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

Fejér Megyei Levéltár (Fejér County Archives)

population of the city from 1688 may be followed in the popular conscriptions, from 1869 in the census records, the financial situation in those of the attorney general's office. In the city engineer's papers we get a glance into the income and expenditure of the city and on the problem of urbanization. The burgomaster's records show the social change after 1945. Tha village records are arranged alphabetically. The single villages are, however, defective; only a few have records from the feudal period, the majority begins with the early twentieth century. Even so they are valuable. Especially the journals of the local self-government mirror the autonomous activity and also the economic, social and cultural conditions of the village populations. The second series, the collection of cadastral title deeds illustrates land tenure and social conditions. The third series is made up of records of general management; not too easy to search but rich in data. The material of the boroughs has been annihilated with one exception: Mór borough has left its fragmentary records. They supply data to the history of the settlement from the issue of borough privilege (1758) up to the beginning of bourgeois administration. Of the records of the regional specialized organs those of the Székesfehérvár Inland Revenue Office, the State Public Works Board, the General Inspectorate of Schools (competent for several counties) and the Inspectorate of Schools are valuable. The records cover the first half of the twentieth century. We also get a detailed picture of the land reform executed in the last phase of capitalistic development. In the years after the liberation an important step of evolution has been the dissolution of the large estates. Its execution in the county is mirrored by the records of the Land Board. The events of the same period may be found in the fragmentary records of the Resettlement Government Commissariat and in those of the village organs for the Collecting of Surplus Produce and Livestock, some interior organs and those of public feeding. In the archival groups of regional jurisdiction we mention the papers of public notaries (1875-1943), among them four at Mór and three at Székesfehérvár. The records of the Székesfehérvár Tribunal are, however, lost completely, those of the District Courts before 1945 are equally defective. The only complete material in this group is derived from the Adony District Court between 1882 and 1932. Among the archival groups of institutes and institutions we find mainly registers of the confessional schools of the county. They are easy to search, and give information on the primary education in the county, the social