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

Pest Megyei Levéltár (Pest County Archives)

section at Nagykőrös, with a capacity to receive 2500 running metres. The increasing tasks (among them the control of the registry, record management and selection of nearly 1200 organs) and the founding of new archival workshops (bookbinding and photo laboratory) made the increase of personnel necessary. From the 1 Janury 1976 the archival staff totals 33, among them 11 scientific, 14 other specialized personnel, 8 economic, technical and auxiliary collaborators. In the Budapest centre there are 3 archival sections and the finance office, in the Nagykőrös department one archival section. Section 1 is in charge of the administration and the publications, sections 2 and 3 divide the usual archival tasks among them. The Nagykőrös department of Pest County Archives cares for the preservation of its own material and makes it accessible to research. The archivists of all the four sections take part in the work on the territory. The finance department of Pest County Archives is responsible for the tasks of economy and guardianship, the bookbinding workshop, the photo laboratory and the car of the archives. The archival material of Pest County Archives has been strongly decimated first by the mentioned ravages of (Turkish) wars, later by unworkmanlike selections. The larger part of the old county archives has been annihilated in 1683, during the siege of Fulek castle. The records of the nineteenth century conscriptions and censuses, those of the county chiefs of Pest-Pilis county and of the subprefect between 1876 and 1902, though historically valuable, have been destroyed by amateurish selections. Almost the entire material of the feudal village archives and the large majority of the same in the capitalist period, most of the source material of the Pest Region Tribunal and of the district courts, all the records of the attorneys and public notaries have perished. As to the economic organs of the capitalistic period and the notable families of the county, their papers were destroyed before coming into archival custody. The extant material of cca 12 000 running metres has been classified into series' of archival groups according to the national structural system. The archives of Pest-Pilis-Solt county (1229-1876) totals cca 1100 running metres. It is arranged at medium level, provided with registers and lists, well accessible to research, stored in boxes. The oldest record of the repository is a charter of Andreas II from 1229.