ZVA has acquired copies of many cadastre records for the villages of Zichydorf, Györgyháza, Setschanfeld, Gross Gaj, Ürményháza, and Heideschütz for various years. These are records of property ownership compiled for tax collecting. They really do not have any genealogical value, but they can be very interesting if you are trying to learn more about your family’s circumstances in the Heimat. The following definitions from Wikipedia will help to understand these records.
A cadastre (also spelled cadaster), using a cadastral survey or cadastral map, is a comprehensive register of the metes-and-bounds real property of a country.
Metes and bounds is a system or method of describing land. Typically the system uses physical features of the local geography, along with directions and distances, to define and describe the boundaries of a parcel of land. The boundaries are described in a running prose style, working around the parcel in sequence, from a point of beginning, returning back to the same point. It may include references to other adjoining parcels (and their owners), and it, in turn, could also be referred to in later surveys. At the time the description is compiled, it may have been marked on the ground with permanent monuments placed where there were no suitable natural monuments.
Our records contain lists of landowners with the numbered parcels they owned along with (in most cases) maps showing the locations of the individual plots. We only ordered the lists and maps we thought were most likely to be wanted, but we may be able to obtain data and maps of other municipalities if you are interested. Please inquire.
We found that some of the very large files caused difficulties for older computer s, so we split large files into two or more volumes. For one Zichydorf file for 1875 there are three different options. In one option, all the information is contained in one PDF file. In the other two options, the information is split into three or six files. Take your pick or download them all.
Below is a list of the files and folders contained in this package.
Cadastre Records Contents – This document.
Cadastre Records Interpretation – Translations of the column headings and some of the entries in the documents. There are additional interpretations in the Georgshausen folder.
Scan0001.jpg – A rough hand drawn map of how the municipalities fit together. The towns are marked with a cross (+).
Bioszeg
– BIOSZEG SET 1875.pdf – Inofrmation regarding Bioseg Puzsta, north of Zichydorf. The file for Bioseg contains three documents: a municipal register for house taxes, an alphabetical list of owners of town houses, and a list of subdivisions of the municipality. Bioseg was an estate with a single owner. The residents were all tenants on the estate. Thus, the only name on the first two lists is the estate owner, M. K. Kincstár.
Hajdusicza
– HAJDUSICZA TAX PAYERS REGISTER ABC 1875.pdf – Alphabetical list of town houses tax register.
Georgsahusen
– 2.jpg to 28.jpg – Individual maps of each grid on the large map. 1, 22 and 26 are missing.
– GEORGSHAUSEN NAVIGATIONAL MAP.jpg – Large grid map.
– GYORGYHAZA CADASTER BOUNDARIES 1874.pdf – Written description of the cadastre boundaries of the municipality.
– Gyorgyhaza Cadaster Boundaries Map 1874.jpg – Similar to navigational map, but with less detail.
– GYORGYHAZA LAND LOTS & OWNERS 1875 VOL 1.pdf – First volume of list of land lots and owners for the municipality.
– GYORGYHAZA LAND LOTS & OWNERS 1875 VOL 2.pdf – Second volume of list of land lots and owners for the municipality.
– GYORGYHAZA LAND LOTS & OWNERS 1884 VOL 1.pdf – First volume of list of land lots and owners for the municipality.
– GYORGYHAZA LAND LOTS & OWNERS 1884 VOL 2.pdf – Second volume of list of land lots and owners for the municipality.
– GYORGYHAZA LAND LOTS & OWNERS 1911 VOL 1.pdf – First volume of list of land lots and owners for the municipality.
– GYORGYHAZA LAND LOTS & OWNERS 1911 VOL 2.pdf – Second volume of list of land lots and owners for the municipality.
– GYORGYHAZA LAND LOTS & OWNERS 1911 VOL 3.pdf – Third volume of list of land lots and owners for the municipality.
– Kind of Boundary Marker.doc – Partial translation of GYORGYHAZA CADASTER BOUNDARIES 1874.pdf
– Translated from German 2.docx – Another version of the above.
Gross Gaj
– NAGY GAY & MALENITZFALVA TAX PAYERS REGISTER ABC 1875.pdf – Alphabetical list of taxpayers in the village, not the municipality.
– Nagy Gay Cadaster Boundaries Map 1874.jpg – Map of municipality.
Setschanfeld
– 1.jpg to 9.jpg – Individual maps of each grid on the large map.
– SZECSENFALVA CADASTER BOUNDARIES 1874.pdf – Written description of the cadastre boundaries of the municipality.
– SZECSENFALVA LAND LOTS & OWNERS 1875.pdf – List of land lots and owners for the municipality.
– SZECSENFALVA LAND LOTS & OWNERS 1912 VOL 1.pdf – First volume of list of land lots and owners for the municipality.
– SZECSENFALVA LAND LOTS & OWNERS 1912 VOL 2.pdf – Second volume of list of land lots and owners for the municipality.
– SZECSENFALVA LAND LOTS & OWNERS 1912 VOL 3.pdf – Third volume of list of land lots and owners for the municipality.
– SZECSENFALVA LAND LOTS & OWNERS 1912 VOL 4.pdf – Fourth volume of list of land lots and owners for the municipality.
– SZECSENFALVA NAVIGATIONAL MAP.jpg – Large grid map.
Ürményhaza
-Urmenyhaza Cadaster Boundaries Map 1874.jpg – Large grid map.
– URMENYHAZA LAND LOTS & OWNERS 1875 VOL 1.pdf – First volume of list of land lots and owners for the municipality.
– URMENYHAZA LAND LOTS & OWNERS 1875 VOL 2.pdf – Second volume of list of land lots and owners for the municipality.
– URMENYHAZA LAND LOTS & OWNERS 1875 VOL 3.pdf – Third volume of list of land lots and owners for the municipality.
– URMENYHAZA LAND LOTS & OWNERS 1875 VOL 4.pdf – Fourth volume of list of land lots and owners for the municipality.
– URMENYHAZA LAND LOTS & OWNERS 1875 VOL 5.pdf – Fifth volume of list of land lots and owners for the municipality.
– URMENYHAZA TAX PAYERS REGISTER ABC 1875.pdf – Alphabetical list of taxpayers in the village, not the municipality.
Zichydorf – four files & five folders
– ZICHYDORF CADASTER BOUNDARIES 1874 MAP.jpg – Map of municipality.
– ZICHYDORF CADASTER BOUNDARIES 1874.pdf – Written description of the cadastre boundaries of the municipality.
– ZICHYDORF TAX PAYERS REGISTER 1875.pdf – Alphabetical list of town houses tax register.
– ZICHYDORF TOWN PARTS 1875.pdf – Lists the different subdivisions of the municipality.
– ZICHYDORF LL & OWN 1875 1 volume – Folder containing list of land lots and owners for the municipality in one volume.
– ZICHYDORF LL & OWN 1875 3 volumes – Folder containing list of land lots and owners for the municipality in three volumes.
– ZICHYDORF LL & OWN 1875 6 volumes – Folder containing list of land lots and owners for the municipality in six volumes.
– ZICHYDORF LL & OWN 1911 – Folder containing list of land lots and owners for the municipality in eleven volumes.
– ZICHYDORF MAPS JPGS – Cadastre maps for the municipality, including the large grid map. Of 29 grid maps, 1-5 and 15 are missing.
To order this package, send $20 to Zichydorf Village Association, 2114 E Laurier Cres., Regina SK, S4V 0P6, Canada OR use the Donation box on the left side of this page. Be sure to specify what you are ordering. When I have received your payment, I will send you instructions on how to download the package.