Metadata: Collection of Parochial Registers of Civil Records, Alba county
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- National Archives, Alba County Branch
- Holding institution (official language):
- Direcţia Judeţeană Alba a Arhivelor Naţionale
- Postal address:
- Str. Mihai Viteazu nr. 29; cod 510010; Alba Iulia; jud. Alba
- Phone number:
- +40 0258 810 996
- Email:
- alba@arhivelenationale.ro
- Reference number:
- Colecția Registre de stare civilă de la parohi, jud. Alba; fond nr. 17; inv. 328
- Title:
- Collection of Parochial Registers of Civil Records, Alba county
- Title (official language):
- Colecția Registre de stare civilă de la parohi, jud. Alba
- Creator/accumulator:
- National Archives, Alba County Branch
- Date(s):
- 1710/1961
- Language:
- Latin
- German
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 2,710 items
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- This collection comprises civil registers recording births, marriages, and deaths. In addition to birth, marriage, and death records, some of the Christian registers record conversions, baptisms, confirmations, pastor or priest names, and other notes on the development of the community. The Romanian preface to a similar collection in the Mureș county archives notes that in 1784 the Jewish communities were made to record their civil records under the supervision of the Catholic priests. It is unclear whether this may indicate that 18th century Jewish records could be found within Catholic record books. In any case, there are no extant Jewish registers dating prior to the 1820s in the district of Alba in this collection, though births taking place as early as the early 1800s were recorded after the fact in some registers.
- Archival history:
- These registers were maintained by the respective Jewish community and/or local municipality and collected in the 1950s by the National Archives.
- Access points: locations:
- Aiud
- Alba Iulia
- Blaj
- Sebeş
- Teiuș
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is organised by locality and then religion.
- Finding aids:
- All Jewish registers held at the Alba archives are described in the detail in the JBAT catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://jbat.lbi.org/items/show/2299
- Yerusha Network member:
- Leo Baeck Institute