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== Revision lists == | == Revision lists == | ||
Research use: Excellent source for identifying family groups. | Research use: Excellent source for identifying family groups. Due to the difficulty in using metrical books, the revision list provides the most information for the least amount of effort. The original returns are bound in volumes that are sometimes three to four feet thick, making them very difficult to handle except on microfilm. | ||
Record type: Population enumeration for the purpose of assessing a poll tax and identifying those for conscription into the military. | Record type: Population enumeration for the purpose of assessing a poll tax and identifying those for conscription into the military. | ||
General: Ten official revisions were conducted in the Russian Empire through 1859. | General: Ten official revisions were conducted in the Russian Empire through 1859. Enumeration began in Estonia, after it was annexed by that empire, with the fourth (1782-1787), and continued with the fifth revision (1795-1808), sixth (1811), seventh (1815-1825), eighth (1833-1835), ninth (1850-1852) and tenth (1857-1859). There are some earlier revisions for portions of Livland that came under Russian rule at the beginning of the 18th century and were incorporated into Estonia. One copy was kept in the county treasury (uezdnoe kaznacheistvo) and the other was sent to the provincial fiscal chamber (gubernskaiia kazennaia palata). Separate lists were kept for the different social classes such as merchants (kupechestvo), townspeople (meshchane) and peasants (krestiane). Revision lists (skazski) are filed and bound by districts and large cities. | ||
Time period: 1782-1859. | Time period: 1782-1859. | ||
Contents: Revision number of household, name, parentage, age, age at time of previous revision, sex, nationality, social rank, relationship to household head, and change of status since the last revision of all those in the household. | Contents: Revision number of household, name, parentage, age, age at time of previous revision, sex, nationality, social rank, relationship to household head, and change of status since the last revision of all those in the household. Females were not recorded in the sixth revision. The fifth revision included information on the parentage of the females but this was dropped as of the sixth revision. Sometimes the lists are accompanied by supporting documentation. | ||
Location: State Historical Archive in Tartu. | |||
Percentage in Family History Library: 100%. | |||
Population coverage: 75% coverage. This record was not compiled for non-taxed classes: the nobility, high officials, clergy, military, and foreigners. Also, many people evaded enumeration. | |||
Reliability: They are not completely reliable because of efforts to evade taxation or conscription by avoiding correct enumeration.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Estonia,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1994-2002.</ref> | |||
== Family lists / local censuses | |||
Research use: Value the same as a revision list. | |||
Record type: Population enumerations were conducted after the revisions for the purpose of assessing a poll tax and identifying those for conscription into the military. | |||
General: The term supplemental revision lists was used in some areas when referring to family lists. Extensive runs of these records exist for each place in Estonia. The local copy of the 1897 imperial census is interfiled with them. | |||
Time period: 1860-1920. | |||
Contents: Head of household, family members, ages; other details vary. (See the All-empire Russian census for a content description of the 1897 census). | |||
Location: State Historical Archive in Tartu. | Location: State Historical Archive in Tartu. | ||
Population coverage: 90% coverage. | |||
Population coverage: | |||
Reliability: They are not completely reliable because of efforts to evade taxation or conscription by avoiding correct enumeration.<ref name="profile" | Reliability: They are not completely reliable because of efforts to evade taxation or conscription by avoiding correct enumeration.<ref name="profile"/> | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
[[Category:Estonia]] | [[Category:Estonia]] | ||
Revision as of 18:59, 2 June 2015
Revision lists[edit | edit source]
Research use: Excellent source for identifying family groups. Due to the difficulty in using metrical books, the revision list provides the most information for the least amount of effort. The original returns are bound in volumes that are sometimes three to four feet thick, making them very difficult to handle except on microfilm.
Record type: Population enumeration for the purpose of assessing a poll tax and identifying those for conscription into the military.
General: Ten official revisions were conducted in the Russian Empire through 1859. Enumeration began in Estonia, after it was annexed by that empire, with the fourth (1782-1787), and continued with the fifth revision (1795-1808), sixth (1811), seventh (1815-1825), eighth (1833-1835), ninth (1850-1852) and tenth (1857-1859). There are some earlier revisions for portions of Livland that came under Russian rule at the beginning of the 18th century and were incorporated into Estonia. One copy was kept in the county treasury (uezdnoe kaznacheistvo) and the other was sent to the provincial fiscal chamber (gubernskaiia kazennaia palata). Separate lists were kept for the different social classes such as merchants (kupechestvo), townspeople (meshchane) and peasants (krestiane). Revision lists (skazski) are filed and bound by districts and large cities.
Time period: 1782-1859.
Contents: Revision number of household, name, parentage, age, age at time of previous revision, sex, nationality, social rank, relationship to household head, and change of status since the last revision of all those in the household. Females were not recorded in the sixth revision. The fifth revision included information on the parentage of the females but this was dropped as of the sixth revision. Sometimes the lists are accompanied by supporting documentation.
Location: State Historical Archive in Tartu.
Percentage in Family History Library: 100%.
Population coverage: 75% coverage. This record was not compiled for non-taxed classes: the nobility, high officials, clergy, military, and foreigners. Also, many people evaded enumeration.
Reliability: They are not completely reliable because of efforts to evade taxation or conscription by avoiding correct enumeration.[1]
== Family lists / local censuses
Research use: Value the same as a revision list.
Record type: Population enumerations were conducted after the revisions for the purpose of assessing a poll tax and identifying those for conscription into the military.
General: The term supplemental revision lists was used in some areas when referring to family lists. Extensive runs of these records exist for each place in Estonia. The local copy of the 1897 imperial census is interfiled with them.
Time period: 1860-1920.
Contents: Head of household, family members, ages; other details vary. (See the All-empire Russian census for a content description of the 1897 census).
Location: State Historical Archive in Tartu.
Population coverage: 90% coverage.
Reliability: They are not completely reliable because of efforts to evade taxation or conscription by avoiding correct enumeration.[1]