HDA — Pretraga matičnih knjiga (HR-HDA-1448)

The Croatian State Archives' own searchable index of HR-HDA-1448, «Zbirka dopunskih mikrofilmova matičnih knjiga i popisa obitelji» — registers of ALL confessions across Croatia, plus Bosnian Catholics, from the mid-16th to the first half of the 20th century, microfilmed from originals held in state archives, church archives, parish offices, registry offices and monasteries. This answers «is this parish filmed at all» in one query, which arhinet's own row cannot: three drop-downs (parish/regiment, confession, type), then Pretraži. A row gives the period, PRIJEPIS when it is a transcript rather than the original, the holding institution, the signatura svitka (e.g. ZM-34C/681), the topografska oznaka (e.g. M-1278) and Digitalni oblik Da/Ne. Types: R births, V marriages, U deaths, S status animarum, Z confirmations, O anniversarii, I index. To order: info@arhiv.hr with place, type, period, signatura and topografska oznaka; consulted in the HDA reading room in Zagreb, max ten units a day. TWO TRAPS. First, the place box is a Telerik combo on an ASP.NET page: setting it FROM SCRIPT changes only what it displays and never commits to the server, so the search runs on an empty place and returns «Nema zapisa za pregled» — identical to a real nil. On 2026-09-29 that manufactured nine false negatives in one sitting, caught only by re-running a known-positive place as a control and watching it come back empty too. Always run that control. Second, the site itself warns that one settlement may be listed under several name forms — CRIKVENICA has four — so check every variant before calling a place absent.