Ewa Grin-Piszczek

In the years 1874–1877 Mieczysław Błażowski took up the job of organizing the Przemyśl municipal files. The result of his work was the development of the Catalogue of the State Archives of the Royal City of Przemyśl. It has the form of a book and is currently kept at the National Archive in Przemyśl in the fonds “Files of the city of Przemyśl”, sign. 2388. Apart from the catalogue of archival material Błażowski developed a list of printed works titled „The list of printed works found in the archives”. The list was later complemented by Błażowski’s successors at the position of the city archivist – Kazimierz Górski and Tadeusz Troskolański. “The list of printed works…” has 95 items and contains printed works which the fonds obtained by way of donations or purchases. Taking the position of the city archivist in 1911, Tadeusz Troskolański began developing a professional archive library, e.g. through purchasing publications on paleography and diplomacy

In the State Archives in Przemyśl there are chronicles from parishes of the Latin rite and from Greek-Catholic parishes. They are documents from the parishes in Tartaków and Wojniłów which belonged to the Lviv Archdiocese, located in fonds no. 2441 “Parish files and register books of the Lviv Archdiocese and Przemyśl diocese of the Roman-Catholic rite”. The chronicles of Greek-Catholic parishes in the fonds of the Przemyśl Archives are represented by: a chronicle of the parish in Dębno (the Leżajsk district), Grab, and a chronicle from the parish in Smolnik near Lutowiska. This paper presents general information on the chronicles, their appearance, the chronicler, the content and the manner of writing. The analysis of the preserved parish chronicles in the fonds of the State Archives in Przemyśl allow to decide that the manner of keeping them depended largely on the involvement and ingenuity of their authors.