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Reliability: In former Austrian territory the registers are fairly accurate for Roman and Greek-Catholic persons but the registration of non-Catholics was sometimes incomplete and inaccurate until responsibility for registration was broadened in the mid-1800s.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Poland,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1987-1999.</ref> | Reliability: In former Austrian territory the registers are fairly accurate for Roman and Greek-Catholic persons but the registration of non-Catholics was sometimes incomplete and inaccurate until responsibility for registration was broadened in the mid-1800s.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Poland,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1987-1999.</ref> | ||
===Civil Transcripts of Church Records in the Russian Partition<br>[''Odpisy Cywilne Ksig Metrykalnych w Zaborze Rosyjskim'']=== | |||
Research Use: Civil transcripts are a primary source for birth, marriage, and death information and lineage-linking data. | |||
Record Type: Transcripts of birth, marriage, and death records prepared by Catholic clergy as a form of civil registration. Napoleon established the Duchy of Warsaw in 1806. Whereas the French Empire introduced true civil registration in most of the areas under their administration, they instead introduced in 1808 a system of civil transcripts under the control of the Catholic clergy. This practice was essentially a form of universal civil registration. Although most of the Duchy of Warsaw came under Russian administration after 1815, the Napoleonic practice of civil transcripts continued in areas governed by Russia until the creation of the new Polish Republic in 1918. Napoleonic civil transcripts are found in all of Russian Poland and in parts of Prussian Posen and in Kraków, all formerly under Napoleonic administration. | |||
Catholic clergy were responsible for recording all births, marriages, and deaths until 1826 when the non-Catholic community was allowed to keep its own separate official registers. After 1826 clergy of other religions (Evangelical, Orthodox, Jewish) were required to maintain civil transcripts of their church record in the officially designated Napoleonic format. These records, then, are essentially civil transcripts of the various denominational registers except in the case of Jews where these civil records were usually the only record kept. The early records were kept in Polish, but usually in Russian from 1868. The birth, marriage, and death registers usually have an index for each year. | |||
Time Period: 1808 to 1918 (may continue into Republic period). | |||
Contents: Birth registers: child’s given name; registration date and place, birth date; father’s name, age, occupation, and residence; mother’s maiden name and age; names, ages, occupations, and residences of godparents. Marriage registers: marriage date and place; names, ages, occupations, and residences of bride and groom; parents of bride and groom; usually also birthplaces of bride and groom; sometimes birth dates; names, ages, occupations, and residences of witnesses. Marriage supplements: [''dówody, alegata, aneksy, or dokumenty do akt maenstw''] documents which support various facts in the marriage registers, such as the birth certificates for the groom or bride, death certificates of a parent or former spouse, etc. Death registers: date and place of registration of death, death date and place, name of deceased, age at death; often includes parents, spouse, surviving children; sometimes birthplace; names, ages, occupations, and residences of witnesses. | |||
Location: Civil transcripts of the Duchy of Warsaw and the Russian Kingdom of Poland are in state provincial archives. Recent records (less than 100 years) are in local vital records offices [''Urzd Stanu Cywilnego'']. | |||
Population Coverage: In the former Russian territory, civil transcripts recorded about 95% of the population. | |||
Reliability: Very good.<ref name="profile"/> | |||
== Information Recorded in Church Registers == | == Information Recorded in Church Registers == | ||