr.at site)
Researchers
- For assistance and advice you could contact your LDS FHC or one of the FHCs in Austria
Commercial Research Companies and Professional Researchers
- IHFF -Institute for Historical Family Research
Pantzergasse 30/8
A-1190 Vienna
Tel: +43 676 40 11 059
e-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.ihff.at
- Historikerkanzlei Genealogisch-Historische Recherchen GmbH
Georg-Coch-Platz 3/Top 9B
A-1010 Vienna
Tel.: +43 1 513 96 46
Fax: +43 1 513 96 46 - 50
E-Mail: [email protected]
Web: www.historiker.at
Historikerkanzlei was founded in 2004 by four historians in cooperation with a university professor for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna and has been concerned with global genealogic-historic research from the beginning.
The service package includes among others:
- Procurement of (historic) diploma, birth, marriage, and death certificates
- Procurement of citizenship certificates (if desired in cooperation with lawyers also their validation)
- Search for relatives and ancestors
- Drawing up genealogical trees
- Global search for unknown heirs
- Procurement of certificates ascertaining nobility status
- Procurement of documents necessary to claim restitution