Matrika Registers
Birth, marriage, and death registers from Czech and Slovak matrika systems that anchor families to a parish, village, or district office.
What We Research
The records that usually unlock Czech and Slovak family lines.
We focus on the sources that move a case forward fastest: vital registrations, parish books, archive-held resident records, emigrant paperwork, and the deeper administrative files that explain why the same family appears under different languages or borders.
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Read the Czech and Slovak records guideChurch Records
Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Greek Catholic, and other confessional records for baptisms, marriages, burials, witnesses, and household clues.
Census and Resident Records
Household enumerations, conscription-style lists, and population records that help connect one family across multiple decades and addresses.
Emigration Records
Passenger manifests, naturalisation files, passport trails, and overseas records that preserve the village clue needed for homeland research.
Nobility and Administrative Files
Noble-line material, citizenship papers, military traces, land files, and state records when the search moves beyond core vital events.
Key Archives
Czech and Slovak archives matter only when the locality is mapped correctly.
A Czech village can point toward Prague or Brno holdings. A Slovak hometown may require a regional state archive rather than the first national institution a descendant finds online. Koreni starts by placing the family inside the right district, confession, and imperial context so the archive request goes to the right place the first time.
National Archives of the Czech Republic (NA)
NA Praha supports broader Czech state, military, administrative, and nobility research once the family is tied to the correct historical jurisdiction.
Moravian Provincial Archives (MZA)
MZA Brno is a key repository for Moravian matrika books, land records, and regional archival material used in Bohemian and Moravian family reconstruction.
State Archives of Slovakia (SNA)
SNA Bratislava and the regional Slovak archives are essential for locating parish books, civil records, and Austro-Hungarian administrative files.
FamilySearch Czech & Slovak Collections
Digitized LDS microfilm collections often surface church books and archival references that help confirm the right locality before direct archive requests.
Challenges We Solve
The part that slows most Czech and Slovak searches is not effort. It is context.
Families often have a surname and an immigrant story, but the records sit under a different language, a different historical district, or a different archive than modern maps suggest. That is where Koreni closes the gap.
German-language records in Bohemia and Sudetenland communities, even for families who later identified as Czech
Latin church entries and old palaeography that make names, occupations, and villages easy to misread
Austro-Hungarian administrative geography that separates record custody from modern national borders
Post-1945 expulsions, border changes, and archive transfers that can shift where local family records survive
Our 4-Step Process
01
Intake
We review the surnames, migration clues, family stories, and documents you already hold to identify the strongest Czech or Slovak locality lead.
02
Archive Search
Koreni targets the correct matrika office, church archive, or national repository instead of sending generic requests to the wrong district.
03
Document
We obtain and interpret the most useful records, reconciling German, Latin, Czech, Slovak, and Hungarian variants across the same family line.
04
Report
You receive a clear findings report with sourced family links, translated record details, archive references, and practical next steps.
Czech & Slovak Research FAQ
Questions families ask before hiring a Czech or Slovak genealogy researcher.
If you want the archive and emigration landscape explained in more depth first, the Koreni guide covers the DIY path in detail.
Read: Czech and Slovak GenealogyWhat if my ancestor is listed as Bohemian, Moravian, Austrian, or Czechoslovak in US records?
That is common. We treat those labels as historical clues rather than contradictions, then work backward from the village, parish, and migration timeline to identify the right Czech or Slovak archive path.
Can you work with German or Latin records from Czech lands?
Yes. Many Bohemian and Moravian families appear in German-language civil or church records, and older entries may be in Latin. Koreni reads those record contexts as part of normal Czech and Slovak genealogy work.
Do I need the exact home village to begin Czech or Slovak genealogy research?
The village is the strongest starting point, but not always required at the outset. Passenger lists, naturalisation papers, church records abroad, obituaries, and fraternal lodge records can often provide the missing locality clue.
Why do Slovak records sometimes appear in Hungarian rather than Slovak?
Most 19th-century Slovak genealogy sits inside the Kingdom of Hungary, so later imperial-era records often use Hungarian administrative and place-name forms. We map those historical names to the correct modern archive and parish.
Start Your Czech or Slovak Family Search
Start Your Czech or Slovak Family Search
If your family story runs through Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, or old Czechoslovakia, Koreni can turn scattered clues into a documented research plan and archive search.
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