Additional to the village of Petend / today Vigántpetend, in the early 1900s there were two Petend-puszta in Zala Co. Puszta usually not an independent entity, here jurisdiction wise were part of Mihalyhaza and Nagyrecse.
History of ZALAPETEND, Ceased locality name
Unification of localities
Year of unification, Name of localities concerned
1938 Vigántpetend = Zalapetend + Vigánt
Civil registration for Zala-Petend were in Taliándörögd, available for research at LDS/FHLC:
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.a...1895-1973 Civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths for Taliándörögd, Zala, Hungary. Text in Hungarian. Civil registration began October 1895.