Austria Project

Profile managers: Jutta Beer [send private message] and Jochen Oberreiter [send private message]

Welcome to the Project

Our aim is to support research and collaboration on profiles of Austrian Heritage or Origin, and to foster connections among researchers with common interests and the development of shared resources to advance these aims. We aim to be an asset to the wikitree community and to Austrian Genealogy in general. We encourage development of Name and Place studies pertinent to Austrian Roots.

How To Join

Project Leader: This project is in need of a Leader. Are you interested?

Current Coordinators: Jochen Oberreiter and Jon P. Czarowitz.

Team Members (in alphabetical order): Jutta Beer, Cristina Corbellani, Scott Hendricks, Roger Koehler, Stephan Krutak, M. Nußbacher.

If you would like to be involved in the Austria project, please do the following:

1. Add AUSTRIA to your list of followed tags. That way you'll see all of our discussions in your G2G Feed.
2. Drop one of the coordinators a line, he adds you to the members list ( = trusted list of this site). We have no dedicated badge at the moment.
3. Maybe you can add your name to the list below (see Our Progress), along with a note about what you're working on in this project right now.

Goals

Any improvements you can make to linking the profiles of the Austrians in your (or others) family are welcome, but here are some specific goals we're working towards:

For each person:

• All duplicates merged into the final, lowest possible profile ID,
• Search original rather than derivative documentation and add sources,
• Template included on the page along with any relevant categories,
• Bio is cleaned up, free of any GEDCOM junk, Ancestry trees, etc., and ideally has an actual written bio.

For the following categories:

• Minimization of the Unconnected profiles
• Minimization of the Unregioned profiles
• Elimination of the Unsourced profiles

Communicating with the project

Ideas or questions? Need help? The Austria G2G Forum is our way to communicate. It's very important all members participate and communicate here, so if you have ideas or questions, or something else related to the project please

• respond / add it at the Austria G2G Forum
• and / or tag it with AUSTRIA
• and add a profile ID or link, if it's about a profile you request help for.

This way we all can discuss things, and help others that need help with Austrian profiles.

Still unsure / don't know how? See Help page: About G2G.

Templates

Stickers

The Sticker Box for this project is Template:Austria_Sticker.

Ancestor / Roots

Adding the Nonmigrating Ancestor Template or the Heritage Sticker template:

Code used	Displayed as
{{Nonmigrating Ancestor|addinfo={{Name}} was born in Austria|flag=Austrian_Flags.png|tooltip=Flag of Austria}}	... was born in Austria
{{Heritage Sticker}}	... has honored ancestors.
{{Heritage Sticker|ancestors=Austrian|imagetext=Tree silhouette}}	... has Austrian ancestors.
{{Heritage Sticker|roots=Austrian|image=Austrian_Flags.png|imagetext=Flag of Austria}}	... has Austrian roots.
{{Heritage Sticker|heritage=Austrian|image=Austrian_Flags.png|imagetext=Flag of Austria}}	... is proud of his Austrian heritage.
{{Heritage Sticker|heritage=rich|female=yes}}	... is proud of her rich heritage.

Migration

For those people that migrated from Austria to another country, you can also use the Migrating Ancestor Template, as seen on the right:

... ... ... migrated from Austria to United States.

{{Migrating Ancestor

|origin = Austria

|destination = United States

|origin-flag = Austrian_Flags.png

|destination-flag = 50star.gif

}}

For lists of destination flags to choose from, go to Category:Flag_Images.
For general info on categorizing, look at Help Page: Categorization and Help Page: Project Needs.

Sub-Projects (and Categories)

• Historical Regions of Austria
• Austrian Genealogy Resources
• Austrian Flags
• Austrian History
• Austrian Notables
• Austrian Artists
• Austrian Cemeteries
• Austrian Emigrants
• Austria Location Categories - these are currently being set up, see Austria Location Categories for guidance.

Sources

Project list of preferred primary sources:

• Archives (birth, death, marriage or any other official registrations/records),
• Military records,
• Will and estate records,
• Court records,
• Burial records,
• Books that cite primary sources. This would include books that transcribe birth/marriage/death records as well as authored family histories or trees that cite birth/marriage/death records,
• History books that would have collected information from the subjects themselves,
• Newspaper articles with the publication name, date, and location.

Good news: Almost all austrian church records (primary sources!) are available for free online. See Austria Genealogy Resources for an (non-exhaustive) list.

Our Progress

Beside your name below, please keep track of what you're currently working on for this project. This is both for your own reference, and to aid collaboration amongst the project participants. Thanks!

Specific To Do List

This table is for specific items that need to be completed, not for general goals like "merge all Austrian duplicate profiles". If you don't feel comfortable editing a wiki table but want to add a to-do item to the list, please list it below the table and one of the project leaders will integrate it into the table. To volunteer to work on an item, find where it says Volunteer Needed right beneath the task you want to work on. Replace Volunteer Needed with your name and WikiTree ID (be careful not to remove the | at the start of the line).

Related Projects and Groups

The following projects and groups as well as free space pages are likely to have some overlap with the Austrian project, so members of this project may be interested in them as well (and vice versa):

• Project Galicia
• German Roots
• Slavic Roots
• European Aristocrats
• Global Cemeteries

and generally

• Global Family Reunion
• Notables
• Profile Improvement

There are also a bunch of free space pages with reference to Austria in some way:

• German diaspora: Emigration during the mid-19th Century
• Austrian Location Categories