Belarus Jewish Records: Difference between revisions

:e. Some combination of these icons will appear at the far right of the listing for the record. The magnifying glass indicates that the record is indexed. Clicking on the magnifying glass will take you to the index. Clicking on the camera will take you to an online digital copy of the records. A camera with a key on top means the record is viewable but with certain restrictions that may mean the record can only be viewed at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, a Family History Center, or FamilySearch Affiliate Library. Take a look at the [https://www.familysearch.org/help/fhcenters/locations/ '''Family History Center Finder'''] to discover a location near you.

====Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation====

The [https://www.rtrfoundation.org/index.shtml '''Routes to Roots'''] site contains articles, essays, maps, archivist insights, and an archival inventory for Jewish research in Ukraine and other Eastern European countries. The website also contains a database of record inventories that is searchable by town. The search for documents in Eastern European ancestral towns is complicated, partly because of the destruction of documents during the Holocaust and changing borders and names. Only the first few letters of the town needs to be known, as all towns beginning with those letters will appear in the list. Some towns will even be cross-referenced with spelling variations or name changes. However, to determine the current spelling of a town, consult the [https://www.jewishgen.org/communities/loctown.asp '''JewishGen Gazetteer'''] or ''Where Once We Walked'' by Mokotoff and Sack. The database will note the types of documents that has survived for that town, including army lists, Jewish vital records, family lists, census records, voter and tax lists, immigration documents, Holocaust material, school records, occupational lists, and more. The span of years covered by these documents and where to find them will also be provided. Records in the archives can be accessed on various websites or databases (such as [https://www.jewishgen.org/ '''JewishGen''']) in person at the archives, by writing to the archives directly, or by hiring a professional researcher to do the work.

*See [http://www.rtrfoundation.org/ '''Routes to Roots Foundation'''] and '''hover over Belarus''' for a Genealogical and Family History guide to Jewish and civil records in Eastern Europe

==Cemeteries==

*'''[https://iajgscemetery.org/eastern-europe/belarus/ International Jewish Cemetery Project]''' - includes information about Jewish cemeteries in Belarus.

*'''[http://www.graves.by/ Indexing Historic Graves in Belarus]''' - a growing index of historic tombstones located in Belarus. There are several ongoing projects in Jewish cemeteries.

==Holocaust==