To identify locations and old city names can be a problem.
Browsing through databases you can face a problem how to identify old names of the cities. Here you find few hints & tips on how to solve that. Try to combine Interactive Atlas, PlaceFinder, Index of Sudetten "Kreisen", Old Austro-Hungarian City Indexes and "Shtetl" Seeker as well.
Try to look here
MapQuest! Interactive Atlas
Very useful PlaceFinder - able to transcribe the names
Shtetl Seeker in Central/Eastern Europe
Enourmous database on Austro-Hungarian Empire
Genealogie Sudetten
Maps of Austro-Hungarian Empire
Czech-German Index of Places
Bohemian Villages e.g. starting with P
Vital records of Bohemia and Moravia in nowadays Czech Republic:
The remnants of all Jewish Vital Records have been collected in
Central State Archive in Prague 6
while Catholic´s and Protestant´s Parish Records are stored in 8 regional archives which are located in:
Plzeň
(for the regions of: Cheb, Domažlice, Karlovy Vary, Klatovy, Plzeň, Rokycany, Sokolov, Tachov)
Litoměřice
(for the regions of: Česká Lípa, Chomutov, Děčín, Jablonec n.Nisou, Liberec, Litoměřice, Louny, Most, Teplice, Ustí nad Labem)
Praha and Central Bohemia
(Benešov, Beroun, Rakovník, Kladno, Kolín, Kutná Hora, Mělník, Mladá Boleslav, Nymburk, Příbram)
Zamrsk
(for the regions of: Chrudim, Hradec Králové, Jičín, Náchod, Rychnov, Semily, Svitavy, Trutnov, Ústi nad Orlicí)
Opava
(for the upper parts of the regions of: Bruntál, Frýdek-Místek, Nový Jičín, Šumperk)
Olomouc
(for the regions of: Olomouc, Prerov, Vsetin)
(for the lower parts of the regions of: Bruntál, Frýdek-Místek, Nový Jičín, Šumperk)
Třeboň
(for the regions of: České Budějovice, Jindřichův Hradec, Pelhřimov, Písek, Prachatice, Strakonice, Tábor)
Brno
(for the regions of: Blansko, Břeclav, Hodonín, Jihlava, Kroměříž, Prostějov, Třebíč, Uherské Hradiště, Vyškov, Zlín, Znojmo, Ždár nad Sázavou)
location/opening hours of archives