The 1921 Czechoslovak Census records for Subcarpatho-Rus (Podkarpatská Rus) are available online and fully accessible to browse. For CGSI with Rusyn roots, this collection is an absolute goldmine for tracking ancestors during the crucial interwar period.

Housed on the Hungaricana digital library platform, these images provide a rare, deeply detailed look into the families living in the easternmost province of the first Czechoslovak Republic.

🗂️ What You Can Find in These Records

The 1921 census is incredibly rich, capturing a snapshot of a population recovering from WWI and adapting to a new nation. On each sheet, you can uncover:

• Full names of every household member.
• Exact birth dates and birthplaces.
• Marital status and relationship to the head of the household.
• Citizenship, nationality/ethnicity, and religion (vital for navigating complex border shifts and ethnic identities like Rusyn, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Jewish, and Czech).
• Occupations and literacy status.
• Detailed residence information, including house numbers.

🌐 How to Access the Collection

• You can jump straight into the digital archives here:
  👉https://library.hungaricana.hu/en/collection/KANepszaml_001/

💡 Quick Tips for CGSI Members:

• Browse by District: The collection is organized by administrative districts (okres / járás). Knowing the village name and its corresponding district will help you drill down to the right book.
• Language Navigation: The Hungaricana interface can be switched to English (using the en link in the URL), making it easier to navigate the collection trees.
• Handwriting Hurdles: The forms themselves are bilingual (often Czech and Rusyn/Cyrillic or Hungarian). Keep a translation guide or alphabet chart handy as you scan the handwritten entries.

Have you found your family in the 1921 Podkarpatská Rus census yet? Share your discoveries, breakthrough moments, or formatting tips! 👇

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Here is the Genzer family on the 1869 census. They lived in Frenštát 89. You can see this lovely margin note about their passport number 7922 issued in 1880 to Amerika. František actually died before emigrating, and his wife left with all her kids. She started off in Texas but ended up in Oklahoma.

The Regional Archives of Opava (Zemský Archiv v Opavě) has digital copies of these records, and so does FamilySearch. Actually, census records in the Czech Republic are stored at the district - not regional - level. You would find them in the smaller SOkA archives, not the SOAs and ZAO and MZA Brno. 

Here is a link to the census records for MZA Brno.

Other things you might find on this kind of record include information about where they were born, typically including the village. 

Censuses were taken and survive and are available for some, but not all, places for these years: 1869, 1880, 1890, 1900, 1910