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

Szolnok Megyei Levéltár (Szolnok County Archives)

the requirements of the time; those produced after 1850 have registers and indices led according to the rules of coeval record management. To unarranged, defective records taken over without contemporary finding aids the Archives elaborated adequate descriptions in course of their arrangement, according to its level. The archival groups of the repository are comprised in a list, mirroring the status of 31 December 1974, published in mimeographic form. The list of archival groups is in course of publication. The pre-1526 charters of the Archives (23 pieces) have been published by Béla PETTKÓ: Szabolcs vármegye levéltárának mohácsi vész előtti oklevelei (Charters Prior to the Mohács Disaster in Szabolcs County Archives) Nyíregyháza, 1901. — A source publication for local history is published by István BALOGH:A honfoglalástól Mohácsig. Válságos századok. (From the Conquest to Mohács. Centuries of Crisis). Nyíregyháza, 1970. There is a room in the Archives, ensuring research for six persons. A microfilm reader is at disposal. The research room may be used on previous notice, under the conditions specified in the rules of research, during the office hours. The reference library totals 3000 volumes, among them almanacs, statutes, official bulletins, source publications, bibliographies, encyclopaedias, archival publications, historical journals and local history monographs. A part of them is accessible in the free shelf system. Dr. István BALOGH director of archives in retirement SZOLNOK MEGYEI LEVÉLTÁR (SZOLNOK COUNTY ARCHIVES) 5001 SZOLNOK, Kossuth Lajos u. 1. (Pf. 51.) Tel. 12-372 Director: Dr. Tibor TÓTH We have data on the archives of the former Jászkun districts from the 1750s. It was then that the Queen Maria Theresa ordered the establishment of an archivum at their seat, Jászberény. The county Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok was founded in 1876 and simultaneous-