www.GenTeam.eu - Approximately 235.000 additional records online Vienna, May 17, 2014 New at GenTeam: 1. New Database: Citizens rolls of the Slovak city Bratislava/Preßburg 2. Medical database, Vienna: additional 11,750 new entries of the Oral Exam Volumes as of 1751 3. Diocese Passau, Germany: Corrections and additional 60,000 new entries 4. Index of Catholic Baptisms in Vienna: approximately 85,000 new entries 5. Parish Register Indices from Lower Austria, Upper Austria, and Moravia: approximately 70,500 new data sets Dear Colleagues, On our own account: With the new online databases, the 24,500 currently registered users have as of today about 10.6 million entries at their disposal. At this point, I would like to say a big thank you to all those individuals who have furnished GenTeam in the last 4 years with vital information, all those who work on long-term projects, but also those who work behind the scenes to ensure that GenTeam functions properly and continues to expand! GenTeam is a European platform, through which historians and genealogist who work independently or as a team on databases can furnish this data free of charge to all researchers. All data at GenTeam is available free of charge, since GenTeam is a nonprofit organization, and there is no membership fee. Other developments which were created parallel to GenTeam are a mailing list www.GenList.at with more than 1,500 members as well as a website for a genealogical link collection found under www.GenLink.at. Facebook (usually in German, only): Mrs. Mireille Trauner maintains our GenTeam Website found under www.facebook.com/GenTeam.Die.genealogische.Datenbank. There you will find all past updates. You are also cordially invited to an exchange of information in the field of genealogy in our newly established Facebook Page AiOeU-Ahnenforschung in Austria-Hungary: https://www.facebook.com/Ahnenforschung.in.Oesterreich.Ungarn Now to the new update: 1. New Database: Citizen’s Rolls of the City of Bratislava/formerly Pressburg, Slovak Republic Most books of the Citizen Rolls between 1630 and 1871 are still preserved. Book 1 (1630-1683), Book 4 (1754-1791) and Book 6 (1819-1871) were posted online at GenTeam; they provide besides the Last Name and First Name in part also profession, city of origin, confession and age. The books point straight from the outset that many Protestant exiles went from Lower Austria to Bratislava and remained there, and that they maintained a continuous close association with Protestant churches in Bratislava throughout the Monarchy as well as the close connection to the Catholic parishes in the Austrian part of the Monarchy. By kind permission of the City Archives of Bratislava: www.miny.sk 2. Medical Database: additional 11,750 new entries of the Rigorosen as of 1751 The Medical Database, which was kindly provided by Horst Dolezal, contains basic data from the rectory’s office oral examinations and promotional protocols of the medical faculty in Vienna from the years 1818 – 1938, and are complete with excerpts of the Study Catalogues of only Jewish students between the years 1862-1938, in total there are approximately 70,000 data sets. New: Another meaningful stock from the University Archive are the volumes of Oral Exams of the Dean’s office for surgeons, pharmacists, midwives, in nine volumes (Sign.Med 9.1 to Med 9.9) comprising the years 1751 – 1880. Four of these volumes are now completely indexed including basic data. They are: Med 9.1 Surgeons 1751 – 1822 Med 9.2 Surgeons 1822 – 1890 Med 9.3 Pharmacists 1751 -854 Med 9.4 Medical Doctors 1752 – 1821 3. Diocese Passau, Germany: Corrections for the and approximately 60,000 new entries The approximately 2,16 million parish registers from the Diocese Passau, Germany, contain about 440,000 marriages (now completed), approximately 1,1 million are baptisms and the rest are cases of deaths. You will find in this database the parish, volume, page number, Last Name, First Name, date/year, many times but not always the profession, and a residence address and city. The actual church book of the Diocese you will find online under www.matricula.online.eu. You will find a listing of parishes along with time tables under "Help/Information". The Archive of the Diocese Paussau and GenTeam give thanks for the imparted corrections and naturally also for the new data sets! 4. Baptismal Index for Vienna between 1585 and 1900 Approximately 85,000 new Data Sets, in total more than 550,000 Approximately 85,000 entries were added from the parishes Döbling, St. Josef Margarethen, Mariahilf, St. Josef in Vienna 2nd district, Rennweg, Wieden (Paulaner), St. Marx, and the Lower Austrian birthing center (Niederösterreichische Landesgebäranstalt Alservorstadt). At this point, I would like to extend my gratitude to Martina Ecker, Helga Hörmann, Marta Melchart, Andrea Reiter, Ernst Schroth, Gerda Smodej, Judith Starke, Walter Thurner, as well as to all who already work on additional indices which will be put online in the near future. In the 19th century approximately 3,5 million people from all the countries of the Habsburg Monarchy (and beyond) moved to Vienna. In 1910 Vienna’s population was approximately 2.1 million. Vienna was then the sixth largest city in the world. Almost all families in the monarchy had family connections to the city of Vienna. Unfortunately, to date there still is no central birth registry for Vienna besides the Jewish Birth Registry already published on www.GenTeam.eu I invite you all to help with this fascinating project, to create a complete general index of all baptisms. No travel or visits to parish offices are required; the indices can be furnished in digital form or they can be found partially on www.matricula-online.eu. Since there are only a few typed indices, fewer beautifully hand-written and some not so beautiful hand-written indices available, I am sure, interested collaborators will find some part to help. 5. Parish Indices -- new entries Approximately 70,000 entries from Catholic parish registers were added from Lower Austria, Upper Austria and Moravia. You will find the parishes with individual time tables at GenTeam under Hilfe (Help ). Lower Austria: Etzen, Heidenreichstein, Hohenruppersdorf, Jahrings, Kaumberg, Retz, Texing, Waldenstein, Wieselburg, and Wurmbrand. Upper Austria: Altheim, Bad Leonfelden Moravia: Hanusovice/formerly Hannsdorf At this point I would like to give many thanks to Dr. Ingeborg Heider, Rudolf Hütthaler, Konny Pommer, Karin Scharrer, Martina Schulz, Franz Spevacek, Christoph Tietz, Clemens Weidmann and Theodora Winkler. With the current updates, more than 2.6 million entries got online in 2014 at www.GenTeam.eu. We would be more than happy if you too would like to play a part with GenTeam by creating a database or furnishing an already completed database. However, should you only have any question, please contact me anytime. Sincerely yours, Felix Gundacker Pantzergasse 30/8 A-1190 Wien Telephone: 0043 676 40 11 059 email: [email protected] Datenbanken: www.GenTeam.eu Linksammlung: www.GenLink.at Mailing-Liste: www.GenList.at Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GenTeam.Die.genealogische.Datenbank „Connecting genealogists“