Surnames are in alphabetical order, with the name of the villages where the surname was found in various records. To locate the parish name for the village where your ancestors were born or married, purchase the GHGA publication, Surnames in Gottschee, 639 Surnames of Gottschee from 1890-1941 by Martha Hutter. After 1918, the people in this territory became citizens of Yugoslavia. Prior to 1918, the territory was within the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the people were Austrian citizens. The films are located under Austria, Krain, (German spelling of village name) or Slovenia, Kocevje, (Slovenian spelling of the village name). If you do not want to purchase the above publication, the microfilm numbers can be obtained at the LDS Family History Library. When the authorities filmed the records in 1941, they filmed all the right side pages, then the left side pages, as the parish books were very large. Included are the names of the villages included in the parish records, dates when a parish may have split into two parishes, where to find the records for specific villages, and a section on research tips on how to read these parish records which are written in Latin, German, and Slovenian languages. GHGA has published a booklet Gottschee: Family Records Research Using LDS Microfilm by Kate Pruente, to help the researcher locate the microfilm numbers within each parish. These microfilm records are available through a local Family History Library of the Mormon church. In the 1980s, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS, the Mormon church) made copies of these microfilm records. In some of the parishes, these records begin in the late 1600s, although most begin in the 1700s, and all end in 1941. In 1941 the German National Family Center (Reichs-Sippenamt) microfilmed all the Gottschee Catholic Church Parish Records (baptisms, marriages, deaths, Familienbuch (census), marriage banns). Microfilmed Catholic Church Parish Records of Gottschee Original microfilms of the Catholic Church records of Gottschee are located in Liepzig, Germany.Church Archives in Ljubljana, Slovenia. ![]() Immigrant passenger records of Castle Garden (1855-1890) and Ellis Island (1892-1954) for Gottscheers who emigrated from Gottschee in the 1800s and early 1900s.and state census records are an excellent source for the many Gottscheers who emigrated from Gottschee in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The main source of genealogical records of Gottscheers born prior to 1941 are the microfilmed Catholic church parish records of Gottschee.
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