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Sign		Series	Time interval	Accessibility
SzfvPL – I.1. –	A. No.5901; 5060 B. No.5071 C. No.5882	Archivum Vetus: Acta Ecclesiae Albaregalensis Protocollum Intimatorum Protocollum Functionum Episcopalium	1777-1827 1777-1816 1790-1889	subject to fee
SzfvPL – I.2. – No.117/A-AG		Census (Conscriptiones Status Animarum)	1745-1776	subject to fee
SzfvPL – I.2.		Registers	1939-1945	free
SzfvPL – I.2. – No.5908.		Directories	1896-1988	free
SzfvPL – I.6.A vol. 1-9.		Duplicates of registers (baptized, married, dead)	1816-1822 (partially until 1828)	subject to fee
SzfvPL – I.6.A vol. 10-259.		Duplicates of registers baptized married dead	1895-1934 1895-1955 1895-1955	subject to fee
SzfvPL – I.6.B vol. 1-5.		Duplicates of registers     confirmed,     consecrated	1779-1832 1777-1792	subject to fee
SzfvPL – III.1. – CD		The economic records of the Collegiate Chapter tithelist (church tax) Fejér County Simontornya Balaton-felvidék estate administration documents Sárkeresztúr	1728-1769 1729 1769-1773 1730-1774	subject to fee
SzfvPL – VI.B.I.1. – No.5068.		Székesfehérvár’s deanery protocollum	1737-1777	subject to fee
SzfvPL – VIII.B.1. – No.5903.		Order of Carmelites scapulare society	1689-1780	subject to fee
SzfvPL – VIII.B.2. – No.5904.		Fransiscan Order congregational documents documents pertaining to the secular order	1702-1781 1736-1782	subject to fee
SzfvPL – IX.7.A – C.1-27.		Catafalque crests’ collection	1804-1939	subject to fee
SzfvPL – IX.11.		Digital document collection of the Diocese’s history / original registers	1716-1993*	subject to fee

* See their detailed description at the bottom of the page.

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About the types of resources

Archivum Vetus (Ancient Archives)

The bishopric was founded in 1777, its early handling of documents meant copying the important ones into protocol. Several protocol series were initiated: books of Acta Ecclesiae Albaregalensis contained records
of the diocesan government; the Protocollum Intimatorum contained copies of decrees issued by the Hungarian Court Chamber. The last books of the latter (Extractus Intimatorum) are regarded as procuration description. From the age of Miklós Milassin a so – called Protocollum functionum episcopalium was documented about the bishop’s acts.

The third bishop, József Vurum’s reform of handling documents led to restarting the documentation from 1816, and from 1826 these series were recorded again until Bishop János Pauer’s death (1889).

Population Census

These documents had been created before the foundation of the bishopric of Székesfehérvár. On the order of the bishop of Veszprém the local parish priests recorded population census going from house to house. These documents served as preliminary work to the bishop’s summarising reports about the status of the diocese, sent to Rome, that’s why most of them provide snapshot about the population of parishes in 1745., 1757., 1769., 1771. The collection of documents was brought to Székesfehérvár by Ignác Séllyei Nagy, the first bishop of Székesfehérvár – earlier administrator at the episcopal court of Veszprém – in 1777, to make his diocese – building work easier.

This type of resource can be used for family tree – research mostly until 1771, after that it deteriorates into statistics. Therefore, we publish all census until 1771 in our holding, while between 1772-1776 those that contain only name data, too.

In the interest of easy handling, we publish the census grouped by the parish, and we enclose a chart about where and which years the census was recorded in. Names of the individual photo files contain the year of recording beside the original signs. (The signs 17XX and 17XY mark two different piles of census “recorded in uncertain times” in Veszprém.)

Indexes in institutional agreement, to facilitate a certain research we publish the indexes of the Diocesan Government between 1939-1945.

Duplicates of registers – baptized, married, deceased

Copies were made about baptism, marriage and death entries in registers at the end of each year on the order by Bishop József Vurum in
the diocese of Székesfehérvár from 1816. Based on legal authorization the castle counties’ authorities collected them from 1827. Duplicates created only after introducing civil registration (1st October 1895.) were handled again by the diocese.

The special feature of duplicates is that they do not contain possible later entries (e. g. legitimation, change in name) in the original register.

Entries can be found in the original stock yearly ordered, within that grouped by parishes. To facilitate research:

    • digital copies are listed in the folders of the individual parishes;

    • these folders contain the present names of the parishes, the earlier writings are marked in brackets and / or preserved
in file names;

    • the files after 1895 are split according to register types;

    • if needed, they are split in time.

The files:

    • almost complete between 1816-1822 (entries from Ercsi, 1817 are missing)

    • strongly partial between 1823-1828. It is rather by
chance which copy was recorded and preserved. We enclose the directory containing them.

    • After 1895 the collection can be regarded as almost
complete. (In case of Füle, Pilisszentiván, Pilisvörösvár, Ráckeresztúr, Tinnye the observed minimal hiatus has been made up with the help of the original registers, which we refer to with the part “orig.” in the file names.) There are missing years concerning the last months of 1895 or particular years of World War I in the registers of the marriages – but to our best knowledge there were not services of sacraments at these parishes at those times.

Duplicates of registers – Confirmation registers

Confirmation happened much fewer times on the turn of the 18th – 19th century than nowadays.

Almost every Pentecost confirmation was held in the cathedral. Bishop
Ignac Séllyei Nagy visited all his diocese in 1778, and during this visit he performed confirmations as well – whose data can be found in the minutes of the Canonica Visitatio, not in this series of books. Later he, then Miklós Milassin took only shorter visits of confirmation in the countryside. József Vurum travelled almost all around the diocese
in 1817-1818. Mátyás Pál Szutsits visited 32 parishes in 1829. Both of them combined the confirmation with the canonical inspection of the parishes (Canonica Visitatio). János Horváth – who stayed in Székesfehérvár for only a year because of continuance of his inaugural and his duties in the Parliament of Pozsony – visited 5 parishes in 1832.

The registers of confirmation contain the confirmed person’s name, chosen confirmation name, age, address, and the confirmation parent’s name. Rarely the parents’ names and place of origin appear among the data.

The end of the first book functions as book of ordainment: it contains the data of ordainment to priesthood between 1772-1792.

The record of confirmation in the first book cannot be regarded complete. The fifth book contains the draft of the list of the confirmed
in 1793, although here we can find two lists of two settlements, which were not listed in the first book for unknown reasons.

To facilitate research the copies originating in the five books:

    • are labelled in the folders of each parish;

    • these folders contain the present names of the parishes (we marked the previous spelling in brackets);

    • they are ordered in time as well.

From the economic records of the Collegiate Chapter

In the 18th century, the Collegiate Chapter of Székesfehérvár which has medieval origin, tried to regain its old rights and revenues.

We publish economic records created during estate administration from Sárkeresztúr, which are first-class local history sources.

The Collegiate Chapter could collect the church tax (decima, tithe) in the area of Fejér County for a significant time, and from the settlements of Simontornya, Akali, Dörgicse, Lovas and Kékkút for a shorter period.

The publication of the censuses of Fejér County follows the order of the
documents, which goes by district, within it by crop type – Upper District: Bodajk, Csákberény, Csákvár, Csór, [Fehérvár]Csurgó, Inota, Iszkaszentgyörgy, Magyaralmás, Moha, Mór, Pákozd, Pátka, [Sár]Keresztes,
Seregélyes, Sukoró, Velence, Zámoly. Lower District: Aba, Cece, Füle, Káloz, Lovasberény, Nadap, [Nádasd]Ladány, Polgárdi, [Puszta]Egres, [Sár]Kiskeszi, [Sár]Szentmihály, Seregélyes, Soponya, [Szabad]Battyán, Vajta.

(In 1728, the district classification of the villages was not yet consistent, in 1764, a common description was created.)

The winetax of Iszkaszentgyörgy, which was held separately, we inserted it in its logical place.

The former handover receipts are published separately.

From deanery documents

The volume administered by the deans of Fehérvár in the diocese of Veszprém – from 1737 József Drávecz, from 1755 Pál Horváth – is one of the most significant sources about the ecclesiastical status of the territory from the time previous the foundation of the bishopric of Székesfehérvár.

Documents of Orders

Three Orders settling in our town played significant roles in the religious life of the Baroque Székesfehérvár: the Jesuit, the Fransiscan
and the Carmelite communities. We publish namelists of their preserved documents, which help to light their social incorporation. The Carmelite
Scapulare Society, the Saint Seraph Congregation led by the Fransiscan Order, and the member registration of the Fransiscan third order can be found here. 

Catafalque crests

The catafalque crest paintings were parts of the deceased nobility and high priests’ representation. Their primary function was to represent the deceased at the requiem and burial; yet they could serve to preserve the deceased’ remembrance. These paintings were usually created in hurry after the death. Therefore, it is not usual to speak about artistric elaboration, and often the portrayal is not precise, either in smaller details or their colouring.

Our archives have preserved several royal crest paintings inserted in
these series (C.1., C.2., C.14.), which may have been painted as illustrating materials after December 1848, the excavation of King Béla III and his wife’s tomb. These pictures can most probably linked to Bishop János Pauer’s lecture about excavations.

The textual description of the crests can be read here.

Original registers

Our primary goal is to publish the registers of the parishes, which had been attached to our Diocese in 1993, but now the materials of some parishes considered to be core areas have also become available. The scope of publishable data is different because of the year limits of the
volumes, the historical document-destruction and the research limitations linked to subsequent entries.

Parish	Baptized	Married	Dead	Comment
Bakonykúti	1760-1895	1760-1963	1762-1908
Balatonbozsok	–	–	1955-1993
Balinka	1796-1806 1816-1821 1829-1898	1796-1806 1816-1821 1829-1898	1797-1807 1816-1821 1829-1993	1816-1830: Volumes partially replaced from duplicates
Bodajk	1734-1902	1733-1959	1734-1897
Bodajk-Fehérvárcsurgó filia	1766-1852	1766-1852	1766-1852	The datas between 1852-1921 are located int the registers of Bodajk.
Budajenő	1716-1830 1895-1913	1716-1779 1859-1873 1895-1943	1716-1779 1894-1933 1938-1965	In 1945 document-destruction was significant. In addition to the remaining registers, we only publish handwritten volumes based on contemporaneous copies, not the photocopies of county duplicates.
Budaörs	1738-1932	1738-1961	1738-1988
Csókakő	1788-1829 1837-1905	1788-1929	1788-1906
Dég	1764-1784 1789-1928	1776-1786 1789-1934	1778-1784 1789-1926
Enying	1770-1927	1770-1936	1770-1984
Füle	1749-1914	1749-1943	1749-1914*	* Noticeably incomplete between 1754-1771.
Isztimér	1753-1899	1753-1909	1753-1829 1853-1910	The missing datas of the death registers until 1848 can be found in the duplicates of the county.
Kecskéd	1744-1924	1751-1931	1749-1993
Környe	1746-1885	1746-1927	1814-1936
Lajoskomárom	1846-1892	1847-1929	1846-1993
Lepsény	1825-1914*	1826-1892* 1895-1943	1825-1912*	* Volumes partially replaced from duplicates. Missing years: 1827, 1846, 1854, 1860-1861, 1865-1866, 1871, 1884. Death registers 1913-1944 – missing.
Magyaralmás	1760-1849 1853-1904	1760-1849 1853-1944	1760-1849 1853-1909	1832-1849: Volumes replaced from duplicates.
Mezőkomárom	1724-1741 1824-1918	1724-1740 1839-1852 1887-1935	1724-1740 1839-1852 1882-1977	Significant document-destruction.
Mezőszilas	–	1935-1943	1935-1978	Between 1935-1943 datas were replaced from duplicates.
Oroszlány	–	–	1952-1969
Szabadhídvég	–	–	1947-1966
Tatabánya – Alsó és Felsőgalla	1742-1789	1742-1789	1750-1789
Tatabánya-Alsógalla	1790-1900	1801-1903	1790-1800 1807-1941
Tatabánya-Bánhida	1719-1731 1736-1760 1770-1930	1732-1958	1716-1719 1736-1993
Tatabánya-Felsőgalla	1742-1927	1790-1948	1790-1983	Death registers between 1933-1965 were replaced from duplicates located in the diocesan archive of Győr.
Tatabánya-Óváros	1903-1931	1903-1934	1903-1966
Tatabánya-VI.telep	–	–	1944-1992
Tatabánya-VII.telep	–	1944-1963	1944-1963
Várgesztes	1851-1908	–	1850-1950
Vértessomló	1787-1913	1788-1919	1787-1990
Vértesszőlős filia	–	1852-1867	–	Separate part in the registers of Bánhida.
Vértesszőlős	1866-1933	1866-1933	1866-1973

The registers of Bokod and Dad is not yet available among the parishes added to our diocese in 1993.