[2] On August 4, 1645, a Zota from Chernivtsi has signed as a purchase contract for the great logothete and founder of the Coșula Monastery Gavrilaș Mateiaș.

[4] Sever was the second son of Ioan (Iancu) the cavalier of Zotta (b. October 10, 1840, Borauti - d. March 19, 1896, Novoselytsia), landowner, lawyer, member of the Dieta of Bucovina and of the Imperial Council of Vienna, and of his wife Elena (Ileana, Ilinca) (d. 1882), born Hurmuzachi.

He founded the Genealogical Archive magazine that has appeared from January 1, 1912, which would be, as Zotta said, the alien to political struggles and far from any snobbish tendency of social differentiation.

He was the successor of Ioan Tanoviceanu (law professor from Iași, specialized in the genealogy of the Prâjescu family from the Stolniceni village).

Zotta has carried out a rich publicity activity based primarily on the country's documentary treasury, gathered at the State Archives repositories.

[11] Thus, under the aegis of the Society of History and Archeology, in October 1921, the Ioan Neculce magazine appeared in Iasi, in which were published the studies and documents elaborated by him, Gheorghe Ghibănescu, Teodor Burada, Nicolai Andriescu-Bogdan and others.

In all the editions of the Ioan Neculce journal that appeared between 1921 and 1933, Sever Zotta published studies and communications on Iasi's past, among which the interesting historical research on the Golia monastery were noted.

[citation needed] Appreciated by D. Onciul and Nicolae Iorga for his outstanding scholarship in the field of genealogical studies, Sever Zotta entered into the Romanian historiography as a genealogist par excellence.

Surprised by the events of the summer of 1940 at his home in Davydivka (Storojineț County - today in Ukraine), Sever Zotta preferred to stay on site to save library and the manuscript collection.

[citation needed] On June 13, 1941, he was arrested by NKVD commissioners, who only gave him ten minutes to do his baggage, being deported by the Soviets to the Ural.

The document is dated of June 29, 1940, so it was written in the last hours before the closing of the new border ... and brought to the country by the Sever Zotta's son, the last left.

The Sever Zotta Romanian Institute of Genealogy and Heraldry in Iași bears his name, honoring his contribution to the development of these branches of historical science in Romania.

[citation needed] Appreciated by D. Onciul and N. Iorga for his outstanding scholarship in the field of genealogical studies, Sever Zotta entered the Romanian historiography as the genealogist par excellence.