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In other languages: - Archives collect and preserve original documents of organizations such as churches or governments. Libraries generally collect published sources such as books, maps, and microfilm.
- If you plan to visit a repository, contact them and ask for information about their collection, hours, services, and fees. Ask if they require you to have a reader’s ticket (a paper indicating you are a responsible researcher) to view the records, and ask how to obtain one.
- Although the records you need may be in an archive or library, the FamilySearch Library may have microfilmed and/or digitized copies of them.
Archives[edit | edit source]
National Archives[edit | edit source]
- The Balkan wars as well as the devastation of World War I contributed to an extensive destruction of archives.
- In the period between the two world wars, the state archive in Beograd gathered Macedonian records there. The occupational government during World War II destroyed the archives that had been gathered in Skopje as of that date.
- The Archive of FYROM (Macedonia)was established in 1951. An earthquake destroyed the facility in 1963. In 1969 a new building was completed.[1]
- Records tend to be government administrative records with no genealogical help.
State Archives of the Republic of North Macedonia
Kay Dimitar Vlahov no. 19
1000 Skopje, North Macedonia
Phone: +389 2 3237 211
Fax: +389 2 3165 944
Email: contact@arhiv.gov.mk
Regional Department Archives[edit | edit source]
There are nine regional archives located in Bitola, Kumanovo, Ohrid, Prilep, Skopje, Strumica, Tetovo, Titov Veles, and Stip.
Church Records in Department Archives[edit | edit source]
- Department of Bitola has birth registers, weddings and deaths from 1801/1962
- Department of Ohrid has records of the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Islamic Religious Community.
- Department of Prilep has records the religious institutions of the Orthodox Church from the church municipalities and churches (1872-1945)
- Department of Strumica has Methodist church records back to 1882.
- Department of Tetovo has records from the Orthodox Church (1887-1937) - bishop's offices, church communities, churches and monasteries, and the Islamic Religious Community (1930-1944) - Waqa's attorneys and imams.
- Department of Stip has records from the Orthodox Church (1918-1948) - bishop's offices, parishes, churches and monasteries and from the Islamic Religious Community (1921-1946) - Muftis in Stip, Kocani and Radovish.
Libraries[edit | edit source]
National and University Library "St. Kliment of Ohrid" Wikipedia Information
National and University Library "St. Kliment of Ohrid"
Blvd. "Goce Delchev" no. 6
P.O. 566
Skopje
Republic of Macedonia
Email:kliment@nubsk.edu.mk
Telephone: +389 2 3115 177
Fax: +389 2 3226 846
Website
Catalogues
Digital Library Collections in the Digital Library
Macedonian e-Libraries
Museums[edit | edit source]
Google Links to Museums in North Macedonia
National Museum of Macedonia
Josif Mihaljovic 7
Skopje, Macedonia
Phone: 389 2 3129 323; 389 2 3116 044
Email: musmk@mt.net.mk
The large, white and distinctly decrepit Yugoslav-era building just below the Mustafa Pasha Mosque is the central location for a series of museums located around the Old Bazaar, including at the must-see Kuršumli Han. Elsewhere in the complex you can find an Historical Museum, Ethnographic Museum, Natural History Museum and Icon Gallery.[2]
Macedonia’s long and legendary history has been carefully preserved in its museums, the most important one being in Skopje. The Archaeological Museum takes the tourist on a journey through the millennia, from the Neolithic Age, the Bronze and the Iron Ages, the Classical and the Hellenic Periods, all the way through to the Roman, Slavic, Byzantine and Turkish Periods. The Historical Museum gives a chronological overview of Macedonian history throughout the centuries up to the National War of Liberation. The Ethnographic Museum offers thematically displayed set of items. Finally, the Natural History Museum showcases many examples of the indigenous and sometimes odd flora and fauna found throughout Macedonia.[3]
Record Offices[edit | edit source]
Republic of North Macedonia, Office for Management of Registers
Bul. St. Cyril and Methodius 54
1000 Skopje, R. Macedonia
Telephone:02 3223-787
Email: contact@uvmk.gov.mk
Addresses of Regional Offices
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Macedonia,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1998.
- ↑ "Museum of Macedonia", Skopje in Your Pocket, https://www.inyourpocket.com/skopje/museum-of-macedonia_150517v, accessed 26 November 2023.
- ↑ "Museum of Macedonia", in Museums of the World, http://museu.ms/museum/details/205/museum-of-macedonia, accessed 26 November 2022.