[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] St Petersburg records

[Richard Stein]

I will try to answer some of your questions.  Others will be able to provide 
additional information.

A second copy of Evangelical (Lutheran) parish register books was sent each 
year to the Consistory office in St. Petersburg.  LDS photographed these 
books to the end of 1885 and made them available on microfilms.  These 
microfilms were indexed and made available as a searchable index on the 
Odessa website http://www.odessa3.org/search.html  SGGEE has the 
Volhynia-only portion of the Odessa index on its website - tab Members Only, 
tab Genealogy Databases, tab St. Petersburg Consistory.  In addition, SGGEE 
indexed the Kiev and Podolia microfilms and added them to the St. Petersburg 
data.  Finally, SGGEE is also currently indexing post-1885 records for 
Rozyszcze parish (western Volhynia) from the archive in Warsaw and adding 
that to the mix.

In summary, the SGGEE St. Petersburg Consistory database contains BMD data 
for all of Volhynia, Kiev, and Podolia to 1885 (with some years missing) 
plus Rozyszcze parish for some post-1885 years.

Originally, Zhitomir parish covered all of Volhynia.  In 1862, the western 
part was split off to form Rozyszcze parish.  In 1870 another part of the 
original Zhitomir parish was split off to form Heimtal parish in the center 
of Volhynia.  In 1891 the western portion of Rozyszcze parish was split off 
to form Wladimir-Wolynsk parish.   The first 4 or 5 years of Wladimir 
records are available on microfilms.

Dick Stein

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Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 11:22 AM
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] St Petersburg records


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>
> With all the talk abt the St. Petersburg records lately I feel as though I 
> may be missing out on a resource.  I feel ignorant however in knowing what 
> area these records cover.  I looked at the Familysearch site and wasn't 
> familiar with the Kries names listed.  I looked at the SGGEE site, and 
> unless I am missing an explaination contained there, did not see what area 
> the records cover.  Is there a website that I can go to that shows a map 
> or some how explains better what is included in these records.  I have 
> ancestors from the Volhynia area, but also from all across Germany and 
> present day Poland.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Gail
>
>
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