The National Archives of Hungary Baranya County Archives is the official archive for Baranya County in Hungary. See the listing for the National Archives of Hungary for additional collections.

Online Collections

Databases available online:

• Databases Online (registers, censuses, military registration registers) write up here: NAH DatabasesOnline 
• Criminal Procedures, Prison Registers
• Certification Committee Cases
• Civil Lawsuits
• Notarial Deeds
• Inheritance And Chancery Cases, Testaments
• Maps
• Architectural Designs
• Minutes Of Meetings
• Registers Of Names, Hr Files
• School Registers
• Socialist Period (Documents Of The Councils And The Communist Party)
• Photos And Postcards
• Thematic Document Collections
• Has online collections from Baranya County Archives. Még nem kereshető = Not yet available. More will be added, but those currently online include:
• Borsod megye közgyűlése – General Assembly of Borsod county

  The database contains the regressions of the minutes of the General Assembly of Borsod County and the digitized image of the minutes of the General Assembly with a circle between 1569 and 1581. Péter Tóth: General Assembly and Forensic Protocols of the County of Borsod I. 1569-1578, Borsodi Archives Letters 51, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Archives, Miskolc, 2008. Digitized version of the book Available at HUNGARICANA …”

• Katonaállítás – Soldier Registries – Registries for patrols (1756-1942). These records may contain year of birth, marital status, father’s name, mother’s name, residence, health, appearance, & education. “Personnel records for setting up and completing a permanent army. Under the summary name there are several types of document. We can distinguish recruiting, drawing, dismissal, review, posting registrations. There is a list of missing soldiers, there are also lists of documents and release requests between the documents. The language of the documents is Latin, German, Hungarian depending on the age, depending on the location.”
• Zemplén vármegye közgyűlése – “General Assembly of Zemplén County-The database contains the regressions of the minutes of the General Assembly of Zemplén County and the digitized image of the minutes of the General Assembly with a circle between 1558 and 1563. Péter Tóth: General Assembly Minutes of the Zemplén County I. 1558-1560, Miskolc, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Archives, 1990. The digitized version of the book is available on the HUNGARICANA Public Collection Portal…”
• Where to find online Hungary Birth, Marriage, and Death records for Baranya County? The archive has a pdf of microfilms of state registers of Baranya county. The digitized birth, marriage, and death records from these microfilms are in the online collection, Hungary Civil Registrations, 1895-1980. Also, check the Soldier registries listed above at the NAH DatabaseOnline for soldiers’ birth dates and names of parents.

How to start the research:

József Berkes: Information for family history research

Links to other online databases

Onsite Records

BaML Baranya County Archives (11th century – 2013)

• ARC. COUNTY LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITIES AND CITY LEGAL AUTHORITIES
  V. COUNTRY TOWNS, TOWNS WITH ORGANIZED COUNCIL, MUNICIPALITIES
  VI. TERRITORIAL BODIES OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
• VII. TERRITORIAL BODIES OF THE LEGAL SERVICE
• VIII. INSTITUTIONS, INSTITUTIONS
• IX. BODIES
• X. ASSOCIATIONS, (MASS) ORGANIZATIONS, PARTIES
• XI. ECONOMIC BODIES
• XII. CHURCH ORGANIZATIONS, INSTITUTIONS
• XIII. FAMILIES
• XIV. PERSONS
• XV. COLLECTIONS
• XVI. REVOLUTIONARY BODIES OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC AND THE REPUBLIC OF THE COUNCILXVII. COMMITTEES ESTABLISHED FOR PEOPLE’S AUTHORITIES AND SPECIAL TASKS
• XXIII. ADVICES
• XXIV. TERRITORIAL BODIES OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• XXV. TERRITORIAL BODIES OF THE LEGAL SERVICE
• XXIX. COMPANIES
• XXX. CO-OPERATIVES
• XXXIII. DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THE ARCHIVES BY SPECIAL MEASURES
• XXXV. DOCUMENTS OF HUNGARIAN WORKERS ‘PARTY, HUNGARIAN SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY
• XXXVI. COUNTY MUNICIPALITIES / MUNICIPALITIES OF THE CAPITAL AND ITS DISTRICTS