The complete work consists of 170 sheets which are available individually and sheets that are out of print are provided as photocopies. The place names used in these maps are frequently the same as used in old property records. Copies from an AD1170 map. This edition dates from 1918 and has not been republished. For detailed, comprehensive information, however, there exist the archives and document centers.
Archives are the memory of humanity.
They preserve the written, pictorial and audio-visual record of public administrative authorities and private institutions, for example, documents and contracts, diplomatic correspondence and negotiation protocols, land registers and reclamations, tax registers and population statistics, church records and obituaries, registration notes and home records, death observance protocols, testaments and abandonments, inspection notices, hated relatives and favored lists, day books and chronicles, maps, building plans and technical drawings, portraits, picture postcards, photos and so on, more recently also audio tapes, videos and electronic media. The Austrian archives preserve namely the written record of a world empire, the sheer, unassessable mass of the old Habsburg monarchy. In Salt Lake City a large center for family history was established. Microfilms and microfiches are kept in the Rocky Mountains in huge underground storage rooms. Other FHCs can be found in several provinces of Austria.