This index of historical national, regional and local newspapers, periodicals and gazettes from Austria was created through the use of MyHeritage’s advanced optical character recognition (OCR) of articles dating back to 1622. Newspapers are a leading resource for historical and genealogical research as they are full of detailed information about potential ancestors across your family tree, through a wide range of vital record substitutes such as birth, marriage, death notices and obituaries.<br><br>More information about the history of a community can be discovered through society pages and stories of local interest that can contain detailed records of activities and events and often provide more information about the persons involved, as well as the context of the times in which an ancestor may have lived. Images for these newspapers are available on <a href="https://www.oldnews.com/en" target="blank">OldNews.com</a>.
