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{{Block indent|To get a list of settlements in which a certain surname is recorded, on the start page, enter the entire surname or part of it in the Belarusian language into the search window, and select the "Surnames" option in the panel below the window.|2}}

{{Block indent|"In the worst case, a person can only know the surname of his ancestors, without any idea in which area they lived. Through the "Help" you can find out in which settlements certain surnames existed at the end of the 19th - the first half of the 20th century. The main source was the lists printed in the historical-documentary chronicles of the cities and districts of Belarus of the "Memory" series. The search system contains information from the lists of participants in the Great Patriotic War and civilians who died during it, as well as from the lists of victims of political repressions of the 1930s-1950s. These lists do not include all, but the vast majority of surnames that existed at the time, with a link to the settlement (the lists of the dead Jews were not processed, as they are available on the Yad Vashem website: www.yadvashem.org). All surnames are given in Belarusian orthography."<ref>"Search engine 'Help'", Archives of Belarus, https://archives.gov.by/home/genealogiya/poshukavaya-sistema-dapamozhnik, accessed 11 November 2020.</ref>|2}}

{{Block indent|Within this page entitled "Bodies of archiving and office work and the system of state archival institutions", scroll to the list of links to zones. Click on the link to the zone where your ancestors lived. Within the page for each zone, click on "Characteristics of funds" to see descriptions of the record collections held in that archive.|2}}

{{Block indent|The leading Museum of the historic profile of the Republic of Belarus is the biggest collection of the monuments of material and spiritual culture of the Belarusian people from the ancient times to modern day.|2}}