Russia Online Genealogy Records

Russia

Online Genealogy Records

These are genealogy links to Russia online databases and indexes that may include birth records, marriage records, death records, biographies, cemeteries, censuses, histories, immigration records, land records, military records, newspapers, obituaries, or probate records. Some subscription websites listed below can be searched for free at a FamilySearch center or FamilySearch affiliate library.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths: Church Records and Civil Registration Births 1721-1939: Russia, Tatarstan Church Books at FamilySearch; images only 1722-1918: Russia, Tver Church Books at FamilySearch; index & images 1748-1934: Russia, Samara Church Books at FamilySearch; index & images 1755-1917: Russia, Births and Baptisms at FamilySearch; index only; Also at MyHeritage ($); Also at Ancestry ($); Also at Findmypast ($) 1768-1939: Russia, Simbirsk Church Books at FamilySearch; images only 1833-1885: Russia, Lutheran Church Book Duplicates at FamilySearch; index & images; Also at Ancestry ($) 1869-1917: Russia, Samara Church Books at MyHeritage; index & images ($) Archive Search (includes church records) at Yandex; index & images British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms at Findmypast; index & images ($) Perm Oblast Church Records; index & images Marriages 1721-1939: Russia, Tatarstan Marriage Books at FamilySearch; images only 1722-1918: Russia, Tver Church Books at FamilySearch; index & images 1748-1934: Russia, Samara Church Books at FamilySearch; index & images 1768-1939: Russia, Simbirsk Church Books at FamilySearch; images only 1793-1919: Russia, Marriages at FamilySearch; index only; Also at MyHeritage ($); Also at Ancestry ($); Also at Findmypast ($) 1833-1885: Russia, Lutheran Church Book Duplicates at FamilySearch; index & images; Also at Ancestry ($) 1869-1917: Russia, Samara Church Books at MyHeritage; index & images ($) Archive Search (includes church records) at Yandex; index & images British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages at Findmypast; index & images ($) Perm Oblast Church Records; index & images Deaths 1721-1939: Russia, Tatarstan Church Books at FamilySearch; images only 1722-1918: Russia, Tver Church Books at FamilySearch; index & images 1748-1934: Russia, Samara Church Books at FamilySearch; index & images 1768-1939: Russia, Simbirsk Church Books at FamilySearch; images only 1815-1917: Russia, Deaths and Burials at FamilySearch; index only; Also at MyHeritage ($); Also at Ancestry ($); Also at Findmypast ($) 1833-1885: Russia, Lutheran Church Book Duplicates at FamilySearch; index & images; Also at Ancestry ($) 1869-1917: Russia, Samara Church Books at MyHeritage; index & images ($) Archive Search (includes church records) at Yandex; index & images British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials at Findmypast; index & images ($) Perm Oblast Church Records; index & images Divorce Cemetery Records Russia, Cemetery Records at MyHeritage; index Russian and Ukrainian Cemetery Databases at Lost Russian and Ukrainian Families Russian Cemetery Database at Ckorbim Russian Memorials at Find a Grave; index & images Census 1728-1913: Russia, Tver Confession Lists at FamilySearch; images only 1775-1932: Russia, Tatarstan Confession Lists at FamilySearch; images only Archive Search (includes census) at Yandex; index & images Church Records 1721-1939: Russia, Tatarstan Church Books at FamilySearch; images only 1722-1918: Russia, Tver Church Books at FamilySearch; index & images 1748-1934: Russia, Samara Church Books at FamilySearch; index & images 1768-1939: Russia, Simbirsk Church Books at FamilySearch; images only 1833-1885: Russia, Lutheran Church Book Duplicates at FamilySearch; index & images; Also at Ancestry ($) 1869-1917: Russia, Samara Church Books at MyHeritage; index & images ($) Perm Oblast Church Records; index & images

Directories Archive Search (includes directories) at Yandex; index & images Immigration Records 1550-1850 Scots in Poland, Russia and the Baltic States at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1834-1897: Russians To America at Findmypast; index only ($); Also at MyHeritage ($) 1890-1960 Immigration & Travel at Findmypast; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Russia 1898-1922 Immigrants from the Russian Empire, at Library and Archives Canada; index only; includes those with Destination of Canada 1899-2012 US Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia at FamilySearch; index & images 1919 Russian Refugees at Malta Family History 1941-1943 Leningrad Evacuation Database at Archives of St. Petersburg; index only 1946-1971 Africa, Asia and Europe, Passenger Lists of Displaced Persons at Ancestry; index & images ($) Jewish Records 1853-1854: Jewish Religious Personnel in the Russian Empire at JewishGen; index only JewishGen Communities Database, Russia at JewishGen; index only Jewish Russian Database at Jewish Roots; index only Military 1914-1918: Russian Soldiers who died in WW1; index & images (In Russian) 1914-1918: Russia Prisoners of the First World War at ICRC Historical Archives; index only 1914-1918: Russian Soldiers of WW1; index only 1915-1950: Soviet Union, Soldier Memorials at MyHeritage; index only ($) 1923-1982: Memorial Books for Russian Soldiers who died in Wars; index only 1939-1945: Memory of the People List of WWII veterans for russia; index & images (In Russian) 1939-1945: Russian Prisoners of War Database; index only 1941-1944: Memory Book of the Leningrad Blockade; index & images (In Russia) 1941-1945: Russian soldiers during WWII at Memopuan; index only 1941-1945: Russian Soldiers of the Great War at Pobediteli; index only Russian Soldiers in the Australian Imperial Force at Russian Anzacs; index only Newspapers Newspaper Archives Online: Russian Newspapers at NewsLink; index only Nobility Russian Nobility Database at Petergen; index only Periodicals PERiodical Source Index at Allen County Public Library; index Political Victims 1936-1938: OpenList Victims of Soviet Union repression; index & images (In Russian) 1936-1938: Stalin ListsLists of executed people; index & images (In Russian) 1936-1938: List of Political Terror Victims; index only (In Russian) National database of repressed of Ukraine at National Bank of the Repressed; index only Tax Records 1719-1859: Russia, Tatarstan Poll Tax Census (Revision Lists) at FamilySearch; images only 1744-1874: Russia, Tver Poll Tax Census (Revision lists) at FamilySearch; images only 1758-1895: Russia, Tula Poll Tax Census (Revision Lists) at FamilySearch; images only 1782-1858: Russia, Nizhni Novgorod Poll Tax Census (Revision Lists) at FamilySearch; images only 1782-1858: Russia, Simbirsk Poll Tax Census (Revision Lists) at FamilySearch; images only Archive Search (includes tax records) at Yandex; index & images Voting Records 1906-1907: Russia, Duma Voter Lists at Ancestry; index only ($)

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