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Slovak and Czech Archives

by Duncan B. Gardiner, Ph.D., C.G., A.G.

© copyright 1996-1998 by FEEFHS; all rights reserved

Latest Update: 20 April 1998 (New eMail address)

Slovak and Czech Archives
by Duncan Gardiner, C.G., A.G.
eMail message to FEEFHS from Duncan Gardiner, C.G.: "Here is an updated archive address list. I have also added the Czech Embassy website address and an address where the form to make genealogical search requests to the Slovak archive administration can be obtained. I am sorry we cannot include diacritical marks on these addresses as posted on the Internet web at this time."

The Slovak and Czech archive systems do ancestry research for those who inquire by mail. They have a great deal of experience and are good at it, by and large. The charges are not cheap any more, but they are not excessive. The inquiries used to be handled by the Czechoslovak Embassy, but this is no longer the case, both because the two countries are separate and because the procedure has changed. However, you might want to write to the Czech or Slovak Embassy for information about the archive services.

Embassy of the Slovak Republic, 2201 Wisconsin Avenue N.W., Suite 250, Washington, D.C. 20007. There was no eMail address as of 22 July 1996, but you can access the forms requesting genealogical research by accessing the internet address http://www.iarelative.com/embassy.htm. The instructions give the address at Krizkova 7 - shown below - to which the form is to be returned.
Embassy of the Czech Republic, 3900 Spring of Freedom St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20008. Their e-mail address is 72360.544@compuserve.com. (The Czech Embassy has a website at http://www.czech.cz/washington. The main menu there does not list anything specifically related to genealogical research.)

If you want to write directly to the archive service in each country:

For Czech research: Archivni Sprava, Milady Horakove 133, 166 21 Praha 6, Czech Republic
For Slovak research: Archivna Sprava, Krizkova 7, 811 04 Bratislava, Slovakia

If you are at all doubtful about which archive will have the parish registers for the ancestral town in question, you should write to the archive administration in Prague or in Bratislava and they will make sure the appropriate archive handles the request. In case you do know which archive can help you, the list of addresses and telephone numbers is given below.

Both archive systems are used to mail inquiries and have someone who can deal with inquiries in English. But make it easy: Write in clear, short sentences and make clear requests.

Slovak state regional archives. (If you write directly to them, the first line of the address will read: "Statny oblastny archiv" and the last line will read "Slovak Republic" or "Slovakia".)

Banska Bystrica: Sladkovicova 1, 974 05 Banska Bystrica.
Telephone 088/372 08. [This address is to change during 1996.]
Bratislava: Krizkova 7, 811 04 Bratislava.
Telephone 460 51.
Bytca: Kastiel, 014 35 Bytca
Telephone 0821/36 22.
Kosice: Bacikova 1, 041 56 Kosice, Slovakia
Telephone 095/224 15.
Levoca: Nam. Majstra Pavla 7, 054 01 Levoca
Telephone 0966/24 86.
Nitra: Novozamocka 388, 949 08 Nitra-Ivanka
Telephone 087/643 84.
Presov: Slanska ul. 33, Nizna Sebastov, 080 06 Presov
Telephone 091/333 05.

The Slovak Central Archive may also have materials pertinent to family history. Its address:
Statny ustredny archiv SR, Drotarska cesta 42, 817 01 Bratislava; telephone 311 321.

County and Special Archives; There is a county archive system as well. The 35 county archives (okresne archivy) are not as well funded and many materials have not been catalogued. Uncatalogued materials are not available for study. In addition, Slovakia has a number of special archives, such as the Comenius University Archive in Bratislava, the Archive of Matica Slovenska in Martin, the Mining Archive in Banska Stiavnica. The Archive Administration in Bratislava will be able to supply information and addresses.

In each case below, the first line of the address will be "Statni oblastni archiv" and the last line will be "Czech Republic".)

Czech Regional Archives:

Praha: Horska 7, 128 00 Praha 2. Telephone 290 486 (Central Czech Lands).
Trebon: Zamek, 379 11 Trebon. Telephone 2344 (Southern Czech Lands).
Plzen: Sedlackova 44, 306 12 Plzen. Telephone 362 63 (Western Czech Lands).
Litomerice: Krajska 1, 412 74 Litomerice. Telephone 2214 (Northern Czech Lands).
Zamrsk: Zamek, 565 43 Zamrsk. Telephone (Vysoke Myto) 212 29 (Eastern Czech Lands).
Brno: Zerotinovo nam 3-5, pp 12, 662 12 Brno. Telephone 565 94 (Southern Moravia).
Opava: Snemovni 1, 746 22 Opava. Telephone 212 566 (Northern Moravia).

Jewish Records: The Statni ustredni archiv, Karmelitska 2, 118 01 Praha 1 (Mala Strana), telephone 531 551, holds the Jewish vital records.

Duncan Gardiner, C. G.
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