Banat Family Research
Finding your Danube Swabian roots

 

Banat Reference Books
Published resources relating to Villages & Family Research

Banat Village Look-ups - Volunteers are listed on the Banat Village Index, under each village.

Banat Villages with German Inhabitants Church name - map keys

Temes County - Hungarian Property Tax 1828 Land Census
Hungarian Names of Villages & Cities & LDS / Family History Center Microfilm Numbers

Torontál County - Hungarian Property Tax 1828 Land Census
Hungarian Names of Villages & Cities & LDS / Family History Center Microfilm Numbers

Germans & Hungarians: 1828 Land Census - Mrs. Martha Remer Conner
About The Hungarian Property Tax 1828 Land Census

Banater Benefit Society & Banater Athletic Club Papers, Cleveland, Ohio, 1911-1960 Erster Deutsch-Ungarischer Unterstutzungs Verein (Banater Benefit Society and Banater Athletic Club Papers, Cleveland, Ohio, 1911-1960)

Original 1921 list of the original members of the Cleveland Banater Club
Deutsch Ungarischer Heim Fond


Deutsch-Ungarisher Familien Kalenders - Peter Schmidt

Dennis J. Bauer's Genealogical Banat Book Collection

Microfilms of Banat Parish Records

Banaters in the Austrian Military Records Vol. VI of the Banat History Series - D. Dreyer

Banat Church information and church photos by Heinz Vogel example:
Mercydorf   Carani   Ts   D. (Germans)-1304   85%
Röm. Kath. 1778   Erhöhung des   Hl. Kreuzes (
Rising of the Holy Catholic Cross )
Kw: Dritter Sonntag  im Okt. (
Kw: Third Sunday in Oct.)
Renoviert 2006 (renovated)

Vorsitzende der Heimatortsgemeinschaften (Banat HOG Chairpersons list)
in der Landsmannschaft der Banater Schwaben - last updated (Januar 2007)

Karen Hob's work on Austria-Hungarian Military Records is now on CD.  What extensive data she has accumulated in how to find our Danube Swabian ancestors through the military records. Its superb!  For more information or for ordering her CD, please contact Karen directly KarenHob@aol.com

Emigration from Banat in the National Archives Ship Records - David Dreyer

Pre-World War I Migration Patterns of Banat Germans to North America - Dave Dreyer

Ship Data: Information regarding the ships your Donauschwaben ancestors journeyed on immigrating to the US, may be provided by request.  See Sample Contact: John Schlesinger

Danube Swabians Death Database: List of Citizens killed by Marshall Tito's Regime

AKdFF - Arbeitskreis donauschwäbischer Familienforscher
Family Research in the Banat - Working Group of Danube Swabian Researchers

Familienforschung im Banat
The National Archives of Romania (Romania Arhivele Nationale)
Address: 49 Elisabeta Blvd.
RO-70602 Bucharest
Romania
Phone number: ++401 - 315 25 03
Fax number: ++401 - 312 58 41
Email: arhnat@mi.ro
Person to contact: Prof. dr Costin Fenesan, General Director

Online Romanian Directories at the Library of Congress - Begins with image number 1017 - go to this link and enter 1783 (to go to Timis) in the image box and click turn to image. 

The Library of Congress has digitized a historic, two-volume Romanian directory and made it available to the public at the Internet addresses below. The presentation is via "page-turner" display. (Note: these are "handles" or "permanent" URLs that have been established for these volumes.) Links to finding aids for both volumes appear below.

The Library of Congress's copy of Volume II, (Provincia) is the edition reprint dated 1924-1925, though, like Volume I, it most likely reflects information compiled around 1922-23. It covers the rest of Romania other than Bucharest. Its several sections have separate paginations, adding up to over 2,200 pages. It begins with Part IV, Provinces of the Old Kingdom. Part V concerns The New Roumanian Annexed Provinces - Bucovina, Transilvania, Banat, Crisana, Maramures, Basarabia. These parts are arranged by judet, then by city or commune. It lists organizations, businesses, directors, owners, etc. It concludes with indexes of the villages and towns listed in the volume. The finding aid for Volume II provides further detail.
 

Ardealul: Transilvania, Banat, Crisana, Maramures.
Covers digital image numbers 983-1912 [corresponding to original page numbers 1-896]. Images 983-1016 provide general information and statistics on Ardeal, in French, German and Romanian.

The Open Society Archives -- OSA: an archives and a center for research and education. (Includes Romania and Banat area) Its collections and activities relate to the period after the Second World War, mainly The Cold War, The history of the formerly communist countries, Human rights, and War crimes. Search or Browse OSA holdings, also in Russian, Hungarian.

Institute for Cultural Memory - Great search site for current road maps in Romania: Type in a town or village name (must be the official name) and it bring it up on a current map!  You have a choice to layer it according to the following: National Archaeological Record, Archaeological excavations, Museums in Romania, Places of Worship, Stream network, Roads and Railroads.

Monasteries & Churches in Romania


 

New Village Books . . .

Finding Vital 1796-1945 Data Regarding German and Hungarian Ancestors of Banat(ska) Topola and Novo Selo, Plus an Exposé About the Local 1945-1946 Internment Camp for Germans of Yugoslavia;
By Jacob Steigerwald, Ph. D.
 

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