Dr. Péter Balázs: Guide to the archives of Hungary (Budapest, 1976)

Nógrád Megyei Levéltár (Nógrád County Archives)

series of journals is especially valuable), of the Nógrád county court (16381848), of the county tax-collector (1696-1848, with the significant national and county conscriptions), of both the supreme county organs of Austrian absolutism after 1848, the Imperial-Royal Nógrád County Authority and the Imperial-Royal Balassagyarmat County Court (both from 1850 to 1860), of the municipal commission of Nógrád county (1872-1949, in which the assembly journals are especially valuable), and those of the first official of the county, the sub-prefect (1872-1949). Alas, the damages mentioned at the beginning, the removal in 1945 and several times after, the lack of a responsible leader of the Archives from 1945 to 1950 and the large-scale paper collection of these years all over the country resulted in a considerable loss, entailing the annihilation of entire archival groups and subgroups. So the records of the Nógrád Lord Lieutenant between 1872 and 1944, the journals of the municipal commission of the county between 1939 and 1944, the material of the Nógrád sub-prefect between 1914-1940 and of the administrative commission of Nógrád county between 1872 and 1944 are missing. Among the urban records the former county seat, Balassagyarmat borough (at present a city with the status of a district) preserved the series of its journals from the end of the eighteenth century completely. However, the relative records are but fragmentary, mainly the archival groups of the city chamberlain and of the tax-collector are worth mentioning. The journals of Salgótarján city (up to 1922 a village) are preserved between 1873 and 1921, also between 1945-1950, the material between 1922 and 1944 has been annihilated by war events, but here we have the burgomaster's records from 1922 to 1949. From the earlier years nothing is left but a village notice-book from 1840 to 1850 and a land register from 1851. The journals of the representative bodies of the villages of the county are very defective, they are preserved mainly from the twentieth century only. Their records are also fragmentary, only those of an important community, Pásztó reach back to the eighteenth century. Among the records of judicial organs those of the Balassagyarmat prison are significant, mainly the rolls between 1907 and 1944; in the relation of Nógrád county the material of the Balassagyarmat Tribunal between 1934 and 1944 is significant. Pre-1945 records are missing in all the District Courts of the county. Of the papers of institutes the elementary school rolls from the turn of