Record Atlas
7 FamilySearch collections · 5 archives · 24 places · 1624–1990

Hungary

Where the records of Hungary are, who holds them, and what it costs to look. 44,634,725 indexed records reachable through FamilySearch alone.

Where to start in Hungary

3 of the 4 checked sources here can be opened tonight. 2are free images with no account. 1 needs a free account. 1is a catalogue card or paper in a building — a letter, not a click. On top of that, 9 worldwide services reach Hungary without a subscription.

1 more institution is listed here and has never been checked — nobody has opened it, written to it, or found out what it holds. They are on the map as grey because that is what they are, and the honest reading of this page is 3 known-open, 1 unknown.

Write to Hungaricana, Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár (Hungarian National Archives) for what is not online. FamilySearch has 7 collections covering it, running 1624–1990, 44,634,725 indexed records. 3 pieces of this ground are mapped for jurisdiction, so the atlas can say whose archive held it in a given year.

24 places placed, 12 volumes walked. Open Hungary on the map, or tell us what is missing.

Whose archive this ground was

Record regions mapped in Hungary — which empire held the ground, and therefore which archive holds its paper.

The archives

  • ANNO — Austrian Newspapers Online free Vienna, Austria

    The Austrian National Library's digitised newspaper run. Full-text searchable, and it covers the whole empire — which is why it finds Croatian and Istrian names.

  • Arcanum Digitheca (ADT) unsurveyed

    Hungary's digitised press, gazettes and reference works, full-text searchable. Worked by the Blažević archive for the Smojvers of Karlobag in the Hungarian state record, and again searching place names rather than surnames. Not yet surveyed for what an ordinary visitor can reach.

  • GenTeam.at Vienna, Austria

    Volunteer indexes to the Habsburg lands — Vienna's parish registers, Jewish records, school and guild lists. Free with an account, and it reaches ground the church portals do not.

  • Hungaricana free Budapest, Hungary

    The Hungarian cultural heritage portal — maps, censuses, urbaria and archival finding aids for the whole Kingdom of Hungary, not today's borders.

  • Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár (Hungarian National Archives) catalogue Budapest, Hungary

    The archives of the Kingdom of Hungary, which until 1920 meant Slovakia, Transylvania, the Banat and Croatia as well. Civil registration duplicates from 1895 are here even where the ground is now in another country.

And 12 worldwide providers reach Hungary too — the full list.

7 FamilySearch collections

Grouped by the ground each one covers, nationwide. A free account opens the images; some are restricted to a Family History Centre.

Hungary — nationwide 7

4 more collections, contributed

A directory David assembled, sorted by what kind of record each one is. Read this differently from the rest of the page. The descriptions are his, not an archive's catalogue, and nobody here has opened the volumes behind them. Every link was tried on 2026-09-20 and answered; the ones that did not are not listed.

Church and parish registers 1
Civil registration and vital records 1
Censuses and population lists 1
Probate, land and notarial 1
Immigration and emigration 1
Cemeteries and burials 1
Jewish and minority 1
General historical archives 1

24 places, 12 volumes

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