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==Family lists / local censuses==
==Family Lists / Local Censuses==


Research use: Excellent source for identifying family groups.  Due to the difficulty in using metrical books, the family lists provides the most information for the least amount of effort.
Research use: Excellent source for identifying family groups.  Due to the difficulty in using metrical books, the family lists provides the most information for the least amount of effort.
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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"/>
==All-Russian Empire Census==
Research use: Identify family groups and give extensive personal information.  Identify location of birth as well as residence, leading to other research sources.
Record type: Population enumeration primarily for statistical purposes.
General: The only general census in Imperial Russia was conducted in the middle of winter, January 28, 1897, when the population was least mobile.  It was undertaken by the Central Census Bureau, subordinate to the Central Statistical Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Russian Empire.  Two copies were created, one kept locally and the other sent into the Ministry.  The Ministry copy was eventually destroyed.  A second census was anticipated in 1914 but World War I intervened.
Time period: 1897.
Contents: There is a separate list for each household.  The first page of each enumeration form notes state (guberniia), county (uezd), district (volost), village, name of head of household, number of dwellings, number of souls found on day census was taken (divided by sex), number living there permanently, how many people are there who are not peasants, those who live there but are not official residents, and signature of person who compiled the form.  On the following pages is listed:  name; note if blind, deaf, mute, or insane; relationship to head of family and head of household; age; marital status; social rank; birthplace; where registered; residence; note if person is absent at the time of the census; native tongue; literacy; place of study or graduation; main profession; additional profession; military status.
Location: State archives.
Population coverage: 10% (see preservation note).
Reliability: High.<ref name="profile"/>
==Revision Lists==
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