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Websites for Tobolsk Genealogy
Archive of the city of Tobolsk in the Tyumen region "To help a genealogist" - an index of documents containing genealogical and biographical information stored in the Tobolsk State Archives.

This archival inventory contains information about types of documents held in the Tyumen archive and lists the fond, opis, and delo (archival call numbers) of records for specific locations.

http://www.okorneva.ru/arhiv-g-tobolska-v-tyumenskoy-oblasti/

The forum at VGD can be a great place to ask questions and read through previous posts to learn more about research in Tobolsk gubernia. The following pages on VGD may be of use to you:

Fonds of the Tyumen Archive: lists of records at the Tyumen archive. May be of use to you while you are trying to locate records for your location in the archive.

https://forum.vgd.ru/499/32080/0.htm

Be sure to look for a page for the uyezd, volost, okrug, town, etc. that your ancestor lived in. Area specific pages can be a treasure trove of information and can be a good way to connect with researchers researching in your area - some of which could be potential cousins!

Metrical Records
Metrical books or metrical records (Russian: Метрические книги) are records of birth, marriage, and death kept by church or religious officials. In 1722, Peter the Great mandated the recording of births, marriages, and deaths by the Russian Orthodox Church. Catholics were required to start keeping records in 1826, Lutherans in 1832, Jews in 1835, Old Believers in 1874, and Baptists in 1879. Records may have been kept by the parish or community prior to this point. Records were kept until the time of the Russian Revolution when the responsibility of keeping records changed from religious denominations to the state in the form of civil registration. In some cases, metrical books were continued privately by religious groups well into the 1920s.

The records required to be kept generally consisted of three parts: 1) births and christening; 2) marriages; 3) deaths and burials. There was no standard form for Orthodox metrical records until 1779, when the first form was established. Another format was established in 1837. Other denominations typically

Normally, two copies were made, and one (a transcript) was sent annually to a central ecclesiastical or civil office. The transcript is the copy most likely to have survived. Parish registers, on the other hand, consisted of forms filled out annually, filed, and then bound into books. Over time they were filed in any order imaginable. There are gaps in the years indicating that some materials may have been lost or misplaced. Often, the records of churches in an uyezd (district) for a single year are bound in the same volume.

Russian Orthodox Records
Russian Orthodoxy was one of the predominant religions in the Tobolsk Gubernia. Metrical records can begin as early as the 1720s, but generally records have been preserved for only the late 1700s and on. Russian Orthodox records consist of both metrical books (birth, marriage, and death) and confession lists. Read below for more information about how to access these records.

Digital Copies Russian Orthodox Metrical Records through FamilySearch
Digital images of Russian Orthodox metrical records for [blank] uyezdi of the Tobolsk Gubernia are available online. To access these records, follow the instructions below:


 * 1) Click on the uyezd your ancestor lived in:


 * Berezov Uyezd (Березов) - contains records for the uyezd of Berezov

Europeana - 19th-20th centuries

 * Europeana contains nearly 30,000 Estonian newspaper records from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (the site also contains newspaper records from various European archives). The digital copies were scanned from originals at the National Library of Estonia. The newspapers are not indexed, but you can search for newspapers from a specific time period.

DIAGR Estonian Articles

 * DIAGR Estonian Articles provides access to several thousand newspapers, journals, and serials. In addition to Estonian, many of the digital newspapers available here are written in German and Russian. The collection also includes Estonian American newspapers.


 * SAAGA - free, online records (need to make an account but it's free) - contains newspapers from 16th to 20th century
 * Online Newspapers - extensive list of free digitized newspapers mainly covering 1888-1946