Buzási János: A Magyar Országos Levéltár fondjainak és állagainak jegyzéke I. kötet I-III. osztály (Budapest, 1996)

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scientific research work, are referred to in several publications, thus any changes should be well considered. The view that the closed reference systems endeavouring for perfection are the less perfectones is also not without any reason. After all, with the the use of modern technology the only important thing is that two different registered units should not have the same identification code. Building up a central computerized system of fonds and sub-fonds coming from three different places is going on now. Data base is able to follow the daily changes even with keeping the two different reference code systems. Finally, the old reference codes were kept in the unified archives. The HWP and HSWP records were listed in section M having been empty since the foundation of the New Hungarian Central Archives. In order to keep the old fonds and sub-fonds figures we have given a distinctive letter mark to the groups of fonds which cannot be confused with the section mark (KS: central agencies, BP: agencies in Budapest, PM: agencies in County Pest). This solution renders unnecessary cross-references creating so many problems, that is it works without concordance, all fonds and sub-fonds can be detected on the old, well-known refernce codes. For safety of the registered records we will keep an maintain i the future papers and registration sheets of the data base. After completing the unification the task of presenting to the users the holdings themselves after frodund changes of the past years by publishing summary of records of the National Archives of Hungary became timely. In general a published summary of records has double aim: registering the material and giving information. This will be the case in the foreseeable future. Although there are highly developed, mobile and data safe technical devices for registering, first of all the computer, the function of registering of the summary of records has not diminished at all, moreover it has strengthened in certain aspects. The point is that the traditional, manual registers (cards), and keeps all the changes from the beginning, while deleting unusual data from the computer is quite easy, athough they could perhaps be important later. Thus perhaps there is a greater than ever need for registering from time to time the state of holdings by publishing summary of records. Presently, however, after many changes of the archives, this publication of summary of records was mainly motivated by the intention to inform scholars and other users as soon as possible. It is of primary interest of the institution itself to give, after the changes, as comprehensive and clear as possible picturing to about its holdings, trying to avoid by this misbelief or suspicions. Naturally there are still a lot of tasks of arrangement and systematization: one or the other are clearly crying out of the summary of records. These tasks will come next. For the time being we considered more urgent to publish the summary of records. The present summary of records shows the state of the holdings kept in the National Archives of Hungary on December 31, 1994. The following table shows the number of fonds in different sections, and the extent (in record metres or pieces): Section A Archives of the Hungarian Chancellery 35 fonds 1658.45 m Section B Archives of the Transylvanian Chancellery 19 fonds 484.64 m Section C Archives of the Council of the Lientenency 83 fonds 2836.08 m Section D Archives of the Age of Absolutism 119 fonds 2270.93 Section E Hungarian Treasury Archives 267 fonds 2896.49 m Section F Transylvanian Central Governmental Archives 126 fonds 3462.11 m Fection G Archives of Freedom Fights of Thököly and Rákóczi 18 fonds 18.79 m Section H Ministerial Archives of 1848—1849 55 fonds 171.65 m Section I Records given out of Vienna Archives 26 fonds 54.64 m Section K Central Governmental Archives 1867—1944 327 fonds 8296.27 m