Volhynia, Kiev and Podolia Parishes

The original Volhynia portion of this database is hosted on the Odessa3 web site. SGGEE has undertaken to make corrections and to add new data from the original Rozyszcze Parish records. These changes are in progress. In addition, completed Kiev and Podolia parish extractions are now included in this SGGEE database.

SGGEE Members - Please consider the advantage of using the Members Only search page where you can do partial name searches such as searching for "chu" in the middle of a name. The advanced search feature is not available on this page.

You can also search the Birth and Marriage databases.

 

Great News! The original St. Petersburg records can now be viewed on line! Use the index below to find your ancestor and then go to see and print off a copy of the original. To see the originals, go to the LDS Labs site, Europe Research Page. Scroll down to Russia and click on "Russia Lutheran Church Book Duplicates 1833-1885" The scroll window shows all the locations available on these St. Pete records.  Scroll down to the bottom and click on your parish of choice. (Volyn = Volhynia; Podol'e = Podolia) Note that you cannot find the record using the old microfilm numbering system. To find it, take careful note of the year and page number. Use that to find your way through the originals.

 

Search Criteria

1. "Normal Search" is the default. It will find all occurrences of any given sequence of letters in a given search field. Thus, whether the sequence is a complete name or only a portion of a name, no matter where you seek the sequence, it will be found. For instance, if you type in [ jaeger ], you will find entries that include, "Jaeger, "Lobenjaeger", and "Geiger or Jaeger".

2. "Exact Match" will only find entries that include the exact letter sequence entered, and will not return any entry with additional spaces or other characters in the field searched.

3. There are no umlauts in the database (dotted vowels). Most of the umlauted letters have been replaced with ae, oe, or ue, but there are some names where the umlauted letter was changed to simply a, o, or u. You need, therefore, to do a search for both spellings of the name (ie., search for Konig as well as Koenig, etc.).

4. You do not need to enter data in all search boxes to find data. In fact, the more data you enter into the search fields, the fewer will be the results that will be returned. It is therefore possible that you will eliminate the data you seek if you narrow the search too much.

 

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NOTES: You do not need to fill in every blank. You only need to type in the beginning part of a name or word for the search engine to find results (Advanced searches allow the search for the part anywhere in the word). Typing part of a word will return all of the derivatives; searching for the character “A” will return any word where the beginning letter is “A” .