Records of the Registry Office of Cegléd, 1895-1944

Records of the Registry Office of Cegléd, 1895-1944

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Country:: Hungary

Holding institution:: National Archives of Hungary, Pest County Archives

Holding institution (official language):: Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Pest Megyei Levéltára

Postal address:: Pf. 141., H-1450 Budapest, Hungary

Phone number:: +36 1 455 9050

Web address:: http://mnl.gov.hu/pml/

Email:: pml@mnl.gov.hu

Country:: Hungary

Holding institution:: National Archives of Hungary, Pest County Archives

Holding institution (official language):: Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Pest Megyei Levéltára

Postal address:: Pf. 141., H-1450 Budapest, Hungary

Phone number:: +36 1 455 9050

Web address:: http://mnl.gov.hu/pml/

Email:: pml@mnl.gov.hu

Reference number:: V.85

Title:: Records of the Registry Office of Cegléd, 1895-1944

Title (official language):: Cegléd Magyar Királyi Anyakönyvi Hivatal iratai, 1895-1944

Creator/accumulator:: Registry Office of Cegléd

Date(s):: 1895/1944

Language:: Hungarian

Extent:: 9 boxes, 0.9 linear metres

Type of material:: Textual material

Physical condition:: good

Scope and content:: The collection holds fragmented records of the Registry Office of Cegléd, a municipal administrative body responsible for the state administration of births, marriages and deaths as stipulated by Act XXIII of 1895. The collection includes records of personal data for the registries, including certificates of births, marriages and deaths, lists on and decisions about modification of registration data (utólagos bejegyzések). Primary reasons for modification included magyarisation of names and conversion, both are important sociological indicators of Jewish communities. There is a separate part of the collection holding the certificates of racial origin stipulated by Act IV of 1939 (also known as the Second Jewish Law).

Archival history:: The records of the Registry Office of Cegléd were taken over by the Cegléd City Council after 1945. The City Council handed over the material to the Pest County Archives in 1978. The material was sorted and the present fonds was created in 1985. The material is of fragmented nature.

Administrative/biographical history:: The predecessor of the Registry Office of Cegléd, the Cegléd Registry District was created in 1895, in order to control and manage the state registration of births, marriages and deaths as stipulated by Act XXIII of 1895.

Access points: locations:: Cegléd

Subject terms:: Antisemitism; Antisemitism--Antisemitic legislation; Assimilation, acculturation; Vital records; Vital records--Birth records; Vital records--Death records; Vital records--Marriage records

System of arrangement:: The records were initially arranged by file numbers, re-started each year. However, later on certain thematic series were created, for example records pertaining to births or deaths.

Finding aids:: Ernő Lakatos, ed: A Magyar Állami Levéltárak fondjegyzéke, Vol. III. A Területi Levéltárak fondjegyzékei Part 13. A Pest Megyei Levéltár fondjainak jegyzéke. Budapest: Magyar Országos Levéltár, 1975.

Yerusha Network member:: Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives

Author of the description:: László Csősz; Hungarian National Archives; 06-12-2015 (In cooperation with the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure)

Reference number:: V.85

Title:: Records of the Registry Office of Cegléd, 1895-1944

Title (official language):: Cegléd Magyar Királyi Anyakönyvi Hivatal iratai, 1895-1944

Creator/accumulator:: Registry Office of Cegléd

Date(s):: 1895/1944

Language:: Hungarian

Extent:: 9 boxes, 0.9 linear metres

Type of material:: Textual material

Physical condition:: good

Scope and content:: The collection holds fragmented records of the Registry Office of Cegléd, a municipal administrative body responsible for the state administration of births, marriages and deaths as stipulated by Act XXIII of 1895. The collection includes records of personal data for the registries, including certificates of births, marriages and deaths, lists on and decisions about modification of registration data (utólagos bejegyzések). Primary reasons for modification included magyarisation of names and conversion, both are important sociological indicators of Jewish communities. There is a separate part of the collection holding the certificates of racial origin stipulated by Act IV of 1939 (also known as the Second Jewish Law).

Archival history:: The records of the Registry Office of Cegléd were taken over by the Cegléd City Council after 1945. The City Council handed over the material to the Pest County Archives in 1978. The material was sorted and the present fonds was created in 1985. The material is of fragmented nature.

Administrative/biographical history:: The predecessor of the Registry Office of Cegléd, the Cegléd Registry District was created in 1895, in order to control and manage the state registration of births, marriages and deaths as stipulated by Act XXIII of 1895.

Access points: locations:: Cegléd

Subject terms:: Antisemitism; Antisemitism--Antisemitic legislation; Assimilation, acculturation; Vital records; Vital records--Birth records; Vital records--Death records; Vital records--Marriage records

System of arrangement:: The records were initially arranged by file numbers, re-started each year. However, later on certain thematic series were created, for example records pertaining to births or deaths.

Finding aids:: Ernő Lakatos, ed: A Magyar Állami Levéltárak fondjegyzéke, Vol. III. A Területi Levéltárak fondjegyzékei Part 13. A Pest Megyei Levéltár fondjainak jegyzéke. Budapest: Magyar Országos Levéltár, 1975.

Yerusha Network member:: Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives

Author of the description:: László Csősz; Hungarian National Archives; 06-12-2015 (In cooperation with the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure)

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