Metadata: Collection of Church Registers
Collection
- Country:
- Slovakia
- Holding institution:
- State Archive in Banská Bystrica
- Holding institution (official language):
- Štátny archív v Banskej Bystrici
- Postal address:
- Komenského 26, Banská Bystrica, 974 01
- Phone number:
- 00421 48 420 43 05
- Web address:
- http://www.minv.sk/?archivy
- Email:
- archiv.bb@minv.sk
- Reference number:
- 1377
- Title:
- Collection of Church Registers
- Title (official language):
- Zbierka cirkevných matrík
- Creator/accumulator:
- State Archive in Banská Bystrica
- Date(s):
- 1594/1952
- Language:
- Latin
- German
- Hungarian
- Czech
- Slovak
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 105.77 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- There are 41 volumes of Jewish registers from 1810-1952 in the collection of church registers of births, deaths and marriages. They come from Jewish religious communities that were located on the territory of the former Banská Bystrica Region (until 1960). The registers contain valuable information concerning genealogy, demography and social and economic history. The entries also include information on employment, circumcision and changes of surname. Some registers also contain contemporary lists of Jewish families living in the municipality.
- Archival history:
- The registers were taken over by the State Archives in Banská Bystrica, then the Regional Archives, in 1952 and 1976 from national committees. The Jewish registers were originally concentrated in the State Archives in Bratislava and from there they were moved, in 1979, to the State Archives in Banská Bystrica where they are now.
- Access points: locations:
- Banská Bystrica
- System of arrangement:
- Registers are arranged alphabetically by Roman Catholic parish. The entry includes, first, the Roman Catholic registers, second, the evangelical registers of Augsburg confession, and third, the Jewish registers, if there was a Jewish register circuit. The entry specifies the type of register (birth, marriage, and death), the time span and the number of pages.
- Access, restrictions:
- Available for research.
- Finding aids:
- Otruba, Š.: Zbierka cirkevných matrík 1594 – 1952, I. – IV. Inventár, Banská Bystrica, 1983.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP/HDC Survey 2016-18