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Arhivele Naționale ale României
The Romanian national archives, county by county. Holds the Bukovinan and Transylvanian registers for the years those provinces were Romanian, which is not the same span as the years they existed.
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Last checked 2026-09-17. Tell us if this has changed.
The ground it holds
Record regions whose registers are filed here, and for which years.
- 1774–1918 Austria — Duchy of Bukovina
- 1918–1940 Romania
- 1941–1944 Romania — restored
- 1991–2026 Ukraine in the north; Romania in the south — THE TRAP. The line drawn in 1940 still runs through Bukovina. Northern records are at Chernivtsi in Ukraine, southern at Suceava in Romania, and a family that never moved can have its baptism in one country and its marriage in the other.
- 1699–1867 Habsburg — Grand Principality of Transylvania
- 1918–2026 Romania — THE TRAP. Pre-1918 records are HUNGARIAN and largely at Budapest; post-1918 are ROMANIAN and at the county archives. A family in one village, unmoved, is filed in two countries and two languages either side of 1918 — and the village has a Hungarian name, a Romanian name and often a German one.
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