You cannot edit this page. Please review the following reasons:
If you have editing rights to the English Wiki, please check to make sure you are logged in and try again. If you are not an editor, you can request to become an editor.
Start Date:
End Date:
Free text:
{{breadcrumb | link1=[[Belarus Genealogy|Belarus]] | link2= | link3= | link4= | link5=[[Belarus Civil Registration|Civil Registration]] }} ==How to Find the Records== ===Online Collections=== *'''1837-1917''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1476/ Belarus, Birth Records from Select Cities, 1837-1917] at Ancestry - index ($) *'''1857-1891, 1921''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1525/ Belarus, Marriage Records from Minsk (1921) and Mogilev (1857-1891)] at Ancestry. - index ($) *'''1889''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1526/ Belarus, Minsk, List of Deaths, 1889] at Ancestry - index ($) *[https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10993/belarus-revision-lists?s=275764761 Belarus, Revision Lists] at MyHeritage — index ($) ===Offices to Contact=== Civil registration offices exist at the local and regional levels. Copies of local registrations are sent to regional offices.<br> The Bureau of Civil Status Acts (ZAGS) creates and maintains civil registration. The bureau is subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and is separate from the national archive system. <br> Registration of births must be done within two months of birth and deaths within three days.<br> Registration offices are collocated with "marriage palaces" permitting the registration and performance of weddings to occur at the same place and time. ==Historical Background== Time period: 1920-present ==Coverage and Compliance== Low coverage for the first decade of registration (1920-about 1930), then 85% thereafter. The civil war (about 1921-1922)<ref>Wikipedia, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War#Belarus Polish–Soviet War], (accessed 22 August 2020)</ref> of the early Soviet period inhibited registration. For two years it was not enforced. The system was established first in urban and later in rural areas. Gaps persisted through 1926. Civil registration broke down in the occupied areas during World War II and some registers were burned.<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> ==Information Recorded in the Records== ===Birth Records=== *Date *Names of principal and parents *Occupation and religious preference of parents *Place of residence for parents *Name of informant ===Marriage Records=== *Date *Names of principal and parents *Occupation and religious preference of parents *Place of residence of the groom and bride *Names of witnesses ===Death Records=== *Date *Place of residence of the deceased *Names of principal and parents *Age at death *Cause of death *Place of burial == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Belarus]] [[Category:Civil Registration]]