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 ====Confession lists====
+Record type: Register of orthodox parishioners taken at Easter confession. 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.
-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-ca. 1930.