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Passport application records

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Posted to Message board on September 23, 2013 by Ladmanfinder.
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I’m told my ancestor held an Austrian passport issued in 1853 (likely because Bohemia was part of the Austrian empire at that time).

Anyone have any idea if passport application records from this era still exist, and if they do where I would find them?

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Comment by jan.esenwein on January 14, 2014 at 12:05pm

My ancestors came over in 1860, and we have their exit visa and birth/marriage documents that they needed when they left. We were told that the passport applications no longer existed, but our researcher in the Trebon Archives found it, reportedly in a box of uncatalogued documents.

So I am guessing the answer to your question is that they might exist, and a researcher who is very familiar with those archives might be able to find them.