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

Tolna Megyei Levéltár (Tolna County Archives)

war destroyed the results of one and a half centuries work in arrangement almost totally. In 1948 the collection of the records of the earlier landowning families in the county was begun with high intensity. As a result of three year's work the material was increased by 86 running metres from 12 families. A part of the records derives from the thirteenth to fourteenth centuries. This work of collection enriched the Archives with 195 medieval charters, the oldest of which dates from 1238. The archival material was increased considerably at two other occasions after the liberation: first in 1951 to 1954 by gathering the journals of the bodies of representatives and the magistratures of the villages, second at the end ">f the 1950s by taking over the records of the agricultural cooperatives. The archival material of Tolna County Archives totals nearly 4,700 running metres, of which the feudal period is represented by 392, the capitalistic one by 2,597, the Hungarian Councils' Republic and the socialist period by 1,703 running metres. The majority of our archival groups is made up by the records of (county, district, village) administration and of jurisdiction, the others are of a minor quantity. We hardly have material on industrial history. Among the records of the feudal period separate care is bestowed on the 195 charters prior to the Mohács disaster (1526), derived from the family archives. All are in Latin, none of them are relating to Tolna county. The feudal period has two other interesting types of records. One of them is the journals of county nobilitary assemblies from 1696 to 1848 and the adjoining records. The language of the journals in Latin between 1696 and 1787, German from 1787 to 1789, Latin again from 1790 to 1806, Hungarian from 1807. The journal of the year 1697 is missing; there are empty pages for it in the volume, but the copying was omitted. The volume from 1704 to 1713 is lacking as well. The second interesting type is represented by the conscriptions of the feudal period, depicting the population, the economy, the cultural, hygienic and military conditions together with the taxation for posterity. These records of about 10 running metres supply data mainly on the villages, but also summaries for the districts and the county are frequent. From the year 1829 we have also the private conscription of Antal Egyed, which put 22 questions to each village and received answers from