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​Osterreich Armee Films​

Added 08 January 2017

 

Family Search have now digitized the Austrian Military Archives collection of the surviving military personnel records for the Imperial Austrian Army. The  films are arranged by regiment number.   There is no index to the names in each film. Unless you know the regiment your ancestor served in it is difficult to extract useful information from this collection.

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This page is a repository for  transcriptions of  personnel records for Imperial Austrian Army regiments connected to the Transcarpathian region of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

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For a comprehensive discussion in English  on Austro-Hungarian Military records please refer to the blog post by Carl Kotlarchik entitled: Austro-Hungarian Army Records: A Guide to locating Austro-Hungarian Military Records. The link is given below.

[NB: The link to the A-H army regiment map is broken. I have provided a wayback link and also posted  my copy of teh map.]

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General Notes on Transcriptions:

Accented letters (diacritics) were not transcribed. For example,   we transcribed  'Janos Kovacs'.  NOT 'János Kovács'

The original data is on the familysearch.org website. You will need to log-in to Family Search before you can view the images.

The forms are written in German. Links to guides on reading German handwriting are given below.

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A limited set of data was transcribed. 

Image Number: (Image number of the Family Search Digitized Film)

Last Name  (Zu Name): Family Name, Surname

First Name (Zauf Name): First Name, christian name

Ort:

Bezirk:

Kreis oder Comitat

Land (Country):

Geburts Jahr (Year of Birth):

Comments: If you need to add a comment, please write in your native language.

Heft (Book):

Seite (Page:

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Many of the forms contain a second page of additional notes.  Personnel data is duplicated for these additional pages.

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Note that the spelling of towns often uses old spelling notation. eg:  'Kalotza' instead of Kalocza. Names are usually spelled using the German form, but not always.

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Place names:

Most commonly you will see personnel from the following 'countries' as per the designations used in that period:

Ungarn (Hungary)

Seibernburgen (German name for Transylvania, now in Romania)

Bohmen (Bohemia)

Mahren (Moravia)

Oesterreich (Neider or Ober): Upper and Lower Austria

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Within Ungarn (Hungary) , most commonly personnel originate from Marmaros (Marmaros vm), Bereg v.m, Ugocsa v.m, Ung v.m, Borsod (vm), Zemplin (Zemplen vm), Pesth Solter (Pest District). In this period Bereg-Ugocsa were combined into one county.

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A discussion board for this project for members  is available at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/carpathian-roots

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