Metadata: Collection of vital records registers of parishes from Caraş-Severin county
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Caraş-Severin County
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale Române, Direcţia judeţeană Caraş-Severin
- Postal address:
- Şesul Nou Str. No. 12, Caransebeş 325400, Caraş-Severin county, Romania
- Phone number:
- 0040-255-512981
- Reference number:
- Fond 109
- Title:
- Collection of vital records registers of parishes from Caraş-Severin county
- Title (official language):
- Colecţia registrelor parohiale de stare civilă din judeţul Caraş-Severin
- Creator/accumulator:
- Parishes and religious communities of Caraş-Severin county
- Date(s):
- 1725/1984
- Language:
- German
- Hungarian
- Latin
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 2,408 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains registers of births, marriages and deaths of the Romanian and Serbian Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Calvinist, Lutheran and Jewish parishes and communities in the area of present-day Caraş-Severin county in Romania and several Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic parishes in Serbia. Jewish registers of vital records kept by local rabbis are preserved for births, marriages and deaths of the Jewish populations of Bocşa (1810–85): files 2/1857 and 1/1810; Caransebeş (1794–1895): files 1/1894, 2/1894 and 3/1885; and Oraviţa (1852–95): files 1/1852, 2/1856, 5/1856, 6/1856, 4/1857 and 3/1895, including registration in both German and Hungarian. The records also refer to Jews from neighbouring villages.
- Archival history:
- The registers were transferred from the religious communities to the Timişoara branch of the State Archives from 1954 and from 1974 to the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Caraş-Severin County, where they were inventoried.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Austrian government introduced birth, marriage and death registers for Roman Catholic parishes in the 16th century and for other Christian denominations in the 18th century. Registration for Greek Orthodox parishes began in 1791, while for Jewish communities the rabbinical registering of births, marriages and deaths was introduced in Caransebeş and Bocşa in the reign of Emperor Joseph II (1780–90), but most Jewish registers begin after 1850. Beginning in 1895, registration by religious denominations was duplicated by state registration for all inhabitants of a village, town or city.
- Access points: locations:
- Bocşa
- Caransebeş
- Caraş-Severin
- Oraviţa
- Subject terms:
- Vital records
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged according to religious denomination and within those according to locality. For each locality the registers of each religious denomination are in chronological order.
- Access, restrictions:
- Only registers older than 100 years are available to researchers.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 1576 of the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Caraş-Severin 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), 2016
