Stari Trg ob Kolpi Records

Parish Church of St. Jozef in Stari Trg ob Kolpi

Parish registers of baptisms, marriages, and deaths (1632 - 1837)

Matricula Online - Records for Stari trg ob Kolpi [New ONLINE SITE 2021]

• Krstna knjiga / Taufbuch - Births - 1672-1719. 1737-1857

• Mrliška knjiga / Sterbebuch - Deaths - 1771-1823, 1819-1836, 1838-1857

• Poročna knjiga / Trauungsbuch - Marriage - 1767-1770, 1812-1883

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Altenmark (Tschernembl), Krain, Austria; now Stari trg ob Kolpi (Črnomelj), Slovenija

Left-side pages (l. S.) sometimes filmed separately from right-side pages (r. S.) Text in Latin, Slovenian, and German. (Some pages are overexposed). Download images and rename them by page number to easily see left & right.

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Marriage records for the 1770-1812 period are included

Cemetery Photos

• Stari trg ob Kolpi Cemetery - Photographs of many of the tombstones

• Find A Grave - St. Jozefa Cemetery - - 439 memorials & photos

Status Animarum Records

Status Animarum translates as “the state of souls.” They contain names and information about baptism, marriage, burial, and relationship to head of household for everyone living in a parish by house number. Spouses often show the town and house where they were born or moved. They were kept by the parish priests for internal purposes. Handwriting and format varies by priest. These were filmed at the church.

• Book B is the earliest covering 1846-1874 - Any prior records would be at the Ecclesiastical Archives in Ljubljana

• Books A & C cover 1875 - 1886 - all are online - only a few are indexed

• Book D includes a number of living people so it has not been posted

These records were filmed during March, 1999 at the church by Mark & Nancy Ohlde.

See the article Cousin to Cousin at Genealogy According to Jeff for a little background.

See Locations for the towns, villages, or settlements that are included.

Photographs have also been posted for many of the villages.

Unfortunately the current house numbers do not match those in the older church records.

- Follow the Google map link on the page to see the location of the villages

Scroll North & South as necessary.

Status Animarum Records - Terms & Format

• • Gostači = laborers, a very mobile group that did not own property

  • Nezakonski = illegitimate

  • Žen = wife, Roman numerals often used for other wives II Žen, III Žen, etc

  • Nativitatis = Birth Date, the months are similar to English.

  • Marriage and Death Dates are European format day/month/year - months occasionally in roman numberals

For more information about the records:

• • • Archiepiscopal Archives of Ljubljana - http://www.culture.si/en/Archiepiscopal_Archives_of_Ljubljana

    • Official site in Slovenian - http://nadskofija-ljubljana.si/nadskofija/nadskofijski-arhiv/

    • Archives of Slovenia - Use of Records - http://www.arhiv.gov.si/en/use_of_archival_records/

The record images are posted at Google Photos

• • See the Locations page for a list of the towns and records online

Unfortunately direct links to the individual pages are not currently supported.

• Click on a record and then scroll by collection and house or use View All to jump ahead.

• Turn on the photo details to see the name and location map.

• Internet Explorer lets you right click and save the image, Microsoft Edge does not.

The entire collection will eventually be posted and indexed

Hopefully volunteers can help to index or transcribe the records.

• • Please send me a list of names or at least surnames for a household.

  • If you enter one indivdual of the family in FamilySearch Family Tree then most of the others can also be added.

  • Let me know if a portion of a household is in FamilySearch Family Tree - and site the source as

Saint Joseph - Stari trg ob Kolpi Parish Church Status Animarum - online at www.Alenjes.com

Sample Record

Each town has records for each household listing the individuals and various details including birth, marriage, and death dates along with maiden names and birth house, and other notes.

Sample - The 1875-1886 record for Prelesje Book A (house) St05 - Jozef Kapš