Belarus Genealogy

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Getting started with Belarus research
After seven decades as a constituent republic of the USSR, Belarus attained its independence in 1991. It has retained closer political and economic ties to Russia than any of the other former Soviet republics. Belarus and Russia signed a treaty on a two-state union on 8 December 1999 envisioning greater political and economic integration. Although Belarus agreed to a framework to carry out the accord, serious implementation has yet to take place. Since his election in July 1994 as the country's first president, Alexandr LUKASHENKO has steadily consolidated his power through authoritarian means. Government restrictions on freedom of speech and the press, peaceful assembly, and religion continue.

For more information go to: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bo.html#Intro

Research Tools

 * Hamburg Passenger Lists Wiki article
 * Germans from Russia Wiki article

Genealogy/Family History Archives of Belarus http://archives.gov.by/eng/index.php?id=12

Skorowidz miejscowości rzeczypospolitej polskiej. A gazetteer of Poland between WWI and II, which included the western portion of Belarus (2 volumes). 1934. (FHL book 943.8 E5sm; films 2037057-8.) Index of locallities of the Polish Republic. This gazetteer is arranged alphabetically in Polish. Jurisdictional information is given in columns. The parishes are listed in the last column.


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