Transcript Register books in Croatia

Register books in Croatia
Vlatka Lemić, Croatian State Archives
Budapest, 2009.
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History
• the oldest preserved register books came from
Dalmatia region (Omiš 1488, Hvar 1516, 1544
Mandalina near Šibenik, Zadar 1560, Trogir
1569) – Council of Trident regulated this issue
• from the decrees of Maria Theresa and Joseph II
taking register books is public service, so there
were confessional (church) books and civil
books, and until 1945 register books were
maintained by religious communities
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Register books after 1945.
• after the II World War register books were taken
from the church and become state property
• the books older then 1945. was taken to the
state archives and state offices
• in the 1970’s the Croatian State Archives started
with microfilming of register books in all Croatian
territory
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Using and researching
• public archives referring to personal data
(register of births, marriages and deaths,
medical documentation, personal files, juridical,
tax, financial files etc.) become accessible 70
years after their date of origin, if separate
regulations do not determine otherwise, or,
respectively 100 years after the birth of the
person to whom the records refer
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Register books - preservation
• cca. 30.000 books are microfilmed and around
7.000 roles are made – they are available for
research in state archives
• from 2000 user copies is made in digital form –
around 70 % of books (20.000) is digitalized –
cca. 1.800.000 scans are stored in the CSA
storage facilities
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Register books at present
• in 1997. Croatian Government and Holly Seat
signed contract on cooperation by which as
stated in Art. 5. Republic of Croatia is obliged to
return church books, status animarum, annals
and other books which are during the
communism illegally taken form catholic church
and are held by state
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Register books at present
• because of this Central state office started the
program of scanning of all register books in state
offices – they are microfilmed in CSA and digital
copies at DVD-s are given to offices
• books from 1902 to 1948 are still in offices and
some in archives and should be returned to the
church
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Register books at present
• National database of register books of all types
and confessions is taken in CSA
• All archives kept documentation (lists) of register
books for the area of their mandate
• Reproduction of register books from other
countries is also kept in the CSA’s Collection of
copies of register books
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