How do we define "Northern Moravia" for this project? I'm a little confused by the correspondence between Czech archives, modern district and regions, and historical districts and regions. The Catholic church records in the regional archive in Opava (digitized on https://digi.archives.cz) are held in the fond "Sbírka matrik Severomoravského kraje." Applying Google Translate to the Wikipedia page for Severomoravského kraje, it seems this was dissolved in 2021. The webpage says:
"The region [Severomoravského kraje] was defined by the districts of Bruntál, Frýdek-Místek, Jeseník, Karviná, Nový Jičín, Olomouc, Opava, Ostrava-město, Přerov, Šumperk, Vsetín. The districts of Bruntál, Frýdek-Místek, Karviná, Nový Jičín, Opava and Ostrava-město form the territory of the self-governing Moravian-Silesian Region, the districts of Jeseník, Olomouc, Přerov and Šumperk (together with the district of Prostějov, which territorially belonged to the South Moravian Region) form the territory of the self-governing Olomouc Region. Vsetín District belongs to the self-governing Zlín Region."
As a practical measure, should "Northern Moravia" simply correspond to the holdings of the Regional Archive in Opava?
Yours in confusion,
Michael Gordy
