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''[[Europe]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Belarus Genealogy|Belarus]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] Belarus Church Records'' | ''[[Europe]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Belarus Genealogy|Belarus]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] Belarus Church Records'' | ||
< | Research use: Uniquely identify individuals and connections of those in one generation to the next. Transcripts are difficult to research because generally all parishes in a district are filed together for each year. Consequently, a researcher must refer to many volumes to identify the entries for a single parish. | ||
Record type: Church records kept by parish priests of births/baptisms, marriages, and deaths/burials. The term is also used to refer to the records of denominations that had jurisdictions other than parishes. | |||
General: The Church acted as both a religious and civil agent in recording vital events and church sacraments such as baptism and burial. Peter the Great mandated the keeping of Orthodox books in 1722. The format was standardized in 1724. Printed forms were introduced in 1806. In 1838 a format was introduced that prevailed until 1920 when civil registration began. The priest made a transcript for the ecclesiastical court (dukhovnaia konsistoriia) having jurisdiction. Jewish transcripts were filed with the local town council (gorodskaia duma). Old Believer and Baptist transcripts were sent to the provincial administration (gubernskoe upravlenie). The distinction between the original and the transcript is often ignored by Belarusian record keepers. | |||
Time period: Orthodox, 1722; Greek Catholic, 1796; Roman Catholic, 1613 (transcripts begin in 1826); Evangelical/other Protestant, 1641(transcripts begin in 1833); Moslem, 1828; Jews, 1835; Old Believers, 1874; Baptists, 1879–all to about 1930. | |||
Contents: Names of the person and other family members, residence, relationships, dates and place of birth and baptism, marriage, death and burial. Baptisms include names of godparents; marriages include the ages of the bride and groom; burials include the age of the deceased and cause of death. | |||
Location: Central state historical archives in Minsk and Grodno, the regional archive of Brest, civil registration offices. | |||
Population coverage: 70% coverage for early periods, 90% from about 1830 through the destruction of most churches in the 1930s, 50% among minority religions and dissident groups such as Old Believers and Baptists.<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> | |||
== Original Records == | |||
Aside from the records already available through FamilySearch.org, there are also Belarus church and synagogue records listed in several archives. | |||
'''Jewish Shtetl Information''': | '''Jewish Shtetl Information''': | ||
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Translate using Google (or other online) translator* | Translate using Google (or other online) translator* | ||
== FamilySearch.org == | |||
I found that the best way to look for records on FamilySearch is to search using the 'place' name (name of town where parish church is/was located is a good place to start). | I found that the best way to look for records on FamilySearch is to search using the 'place' name (name of town where parish church is/was located is a good place to start). | ||
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== Finding Historical Church Records == | |||
==== Roman Catholic Church ==== | ==== Roman Catholic Church ==== | ||
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[http://kami.net.pl/kresy/ Greek Catholic Church Information] | [http://kami.net.pl/kresy/ Greek Catholic Church Information] | ||
===== | ===== Lutheran Church ===== | ||
[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~polwgw/lutheran.html Poland's Lutheran Dioceses] | [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~polwgw/lutheran.html Poland's Lutheran Dioceses] | ||
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[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~polwgw/lutheran.html][[User:Janenowak|Janenowak]] 00:34, 3 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
== References == | |||
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[[Category:Belarus]] [[Category:Countries_in_Europe]] | [[Category:Belarus]] [[Category:Countries_in_Europe]] | ||