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| '''Location:''' Central state historical archives in Minsk and Grodno. Population coverage: 10% (see preservation note). Because this is a voluminous record type, '''many have been discarded'''. The standard rule was to retain only 2% but in some cases more were preserved. Consequently, these exist for only a small percentage of parishes. The records are well preserved in good facilities. The records were little used during twentieth century.<ref name="profile" /> | | '''Location:''' Central state historical archives in Minsk and Grodno. Population coverage: 10% (see preservation note). Because this is a voluminous record type, '''many have been discarded'''. The standard rule was to retain only 2% but in some cases more were preserved. Consequently, these exist for only a small percentage of parishes. The records are well preserved in good facilities. The records were little used during twentieth century.<ref name="profile" /> |
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| ==Records in National Archives==
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| '''National Historical Archive of Belarus in Minsk''' provides [http://niab.by/arhiv/uslugi/ '''Research Services for Fees.''']<br><br>rom the [http://archives.gov.by/home/genealogiya '''"Genealogy"'''] page of the National Archives of Belarus: "The Belarusian archives store a large number of documents that can be used in genealogical research, are of interest for the restoration of pedigrees (metric books, revision tales, accounting documents of various departments, classes, nationalities, etc.).
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| Mostly these documents are in the [http://archives.gov.by/home/organy-arhivnogo-dela-i-deloproizvodstva-i-sistema-gosudarstvennyh-arhivnyh-uchrezhdenij/respublikanskie-arhivnye-uchrezhdeniya/gosudarstvennoe-uchrezhdenie-naczionalnyj-istoricheskij-arhiv-belarusi-niab '''National Historical Archive of Belarus in Minsk'''] (on the territory of the former Minsk, Mogilev, Vitebsk and partially Grodno provinces of the Russian Empire) and in the [http://archives.gov.by/home/organy-arhivnogo-dela-i-deloproizvodstva-i-sistema-gosudarstvennyh-arhivnyh-uchrezhdenij/respublikanskie-arhivnye-uchrezhdeniya/gosudarstvennoe-uchrezhdenie-naczionalnyj-istoricheskij-arhiv-belarusi-v-g-grodno-niab-v-g-grodno '''National Historical Archive of Belarus in Grodno'''] (mainly on the territory of the Grodno and partially Vilna provinces )
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| Genealogy materials are also available in the archives of civil registration authorities ([https://minjust.gov.by/territorial/ '''civil registry offices''']) Information on genealogy requests can be found on the website of the National Historical Archive of Belarus in Minsk on the [http://niab.by/arhiv/uslugi/ '''Services'''] page and in the National Historical Archive of Belarus in Grodno, whose [http://archives.gov.by/home/organy-arhivnogo-dela-i-deloproizvodstva-i-sistema-gosudarstvennyh-arhivnyh-uchrezhdenij/respublikanskie-arhivnye-uchrezhdeniya/gosudarstvennoe-uchrezhdenie-naczionalnyj-istoricheskij-arhiv-belarusi-v-g-grodno-niab-v-g-grodno '''contact information'''] is available on our website.
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| Currently, the site provides information regarding [http://archives.gov.by/home/organy-arhivnogo-dela-i-deloproizvodstva-i-sistema-gosudarstvennyh-arhivnyh-uchrezhdenij/respublikanskie-arhivnye-uchrezhdeniya/gosudarstvennoe-uchrezhdenie-naczionalnyj-istoricheskij-arhiv-belarusi-v-g-grodno-niab-v-g-grodno '''metric books (church registers)'''], revision tales, documents on the genealogy of the nobility, documents of the genealogical nature of state regional archives.<ref>"Genealogy", National Archives of Belarus, http://archives.gov.by/home/genealogiya, accessed 17 April 2020.</ref>
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| *[http://archives.gov.by/home/genealogiya/metricheskie-knigi/metricheskie-knigi-pravoslavnyh-i-uniatskih-greko-katolicheskih-czerkvej '''List of Metric books (church registers) of Orthodox and Uniate (Greek Catholic) churches'''] National Historical Archive of Belarus in Minsk
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| *[http://archives.gov.by/home/genealogiya/metricheskie-knigi/metricheskie-knigi-katolicheskih-kostelov '''List of Metric books (church registers) of Catholic churches'''] National Historical Archive of Belarus in Minsk
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