Ukrajina, Duplicitní záznamy církevních knih Kijeva, 1723–1931

What is in This Collection?

This collection includes the years 1734-1930. The Church acted as both a religious and civil agent in recording vital events and church sacraments such as baptism and burial. Peter the Great mandated the keeping of Russian Orthodox books in 1722. The format was standardized in 1724. Printed forms were introduced in 1806. In 1838 a format was introduced that prevailed until the 1930s. The priests made a transcript for the ecclesiastical court (dukhovnaia konsistoriia) having jurisdiction over the parish. This is usually the version that has been preserved. The register covers 70% for early periods, 90% after 1800. The registers are in Russian.

The orthodox parishes of the Kyiv Consistory covers the area now in the districts (oblasts) of Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsya, and Cherkasy.

Church registers were kept by parish priests in order to record births/baptisms, marriages, and deaths/burials. These were considered an official record and are normally very reliable. The collection consists of an index entries of baptisms/births, marriages, and burials/deaths for Orthodox parishes in Diocese of Kiev. The records are duplicates created by priests for civil authorities. The records are preserved in the Central Historical Archive of Ukraine in Kyiv. The place names reflect the jurisdiction when the records were created.

For a list of records by localities, document type and dates currently published in this collection, select the Browse. For additional details about these records and help using them see Ukraine, Church Records - FamilySearch Historical Records.

Additional records and/or images may be added to this collection in the future.

Reading These Records

These records are written in Ukranian. For help reading them see:

• Ukraine Languages
• Russian Genealogical Word List
• Russia Handwriting

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What Can These Records Tell Me?

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