Austrian empire passports?

Btree

Does this database include all Austrian passports issued 1911-1912, or only a subset?

1792-1918 Paßregister, 1792-1918 Passports of citizens recorded at Vienna, Niederösterreich, Austria.

My ancestors would have left Bukovina in 1911-1912. I have a passport number in case that helps.

Julia Szent-Györgyi

The catalog entry and title indicate that it's just passports "recorded at Vienna". I paged through the first several dozen images for 1911 and didn't see anything that I recognized as Bukovina, but it's That Dratted Handwriting (and some particularly miserable examples thereof), so I'm reluctant to conclude anything much from my observations. It's possible that Bukovina — being roughly 450 miles (as the crow flies) from Vienna — kept its own paperwork, probably in Czernowitz.

1911 is about 618 pages, and 1912 is about 644, for a total of 1260-odd images to browse through: not completely impossible, but not an enviable task. It's a chronological register, but I can't figure out which date it uses: date of application, or date of issuance, or something else? In any case, if you can figure out a more specific date for your relative's passports, you may be able to find something in these image groups, but your time may be better spent pursuing other leads. (The records basically just contain names, birthdates, and birthplaces.)

Btree

Thank you! How can I figure out what the column headers mean? Are the passport numbers recorded? It's ordered chronologically, and yet somehow the names appear to be clustered by first letter of surname…

MaureenE123

The Catalog entry in the original post says "Mikrofilm aufgenommen von Original im Stadtarchiv Wien, Austria"

The website is

https://www.wien.gv.at/kultur/archiv/

This English language page https://www.wien.gv.at/english/history/archives/ancestors.html says

The Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna only keep records of Viennese inhabitants and not of inhabitants of the other Austrian provinces! If your ancestors stated "Austria" as their nation of origin, they did not necessarily come from within the boundaries of modern Austria. They came from the Habsburg empire, a multi-national, multi-ethnic conglomerate. The records of the former crownlands and parts of the Austrian Empire are now in the archives of the modern states.

Btree

That's very helpful. Were passport records were retained by any archive for residents of Bukovina? They lived in Suceava, which is now Romania, but I don't see records labeled "passports" in the FamilySearch Catalog for Romania. And I don't see it mentioned in the Romania wiki

Julia Szent-Györgyi

As far as I know, FamilySearch has never been permitted to film or digitize records anywhere in Romania. What they have from that country consists entirely of records that are held elsewhere.

Heitor Augusto Dluhosch Schiochet

Does anyone know if FamilySearch is planning on indexing the files from Paßregister, 1792-1918, if so, when? I tried searching for information manually there and spent several days/weeks, but nothing came out of it.