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Church records are excellent sources for accurate names, dates, and places of births, marriages, and deaths. Many people who lived in Russia were recorded in church records. | Church records are excellent sources for accurate names, dates, and places of births, marriages, and deaths. Many people who lived in Russia were recorded in church records. | ||
{{Tip|A common idea in the West is that metrical books (Russian parish registers) were destroyed by the Soviet regime in its campaign against religion. On the contrary, Soviet archives preserved them. Cut off by political circumstance, or unresponsive to genealogical inquires, these sources remained untouched for most of the twentieth century.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Russia,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1996-2001.</ref>}} | |||
Records of births, marriages, and deaths are commonly called “vital records” because they record critical events in a person’s life. Church records are vital records made by church officials. They are often called parish registers or churchbooks (''Metricheskaja kniga'', plural - ''Metricheskie knigi'', ''Метрические книги'' in Russian). Church books were started in Russia in 1720s. They consisted usually of 3 parts: a) births and christening; b) marriages; c) deaths and burials. Most remarkable was, that in the marriage part, like in the christening part, witnesses were mentioned, two from each side of the family. | Records of births, marriages, and deaths are commonly called “vital records” because they record critical events in a person’s life. Church records are vital records made by church officials. They are often called parish registers or churchbooks (''Metricheskaja kniga'', plural - ''Metricheskie knigi'', ''Метрические книги'' in Russian). Church books were started in Russia in 1720s. They consisted usually of 3 parts: a) births and christening; b) marriages; c) deaths and burials. Most remarkable was, that in the marriage part, like in the christening part, witnesses were mentioned, two from each side of the family. | ||
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*[[Russia, Tver Province Orthodox Confession Lists (FamilySearch Historical Records)|Russia, Tver Province Orthodox Confession Lists (FamilySearch Histaorical Records)]] | *[[Russia, Tver Province Orthodox Confession Lists (FamilySearch Historical Records)|Russia, Tver Province Orthodox Confession Lists (FamilySearch Histaorical Records)]] | ||
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[[Category:Russia_Church_Records]] [[Category:Church_Records_by_Country]] | [[Category:Russia_Church_Records]] [[Category:Church_Records_by_Country]] | ||