Russia, Lutheran Church Book Duplicates - FamilySearch Historical Records

= Russia, St. Petersburg Lutheran Church Book Duplicates =

Collection Time Period:
This collection covers the early duplicates, 1833–1885. The later material is located in the Central State Historical Archive, St. Petersburg.

Collection History:
The Lutheran Diocese of St. Petersburg was created in 1833. It covered mostly ethnically German congregations but included Swedes and others of the Lutheran religion. Each year a duplicate record was sent to St. Petersburg and kept in the Consistory Court.

The books pertain to the German Lutheran population along the northwestern, western, and southern edges of the Russian Empire, primarily in the historical provinces of Sankt-Peterburg (Ingria), Volhynia, Bessarabia, and Novorossiysk.

Why This Collection Was Created:
The duplicate served as the civil vital record when there was no civil registration system conducted by the government.

Collection Reliability:
This is the most reliable record for birth, baptism, marriage, death, and burial dates.

Collection Description:
The records consist of bound volumes with entries on two facing pages for births and baptisms and for burials and deaths. Marriages are on a single page. The images were from scanned from microfilm copies of the originals, which are housed in the Russian State Historical Archive, St. Petersburg.

How to Use the Collection:
Use the duplicates to uniquely identify individuals and to determine parentage. Compile families from the entries for a single couple.

Collection Content:

 * Key genealogical facts found in all duplicates are:
 * For births and baptisms, the date of the events, the child’s name, the parents’ names and residence, and the father’s occupation. They also contain the godparents’ names and residences (the godparents may be relatives).
 * For deaths and burials, the date of the events, the name of the deceased, sometimes the mother’s maiden name, the birthplace, sometimes the birth date, age at death, gender, and marital status.
 * For marriages, the date of the event and the couple’s names and residence.

Bibliographic Information:
Evangelische Kirche. Konsistorium Petersburg (Rußland). "Kirchenbuchduplikat, 1833–1885." Russian State Historical Archive, St. Petersburg, Russia. 135 microfilm rolls: FHL 1792290, 1882493, 1882594, 1882634–53, 1883181–93, 1884064–129, 1895610–29, 1897588–97, 1897691–95. FHL Digital at: search.labs.familysearch.org, "St. Petersburg Lutheran Church Book duplicates."