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8 eras · 1000–2026 · 38 places

Prekmurje — the Hungarian Mur-land

Murska Sobota (Muraszombat), Lendava (Alsólendva), Beltinci, Turnišče, Tišina, Grad (Felsőlendva). Which empire held this ground in which years — and, the part that matters, which archive that means.

Where researchers lose records here

1919–1941 — THE HINGE. Yugoslav forces took the ground in August 1919 and the Treaty of Trianon confirmed it in 1920. The Hungarian-kept registers end here; from this point a Prekmurje family is filed in Slovenia, in the Drava Banovina from 1929.

Whose archive this ground was

YearsWho held itWhose archive that means
1000–1526 Kingdom of Hungary — Vas and Zala counties no registers survive

Before registers.
1526–1699 Royal Hungary no registers survive

Hungarian genealogy very often stops at 1700 (see the Hungary region). This atlas holds no Prekmurje volume from before 1895, so for these centuries there is nothing here to point at.
1699–1867 Habsburg — Kingdom of Hungary, in Vas and Zala counties Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár (Hungarian National Archives) · Hungaricana · FamilySearch

Parish registers resume, in Latin, kept by each congregation separately. The ground is split between two counties: FamilySearch's own tree files Tišina and Grad under Vas and Turnišče under Zala, so a Prekmurje family has to be looked for under the county its village was in.
1867–1919 Austria–Hungary — the Hungarian half Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár (Hungarian National Archives) · Hungaricana · FamilySearch

CIVIL REGISTRATION FROM 1 OCTOBER 1895 — state-kept, in Hungarian, covering everybody regardless of religion (see the Hungary region). It is all this atlas holds for the area: every volume begins in 1895 or later and is filed by FamilySearch under «Slovenia, Prekmurje and Međimurje, Civil Registers, 1895-1918». Međimurje is in Croatia today, so that collection's country is only half the ground it covers.
1919–1941 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, then Yugoslavia Arhiv Republike Slovenije · SIRAnet · dLib.si

THE HINGE. Yugoslav forces took the ground in August 1919 and the Treaty of Trianon confirmed it in 1920. The Hungarian-kept registers end here; from this point a Prekmurje family is filed in Slovenia, in the Drava Banovina from 1929.
1941–1945 Hungary — the annexation of 1941 Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár (Hungarian National Archives) · Hungaricana · Arolsen Archives

Hungarian forces occupied Prekmurje in April 1941 and Hungary annexed it, so these years are filed under Hungary again. It is one of the three occupation zones the Carniola region's 1941 era refers to.
1945–1991 Yugoslavia — the Socialist Republic of Slovenia Arhiv Republike Slovenije · SIRAnet · dLib.si
1991–2026 Slovenia Arhiv Republike Slovenije · SIRAnet · dLib.si · FamilySearch

The rings are approximate — deliberately. They exist to shade which filing system a place fell under, not to adjudicate a border. A place near a ring's edge should be checked against both neighbours.

See the whole span, 1000–2026, on the map →

The map takes a range, and a range that crosses one of the rows above is where records get lost: the family never moved, and the archive on the far side of the handover will tell you it holds nothing.

38 places on this ground

27 FamilySearch collections reach this ground

Ranked with the regional ones first — a collection for a province is usually a better lead than a national index, though the national index is often where a name is actually written down. A free account opens the images.

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