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Bulgarian is a southern Slavic tongue and is written in the Cyrillic script. Records were kept in Bulgarian, Turkish, Greek, and Old Church Slavonic. A good genealogy site is [https://www.worldgenweb.net/bulgaria/ BulgariaGenWeb Project]. | Bulgarian is a southern Slavic tongue and is written in the Cyrillic script. Records were kept in Bulgarian, Turkish, Greek, and Old Church Slavonic. A good genealogy site is [https://www.worldgenweb.net/bulgaria/ BulgariaGenWeb Project]. | ||
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'''Determine the religion of an ancestor.''' Until the 1900s, vital records were kept by church parishes or Jewish congregations. The records of different religions were kept separately. If you are not sure of your ancestor's religion, start by searching Orthodox or Roman-Catholic records. Not every village in Bulgaria had its own parish. Often, several smaller villages belonged to one parish. Use [[Bulgaria Gazetteers|gazetteer]] to determine the proper record keeping jurisdiction. | |||
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