Metadata: Collection of confessional vital records registers from Satu Mare county
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale Române. Direcţia Judeţeană Satu Mare
- Postal address:
- Satu Mare, Str. 1 Decembrie 1918, 13, Satu Mare, 440010, jud. Satu Mare
- Phone number:
- 0261-711102
- Reference number:
- Fond 22
- Title:
- Collection of confessional vital records registers from Satu Mare county
- Title (official language):
- Colecţia Registrelor Parohiale de Stare Civilă din Judeţul Satu Mare
- Creator/accumulator:
- Priests; rabbis of Satu Mare county
- Date(s):
- 1704/1907
- Language:
- German
- Hungarian
- Latin
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 1,765 registers
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds comprises the registers of births, marriages and deaths of all religious denominations in the localities of Satu Mare county, namely the Roman-Catholic, Greek Catholic, Calvinist and Israelite (Jewish) communities. The rabbinical registers start after 1860 and record vital events until 1895, when state registering of vital events was introduced for all inhabitants of every town and village of the county.
The rabbinical birth registers include the name of the newborn, the date of birth, the name, birthplace, profession and residence of the parents, the name of the midwife, the date of circumcision for boys and name-giving for the girls, the name of the circumciser or name-giver and the name of the godfather. The rabbinical marriage registers record the date of the marriage, the names, age, profession and residence of the bride and bridegroom, the names, profession and residence of their parents, the place of the marriage, the name of the rabbi and the names of the witnesses. The rabbinical death registers include the name of the deceased, his age, profession, birthplace and residence, the name of parents (for children) or of the husband or wife (if applicable), the date and place of the death, the cause of death, the date and place of the burial and the name of the rabbi.
- Archival history:
- The registers of vital records were originally held by the registry offices of town halls and mayor’s offices of the villages. They begun to be transferred to the state archives in 1952. They are now held at the Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The registering of the vital events started in Transylvania for Roman-Catholics and Calvinists at the end of the 17th century. For the Jewish communities such registers were introduced at the end of the 18th century by emperor Joseph II, but the death of the emperor in 1790 caused this disposition to be forgotten, so that the rabbinical registers did not actually start until after 1850, when the Neo-Absolutist regime installed after the defeat of the revolution of 1848-1849 implemented Joseph II’s original disposition. This system of registration of the births, marriages and deaths lasted until 1895 when, in accordance with Law XXXIII, state registration was introduced for all inhabitants of every town and village, to be carried out by registrars in the the framework of town halls and mayors’ offices.
- Access points: locations:
- Romania
- Satu Mare county
- Transylvania
- Subject terms:
- Vital records
- System of arrangement:
- The registers are arranged by religious denomination and within these by locality. Within localities the registers are in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories No. 11 and 14, held by the Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Attila Gidó (researcher, Institute for Study of National Minorities, Cluj-Napoca), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor), 2017