Belarus Genealogy

Minsk - Capital of Belarus Getting started with Belarus research Welcome to the Belarus Page! FamilySearch Wiki is a community website dedicated to helping people throughout the world learn how to find their ancestors. Through the Belarus Page you can learn how to find, use, and analyze Belarusian records of genealogical value. The content is variously targeted to beginners, intermediate, and expert researchers. Please visit the help page to learn more about using the site. The Belarus Page is a work in progress, your contributions and feedback are essential! Research Tools Hamburg Passenger Lists Wiki article Germans from Russia Wiki article Genealogy/Family History Archives of Belarus http://archives.gov.by/eng/index.php?id=12 Jurisdictions Brest Province Homyel' Province Horad Minsk Municipality Hrodna Province Mahilyow Province Minsk Province Vitsyebsk Province Did you know? Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north. To read more about Belarus see The World Factbook and Wikipedia. Featured Content After seven decades as a constituent republic of the USSR, Belarus attained its independence in 1991. It has retained closer political and economic ties to Russia than any of the other former Soviet republics. Belarus and Russia signed a treaty on a two-state union on 8 December 1999 envisioning greater political and economic integration. Although Belarus agreed to a framework to carry out the accord, serious implementation has yet to take place. Since his election in July 1994 as the country's first president, Alexandr LUKASHENKO has steadily consolidated his power through authoritarian means. Government restrictions on freedom of speech and the press, peaceful assembly, and religion continue. For more information go to: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bo.html#Intro Help Wanted In order to make this wiki a better research tool, we need your help! Many tasks need to be done. You can help by: Expand an articleor short page Create a new article Categorize articles Add external links to articles Add internal links to articles Other... (Your text or images here, or use the table below:) (Your Bullet) (Your Bullet) (Your Bullet) (Your Bullet) (Your Bullet) (Your Bullet) (All text below this is included in a column on the left side of the screen.) News New ‘Find Our Roots’ program to offer research services for Grodno Archives Hot off the Press! more... Topics Archives and Libraries Biographies Cemeteries Census Church Records Civil Registration Court Records Directories Emigration and Immigration Ethnic Groups Genealogies Geography Geography (Historical Handwriting History Jurisdictions Land and Property Language Military Names, Personal Newspapers Nobility Occupations Periodicals Place Names Probate Records Schools Social Life and Customs Societies Taxation Vital Records Events Current Events