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==Before 1920: Church Records== | ==Before 1920: Church Records== | ||
Once you verify at least the region, and hopefully the exact town and parish, where your ancestors lived, you are ready to search church records, known as parish registers or metrical books (metriki). For instructions and links to records, you will now use the Wiki article '''[[Ukraine Church Records]]''' | Once you verify at least the region, and hopefully the exact town and parish, where your ancestors lived, you are ready to search church records, known as parish registers or metrical books (metriki). The baptism, marriage, and burial records kept by churches are the major source of family information before 1920 when civil registration started.<br> | ||
<br>For instructions and links to records, you will now use the Wiki article '''[[Ukraine Church Records]]'''. | |||
==Since 1920: Civil Registration== | ==Since 1920: Civil Registration== | ||