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=='''Old Believer Church Records'''==
=='''Old Believer Church Records'''==
===Writing for Records===  
===Writing for Records===  
*[ '''Google Maps search results for Old Believer churches in Russia''']  Be sure to scroll through all the pages.  There will be several pages with 20 entries each. You can also enter the name of your ancestors' town in Google Maps with the search terms "Old Believer churches near________".
Dissenters from Orthodoxy who refused to accept alterations of religious rituals and prayers. Civilian [[Russia Civil Registration|'''registration of birth and marriage''']] by police mandated in 1874 for those who were born into Old Believer families. One copy was made and kept in the provincial administration - ''gubernskoye pravleniye''.
 
Dissenters from Orthodoxy who refused to accept alterations of religious rituals and prayers. Civilian registration of birth and marriage by police mandated in 1874 for those who were born into Old Believer families. One copy was made and kept in the provincial administration - ''gubernskoye pravleniye''.


=='''Baptist Church Record'''==
=='''Baptist Church Record'''==
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