HR-HDA-883 — Zbirka matičnih knjiga (Hrvatski državni arhiv)

The Croatian State Archives' own collection of ORIGINAL parish registers — distinct from HR-HDA-1448, which is microfilm of registers held elsewhere, and from the register search at provider hda-mk-search, which indexes 1448 and not this. Covers parishes of the Zagreb archdiocese, the Đakovo-Srijem and SENJ-MODRUŠ dioceses, Orthodox parishes of the Gornji Karlovac eparchy, and others. A published inventory lists it parish by parish with date ranges: Angelika Milić, «Zbirka matičnih knjiga u Hrvatskom državnom arhivu», Arhivski vjesnik 60 (2017), 251-311, https://hrcak.srce.hr/194831. A machine-readable extract of those holdings exists — 2,503 volumes across 357 parishes, 1585-1947, as parish/confession/type/date-range — held by the Defranceschi family archive and available on request. IT IS DELIBERATELY NOT COMMITTED HERE: this atlas's own licence gate is right that a dataset dropped into data/ becomes something the atlas must publish and disclose on /data/, and whether to take on a source with no stated publisher licence is the atlas's decision, not a contributing archive's. THE DATE CUT IS THE IMPORTANT THING AND IT IS NOT ARBITRARY: a decision of the NRH Ministry of the Interior of 13 May 1949 required every register with entries UP TO 1860 to be handed to the competent archive, while those from 1860 onward stayed with the state registry offices that needed them in daily work. So a parish that appears here ending in 1858 has not stopped keeping records — anything after 1860 is simply somewhere else, normally the matični ured or the parish. That single rule explains a great many apparent gaps across Croatia.