Record Atlas
1 FamilySearch collection · 3 archives · 43 places · 1865–1903

Romania

Where the records of Romania are, who holds them, and what it costs to look. 759 indexed records reachable through FamilySearch alone.

Where to start in Romania

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

Write to Arhivele Naționale ale României, Hungaricana, Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár (Hungarian National Archives) for what is not online. FamilySearch has 1 collection covering it, running 1865–1903, 759 indexed records. 4 pieces of this ground are mapped for jurisdiction, so the atlas can say whose archive held it in a given year.

43 places placed, 0 volumes walked. Not one of them has had its paper counted yet, so treat the shelf here as a list of somewhere to look rather than a list of what survives. Open Romania on the map, or tell us what is missing.

Whose archive this ground was

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

The archives

  • Arhivele Naționale ale României catalogue Bucharest, Romania

    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.

  • 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 Romania too — the full list.

1 FamilySearch collections

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

Romania — nationwide 1

2 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 2
Probate, land and notarial 1
Jewish and minority 1

43 places, 0 volumes

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