Conscriptions ( 1850 – 1914 ) – Applications for Residence Permit of Prague Police Headquarters
Abstract
Police registration forms (conscriptions) are deposited in the National Archives in the archival fond Police Headquarters Prague, forming part of paper documents of general registry of this office. It is an independent whole amounting to 739 registration units (cardboard boxes) which represents ca 700,000 registration sheets mostly from 1850 – 1914. It contains material from several different registration offices of the Prague police region. The registration forms were then centrally deposited in the so called Meldeamt, they are filed in alphabetical order irrespective of original territorial citizenship and temporal succession. The used alphabet was neither rigorously Czech nor German, we could call it a“police“ alphabet.