I have translated a letter I received from the Austrian Genealogical Society which is making us aware of "on line" obituaries extracted from various newspapers published within the Old Austrian Hungarian Monarchy. While they have made good progress with the larger cities, your own research may carry you to individual smaller towns. Should you research such obits of a particular village, you are invited to capture the entire list for their records. A contact email is given to project manager Claudia Weck, who coordinates this effort. The translation of the newsletter from the Austrian Genealogical Society is below. Aida Wiener Genealogenstammtisch (WGSt.) c / o Günther Ofner, Gentzgasse 59 / 9, A-1180 Vienna, Austria http://familia-austria.net/forschung/index.php?title=WIENER_GENEALOGEN_-_STAMMTISCH Ladies and gentlemen! As you probably know, our club FAMILIA AUSTRIA extracted obituaries not only from the Wiener Zeitung 1703 - 1884 (currently over 638 000 records = http://www.familia-austria.at ) We have about 60% of the overall project in our database available. Link: / wiener zeitung / wz_daten.php, and not only from the Wiener Zeitung but from other cities of the old Habsburg monarchy. A more detailed description can be found at: As of February 2010 we have started with newspapers from: - Prague - Bratislava - Pest (Ofenpest / Budapest) - Innsbruck - Klagenfurt Soon we will add: - Baden bei Wien . These cities are also in our program - Bludenz (Vorarlberg) - Eger (Bohemia) - Graz (Steiermark) - Mikulov (Moravia) - Liberec (Bohemia) FAMILIA AUSTRIA is looking for volunteers and invites you to participate in this project, especially if one of these city is of interest to you in your research. The system is similar to the project Wiener Zeitung. You can contact the project manager Claudia Weck [email protected] for enhanced Excel data entry. The newspapers themselves are old (available with one exception) accessible from the network, so anyone from any point on this earth can participate. The final months will be fed into a new database of project FAMILIA AUSTRIA. 7000 records have now been captured and this new database will soon unlock periodicals. As with the project Wiener Zeitung, this database is not only for interested researchers of cities mentioned here, but when finished will include obituaries from the surrounding regions of the entire Habsburg monarchy. This project of the Wiener Zeitung can only become reality when many colleagues join in the program PERIODICA. Since some of these towns were rather small at that time, it is a small manageable monthly list of about 40-50 records. FAMILIA AUSTRIA therefore invites you to participate in the project to record information from these periodicals and thus help to expand knowledge for the benefit of all family researchers in Central Europe. To coordinate the project, monthly reservations, Excel data entry table, and any questions about this project please use: [email protected] Yours sincerely, Dkfm. Helmuth Tautermann & Günter Ofner Viennese genealogist's table (WGSt.)