Heritage Films Bohemia

Links and Resources

Besides producing films, we provide verified online sources and freely available materials to help with genealogical research. On this page you’ll find a list of the most important links I personally use, including an interactive map of archives with digitized parish registers.

There are hundreds of additional links to genealogical resources — on our website we list only the most important ones. For a comprehensive and very extensive collection of research links, we recommend Neznámo.cz.

Interactive Map of Online Archives – Registers and Records

Click the map to get a direct link to the archive responsible for the selected location.

Map of the Czech Republic: regions and districts

On mobile devices: single tap highlights the archive; double tap opens the website.

Archives in the Czech Republic

Prague City Archives (AHMP) Registers and collections for Prague; digitized books and the reading room.
SOA Prague Central Bohemia — extensive digitized registers and collections.
SOA Třeboň South Bohemia — extensive digitized registers and collections.
SOA Litoměřice Northern/North-West Bohemia — registers and regional collections.
SOA Zámrsk (ARON) Eastern Bohemia — Pardubice & Hradec Králové regions; registers and indexes.
Provincial Archives in Opava Moravia and Silesia — archival collections, registers; regional reading rooms.
MZA Brno — ActaPublica Parish registers for Central and Southern Moravia.
Porta fontium Czech–Bavarian area (Plzeň & Karlovy Vary Regions) — registers and digitized sources.
National Archives — Vademecum Central reading room and inventories; selected digitized collections.

Archives Worldwide

FamilySearch Global genealogical platform — catalogues, indexes, and scans (free).
Matricula Online Austria, Germany, Poland, etc. — digitized parish books.
Archion (DE) German Protestant registers (paid access).
Szukaj w Archiwach (PL) Polish state archives — millions of scans and descriptive records.
Hungaricana (HU) Hungarian archives and collections — registers, maps, periodicals.

Maps

CÚZK — Archival Maps Stable cadastre, cadastral sketches, imperial prints, aerial photos.
OldMapsOnline Aggregator of historical maps from many institutions worldwide.
Arcanum Maps Detailed historical maps of Central Europe (Habsburg Monarchy).
David Rumsey Map Collection One of the world’s largest collections of historical maps.

Databases and Tools

Kramerius Digital libraries (newspapers, magazines, regional prints; National Library, etc.).
Monasterium.net Charters and deeds — medieval and early modern across Europe.
MeyersGaz German gazetteer (Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon) — parish identification.
GOV (Genealogisches Ortsverzeichnis) Historical index of places, boundaries and administrative links (DE and beyond).
Transkribus Advanced handwriting transcription (HTR) — useful for old registers and charters.
Memory of Nations Interviews and stories of witnesses; audio and video archives.
Legionnaires Database (VÚA Prague) Records of the Czechoslovak Legions and their members.
Vanished Villages Map and index of vanished settlements in the Czech Republic (historical & post-war).
Nobility and Heraldry Database Overview of families, coats of arms and basic genealogies (reference databases).
Railway Workers Archive Links and collections about employees and railway history (corporate archives).

Downloadable Graphics

We’re preparing free family-tree templates, wallpapers, and other visual materials. Below is a sample gallery (click to expand to fullscreen):

Family tree template — sample
Wallpaper with a historical map — sample
Icons and video elements — sample