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

Somogy Megyei Levéltár (Somogy County Archives)

demography. The "regulatio urbarialis" (1767) is, a practically complete collection, containing the records of the regulation of villein socage under Maria Theresa. In this precious archival group we find beside the "urbarial" tables the village assessments made in the course of preparation and, in case of more villages than one, the assessments of "extrasessional" holdings. To the records arranged at piece level subject indexes are added, according to villages. The records of the Kaposvár Urbarial Court (1850-1860) have an outstanding source value, being the basic source of the first two capitalistic decades as to the most important means of production, the land. The confidential and general records of the Lord Lieutenant of Somogy county (1860-1950) and those of the county nobilitary assembly, or municipality of Somogy county (1658-1950) are relatively complete. The records of the Mernye estate of the Custodiate of the Pious Fathers (1769-1950), of the District Court (civil and criminal processes, 1872-1944), of the Somogy County Districtual Production Commissariat (1919), the correspondence of Sándor Latinca, commissioner of the governing council (1919) and the records of the National Commission of Somogy County (1945-1949) also deserve mention. The records total 4600 current metres. The archival material is arranged. Descriptions, published and manuscript finding aids on the Archives: József KANYAR: Somogy megye levéltára (The Archives of Somogy County), Kaposvár 1962. — A Kaposvári Állami Levéltár fondjainak jegyzéke (List of Archival Groups of the Kaposvár State Archives). Budapest 1963. Publications of the Archives: 1. Somogy megye múltjából (From the Past of Somogy County). Levéltári Évkönyv (Archival Annual) vols 1-6. Ed. József KANYAR. 1970-1975. 2. József KANYAR: Harminc nemzedék vallomása Somogyról (The Confessions of Thirty Generations on Somogy). Történelmi olvasókönyv (A Historical Reader). Kaposvár, 1967. 3. József KANYAR: Somogy a felszabadulás hónapjaiban (Somogy County in the Months of Liberation) 1944-1945. (Kaposvár, 1970.) The archival material is used in the research room. Beside historical reference books, encyclopaedias, dictionaries and statistics it is equipped with a 1000 volume book collection on local history and a local press archives. Dr. József KANYAR