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''[[Europe]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Belarus Genealogy|Belarus]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] Belarus Church Records''  
''[[Europe]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Belarus Genealogy|Belarus]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] Belarus Church Records''  


Research use: Uniquely identify individuals and connections of those in one generation to the next.  Transcripts are difficult to research because generally all parishes in a district are filed together for each year.  Consequently, a researcher must refer to many volumes to identify the entries for a single parish.
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Record type: Church records kept by parish priests of births/baptisms, marriages, and deaths/burials.  The term is also used to refer to the records of denominations that had jurisdictions other than parishes.
== Church Records ==


General: The Church acted as both a religious and civil agent in recording vital events and church sacraments such as baptism and burial.  Peter the Great mandated the keeping of Orthodox books in 1722. The format was standardized in 1724.  Printed forms were introduced in 1806.  In 1838 a format was introduced that prevailed until 1920 when civil registration began. The priest made a transcript for the ecclesiastical court (dukhovnaia konsistoriia) having jurisdiction.  Jewish transcripts were filed with the local town council (gorodskaia duma).  Old Believer and Baptist transcripts were sent to the provincial administration (gubernskoe upravlenie).  The distinction between the original and the transcript is often ignored by Belarusian record keepers.
Research use: Uniquely identify individuals and connections of those in one generation to the next. Transcripts are difficult to research because generally all parishes in a district are filed together for each year. Consequently, a researcher must refer to many volumes to identify the entries for a single parish.  


Time period: Orthodox, 1722; Greek Catholic, 1796; Roman Catholic, 1613 (transcripts begin in 1826); Evangelical/other Protestant, 1641(transcripts begin in 1833); Moslem, 1828; Jews, 1835; Old Believers, 1874; Baptists, 1879–all to about 1930.
Record type: Church records kept by parish priests of births/baptisms, marriages, and deaths/burials. The term is also used to refer to the records of denominations that had jurisdictions other than parishes.  


Contents: Names of the person and other family members, residence, relationships, dates and place of birth and baptism, marriage, death and burial. Baptisms include names of godparents; marriages include the ages of the bride and groom; burials include the age of the deceased and cause of death.
General: The Church acted as both a religious and civil agent in recording vital events and church sacraments such as baptism and burial. Peter the Great mandated the keeping of Orthodox books in 1722. The format was standardized in 1724. Printed forms were introduced in 1806. In 1838 a format was introduced that prevailed until 1920 when civil registration began. The priest made a transcript for the ecclesiastical court (dukhovnaia konsistoriia) having jurisdiction. Jewish transcripts were filed with the local town council (gorodskaia duma). Old Believer and Baptist transcripts were sent to the provincial administration (gubernskoe upravlenie). The distinction between the original and the transcript is often ignored by Belarusian record keepers.  


Location: Central state historical archives in Minsk and Grodno, the regional archive of Brest, civil registration offices.
Time period: Orthodox, 1722; Greek Catholic, 1796; Roman Catholic, 1613 (transcripts begin in 1826); Evangelical/other Protestant, 1641(transcripts begin in 1833); Moslem, 1828; Jews, 1835; Old Believers, 1874; Baptists, 1879–all to about 1930.  


Population coverage: 70% coverage for early periods, 90% from about 1830 through the destruction of most churches in the 1930s, 50% among minority religions and dissident groups such as Old Believers and Baptists.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Belarus,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 2002.</ref>
Contents: Names of the person and other family members, residence, relationships, dates and place of birth and baptism, marriage, death and burial. Baptisms include names of godparents; marriages include the ages of the bride and groom; burials include the age of the deceased and cause of death.  


== Original Records ==
Location: Central state historical archives in Minsk and Grodno, the regional archive of Brest, civil registration offices.
 
Population coverage: 70% coverage for early periods, 90% from about 1830 through the destruction of most churches in the 1930s, 50% among minority religions and dissident groups such as Old Believers and Baptists.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Belarus,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 2002.</ref>
 
=== Original Records ===


Aside from the records already available through FamilySearch.org, there are also Belarus church and synagogue records listed in several archives.  
Aside from the records already available through FamilySearch.org, there are also Belarus church and synagogue records listed in several archives.  
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== FamilySearch.org  ==
=== FamilySearch.org  ===


I found that the best way to look for records on FamilySearch is to search using the 'place' name (name of town where parish church is/was located&nbsp;is a good place to start).  
I found that the best way to look for records on FamilySearch is to search using the 'place' name (name of town where parish church is/was located&nbsp;is a good place to start).  
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== Confession Lists ==
 
Research use: Identify family groups and ages.  They are easier to use than the revision lists because they include all classes of society.  They are also a metrical book substitute.
 
Record type: Register of orthodox parishioners taken at Easter confession.
 
General: Attendance at confession and communion was required of the family members over the age of seven.  Sometimes they are interfiled with metrical books in a record group or collection.
 
Time period: 1723-about 1930.
 
Contents: Lists head of household, names of family members (including children not attending confession) with their ages and relationship to head of household, residence (number of house or other identification), and whether or not they attended confession.
 
Location: Central state historical archives in Minsk and Grodno.
Population coverage: 10% (see preservation note).
 
Preservation of records/vulnerability: Because this is a voluminous record type, many have been discarded.  The standard rule was to retain only 2% but in some cases more were preserved.  Consequently, these exist for only a small percentage of parishes.  The records are well preserved in good facilities.  The records were little used during the communist period, 1918-1991.<ref name="profile"/>


== References  ==
== References  ==


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