Metadata: Collection of nationality registers, Satu Mare county
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Satu Mare County
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale Române, Direcţia judeţeană Satu Mare
- Postal address:
- Satu Mare, Str. 1 Decembrie 1918 no. 13, 44001, county Satu Mare, Romania
- Phone number:
- 0040-261-711102
- Reference number:
- Fond 20
- Title:
- Collection of nationality registers, Satu Mare county
- Title (official language):
- Colecţia registre de cetăţenie a judeţului Satu Mare
- Creator/accumulator:
- Police
- Date(s):
- 1924/1946
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 203 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The collection includes the nationality registers for the years 1924, 1938, 1945 and 1946 for families from localities in Satu Mare county. Each register includes the families with the recognised nationality right. The information for each family comprises the name of the head of the family, his birth year and birthplace, his profession and residence, the names of the family members and their birth years. The Jewish families are present in larger number in the registers for Satu Mare, Carei, Tăşnad, Ardud, Bicsad, Halmeu, Livada and Negreşti-Oaş.
- Archival history:
- The registers were preserved by the Popular Militia of Satu Mare county. It was transferred to the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Satu Mare County, between 1971 and 2000.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The registers of nationality were introduced by the Mârzescu Law of 1924 which established the rules concerning the granting and loss of nationality rights in Romania. The registers were to be completed with the data of the families with nationality rights by the mayor of every locality and were preserved by the local police. In 1938, the first antisemitic government of the interwar Romania - the Goga-Cuza government - adopted the law concerning the revision of the nationality rights. As a result approximately one-third of the Jewish population from Transylvania lost their Romanian nationality. The registers were revised again in 1945-1946 and reflect the demographical situation of the Jewish population after the Holocaust.
- Subject terms:
- Citizenship
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is organised by alphabetical order of the localities.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 13 of the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Satu Mare County.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Attila Gidó (Institutul pentru Studierea Problemelor Minorităţilor Naţionale, Cluj-Napoca), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor, Cluj-Napoca), 2017
