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=='''Old Believer Church Records'''== | =='''Old Believer Church Records'''== | ||
===Writing for Records=== | ===Writing for Records=== | ||
*[ '''Google Maps search results for | *[ '''Google Maps search results for Old Believer churches in Russia'''] | ||
Dissenters from Orthodoxy who refused to accept alterations of religious rituals and prayers. Civilian registration of birth and marriage by police mandated in 1874 for those who were born into Old Believer families. One copy was made and kept in the provincial administration - ''gubernskoye pravleniye''. | Dissenters from Orthodoxy who refused to accept alterations of religious rituals and prayers. Civilian registration of birth and marriage by police mandated in 1874 for those who were born into Old Believer families. One copy was made and kept in the provincial administration - ''gubernskoye pravleniye''. | ||
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