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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'' | ||
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== Church Records == | == 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. | 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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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> | 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 === | === 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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[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~polwgw/lutheran.html][[User:Janenowak|Janenowak]] 00:34, 3 January 2015 (UTC) | [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~polwgw/lutheran.html][[User:Janenowak|Janenowak]] 00:34, 3 January 2015 (UTC) | ||
== Confession Lists == | == Confession Lists == | ||
Research use: Identify family groups and ages. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | Location: Central state historical archives in Minsk and Grodno. Population coverage: 10% (see preservation note). | ||
Population coverage: 10% (see preservation note). | |||
Preservation of records/vulnerability: Because this is a voluminous record type, many have been discarded. | 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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{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
[[Category:Belarus]] [[Category:Countries_in_Europe]] | [[Category:Belarus]] [[Category:Countries_in_Europe]][[Category:Church records in Belarus]] | ||