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== '''Provinces''' == | == '''Provinces''' == | ||
In addition provinces [guberniias] have been reorganized, changed names and boundaries, and local place-names have changed. You may need to determine previous boundaries and jurisdictions to locate your ancestors' records. German-speaking people tended to give German language names to places they settled even when Russian names for those places already existed. Gazetteers and histories are helpful sources of information about a these changes. The following list describes the location of selected guberniias. | In addition provinces [''guberniias''] have been reorganized, changed names and boundaries, and local place-names have changed. You may need to determine previous boundaries and jurisdictions to locate your ancestors' records. German-speaking people tended to give German language names to places they settled even when Russian names for those places already existed. Gazetteers and histories are helpful sources of information about a these changes. The following list describes the location of selected guberniias. | ||
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'''''Yekaterinoslav''''' [Jekaterinoslav, Dnepropetrovsk] Province and city on the Dnepr River about 400 km north of the Black Sea. In the St. Petersburg Consistory. <!-- Tidy found serious XHTML errors --> | '''''Yekaterinoslav''''' [Jekaterinoslav, Dnepropetrovsk] Province and city on the Dnepr River about 400 km north of the Black Sea. In the St. Petersburg Consistory. <!-- Tidy found serious XHTML errors --> | ||
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== '''German-Speaking Settlement Groups in Eastern Europe''' == | == '''German-Speaking Settlement Groups in Eastern Europe''' == | ||