This database is courtesy of BB member Charles von Breitenbach, who has ancestors with a long history in Steingraben. This began as a personal project to transcribe Catholic birth records for family members in Steingraben but expanded to include all birth records for Steingraben found in the records of its Catholic parish, Gerersdorf bei Güssing (Hungarian: Németszentgrót). Later, I pushed Charles into helping transcribe all death records for Steingraben and I chose to transcribe the corresponding marriages.

The transcription of Steingraben records from the Gerersdorf Catholic parish books is for the years 1828 to 1895 and currently consists of the complete transcription of the 747 birth records, 204 marriage records, and 559 death records. Copyright remains with Charles von Breitenbach and Thomas Steichen.

Further, included is a complete transcription of the 304 Steingraben birth records, 69 Steingraben marriage records, and the 200 Steingraben death records found in the Gerersdorf civil recording district records for the years 1895 through 1920. Name spellings (both surname and given names) have been standardized in these datasets to allow easier searches; you should check the original image for the exact form that appears in the records. [Standardized means only that a single form of a given name, or of what is believed to be the same surname, is used in the records, regardless of what was recorded.]

Steingraben was also known by the Hungarian names Bányácska and Bánya and the Croatian name Bojane. The name Bányácska is used for all entries in this collection (regardless of the variation entered in the original record).

The Gerersdorf parish and its subsequent civil recording district also included itself and the villages of Rehgraben (Hungarian: Özgödör, Croatian: Prašcevo) and Sulz (Hungarian: Sóskut; Croatian: Šeškut). The civil recording district also included Heugraben, Kroatisch Tschantschendorf, Krottendorf, Neustift bei Güssing and Tudersdorf for years 1907-1908. Records for these villages are not included (except when a Steingraben-related birth also involved a parent from one of these villages).

The column "FS Page" identifies the image page on which each record appears in the Gerersdorf FamilySearch collection, where
Catholic births        = familysearch.org/search/film/004674857,
Catholic marriages = familysearch.org/search/film/004674857 and
Catholic deaths      = familysearch.org/search/film/004674857.

Civil birth and death records were both split between two films, thus a film identifier column identifies the films in those transcriptions, Thus:
Civil birth 1     = familysearch.org/search/film/005036236 (1895-1903), and
Civil birth 2     = familysearch.org/search/film/005036237 (1904-1920).
Civil marriage = familysearch.org/search/film/005036238 (1895-1920).
Civil death 1   = familysearch.org/search/film/007161308 (1895-1906), and
Civil death 2   = familysearch.org/search/film/007161310 (1907-1020).