Where the records of Serbia are, who holds them, and what it costs to look. 0 indexed records reachable through FamilySearch alone.
3 of the 6 checked sources here can be opened tonight. 2are free images with no account. 1is an index with no images. 3are catalogue cards or paper in a building — a letter, not a click. On top of that, 9 worldwide services reach Serbia without a subscription.
Write to Arhiv Srbije, Hungaricana, Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár (Hungarian National Archives) for what is not online. FamilySearch has no catalogued collection for Serbia in this atlas. 3 pieces of this ground are mapped for jurisdiction, so the atlas can say whose archive held it in a given year.
12 places placed, 29 volumes walked. Open Serbia on the map, or tell us what is missing.
Whose archive this ground was
Record regions mapped in Serbia — which empire held the ground, and therefore which archive holds its paper.
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 7 eras Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Mostar, Tuzla
- Vojvodina and the Banat frontier 6 eras Novi Sad (Újvidék), Subotica (Szabadka), Zrenjanin, Sombor
- The Military Frontier — Vojna krajina 8 eras Lika, Kordun, Banija, the Slavonian frontier, Srijem
The archives
- Arhiv Vojvodine onsite Novi Sad, Serbia
Novi Sad. Vojvodina was Hungarian ground until 1918, so its registers are in the Hungarian series and its finding aids are in three languages — this archive is where the two filing systems meet.
- Arhiv Srbije onsite Belgrade, Serbia
The Serbian state archive. Church registers for the pre-1918 Kingdom, and the administrative record of a state that was Ottoman ground until 1878.
- 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.
- Matricula Online free Passau, Germany
Diocesan parish registers photographed and served free, without an account. Austria and much of Germany and Poland; the Italian entries are South Tyrol.
- 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.
- Žrtve rata 1941–1945 — Muzej žrtava genocida index Belgrade, Serbia
The Museum of Genocide Victims in Belgrade's name-by-name register of people killed in Yugoslavia between 1941 and 1945 — 659,122 records, free and without an account. Searchable by given name, surname, year of birth, the MUNICIPALITY AND PLACE OF RESIDENCE ON 6 APRIL 1941, and by place, year and circumstances of death; each row also carries the parent's name, place of birth and nationality as recorded. That pre-war residence field is what makes it genealogical rather than commemorative: it places a named person in a named village on a fixed date, which is exactly what a register would give you and often the only thing that survives for these years. Counted as an INDEX — it gives structured records, not images of the documents behind them. Scope is the whole of the former Yugoslavia; the countries listed here are the ones seen in the data (Vukovar and Vinkovci, Zavidovići and Lopare, Sremska Mitrovica), so it will also answer for Montenegro and North Macedonia beyond what has been checked here. The interface is Serbian. Read from the site itself on 2026-09-29; access class confirmed by use, not assumed. HOW TO SEARCH IT WITHOUT READING A FAMILY AS ABSENT. The surname field matches EXACTLY, not as a substring: «Franceschi» returns 0 while «Defranceschi» returns 2, so a stem finds nothing and every prefixed form has to be sent as its own query. And the spellings are not interchangeable — they hold DIFFERENT PEOPLE. «Defranceschi» gives two men at Pula and Vodnjan; «Defrančeški» gives a third at Pazin and Gologorica, and neither query returns the other's records. Query the Italian, the Croatian and the diacritic-stripped forms separately and treat the results as additive. Verified by search on 2026-09-29. One more thing worth knowing: the front end races when queries are run back to back, and can paint one query's rows under another's count, so a count is only trustworthy taken one query per page load.
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