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FHL Microfilms:
Jewish Congregation Records
in Belarus and Russia

Recent FHL Microfilm accessions by John Movius of FEEFHS

© copyright 1996, John Movius of FEEFHS
Latest Update: 1 September 1999

21 Belarus and Russian Towns with Jewish Congregation Records on Microfilm: The latest release (30 August 1996) of the Family History library Catalog (FHLC) on CD-ROM contains separate references to 21 Jewish congregations in Belarus and Russia for which some microfilm records are now available. The original records for these Jewish Congregations were all filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah (GSU) in 1993 at the Central Historical Archives of Belarus (CHAB) at Minsk.

Most but not all of these congregations were located in what is now Belarus. Reference to the record group, series and file number(s) of the CHAB are noted on each FHL Catalog entry.

10 More New Locations with Jewish Records on Microfilm In addition, FEEFHS has added to this list 10 additional Russian Empire locations (in the Tula, Tomsk and Tavrida districts) known to now have Jewish records available on microfilm. Films of these Jewish congregation records were not available to be released on the 30 August 1996 FHLC CD-ROM. However they are available now in Salt Lake City and accessable on the master FHL Computer using the location names given below. No doubt they will be included in future releases of the FHL Catalog on fiche and CD-ROM.

Abbreviations have been used to compress the listing to one line. Ii some cases only the first film is listed. While the span of years is listed, often there are gaps in records within that range of years.


FEEFHS Abbreviations:

b = birth
dv = divorce
d = death
FHL = Family History Library, Salt Lake City
FHLC = Family History Library Catalog
H = Hebrew language
m = marriage
ml = membership list
P = Polish language
r = register/index
R = Russian language
sc = some school certificates are included
slcc only = newly available, only at Salt Lake City FHLC (not yet on the FHLC CD-ROM)
tr = Jewish tax records (raskhoy [=expenditure list] and prikhody = [arrival tax])


Jewish Congregation Records Microfilm (Belarus and Russia)


Bakchisaray (Simferopol [Crimea] district): slcc only
Bet'tsy (Yassy district): slcc only
David-Gorodok (Minsk dist.): 3mf (b, m, dv, d) 1874-1904: #1794310/3 #1794311/1 #1920791/1,2, HR
Evpatoriya (Tavrida district): slcc only
Feodosiya (Tavrida district): slcc only
Gorodok (Minsk): 2mf (m, d) 1860-63, 1913: #1920792/10,11,15,18 #1920795/20 HR
Ivenets: 1mf (d) 1857: #1920794/3 HR
Kamen: 3mf (b, dv, d) 1860-1911: st #1920792/9 #1920794/10 HR
Karasubazar: (Tavrida province): slcc only
Karolin: 1 mf (b) 1860-72: #1794309/4 HR
Kerch (Tavrida province): slcc only
Koyodnov: 2mf (b, d) 1867-96: #1920794/11, #1920795/4 HR
Lakhva: 1mf (m) 1879-1915: #1920792/1 HR
Lepel (Vitebsk): 1mf (ml) 1841: #1920795/23-24 R
Minsk: 4mf (b, m, dv, d, sc) st #1920792/3,27,29 #1920793/1-5,16-19 HR
Mogoliv: 7mf (b, m, dv, d, r) 1837-1894: st#1920796 HR
Ostroshitskiy Gorodok: 3 mf (d) 1872-1917: st #1794308 PR
Pinsk: 2mf (b, d) 1882, 1922-1940: #1794309/5-7 #1794310/1-2 HR
Rakov: 4mf (b, m, dv, d) 1860-1917: st #1920792/5,14,19-20 HR
Rubezhevichi: 3mf (tr, b, d,) 1839-1912: st #1920793/7,8 HR
Samokhvalovichi: 2mf (b, d) 1859-1875: st #1920794/6 HR
Semkov-Gorodok: -- see Gorodok
Senno (Mogilev): 1mf (b) 1861-1864: #1920795/25-29 HR
Simferopol (Travida province): slcc only
Stolin (Pinsk): 1mf (b) 1911: #1794309/3 HR
Stolptsy: 1mf (b, d) 1860-1864: #1920792/7-8,13,16-17,23 HR
Tomsk (Tomsk): slcc only
Tula (Tula district): slcc only
Yalta (Tavrida province): slcc only
Zaslavl: 1mf (d) 1856-1857: #1920794/2,5 HR
Zembin (Borisov Rabbinate): 1mf (m) 1905: 1794309/2 R


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