Ukraine Church Records

Vast holdings of church records for Ukraine are preserved in archives today. The church records are primarily from 1721 to 1917. Contrary to popular belief, church records were not systematically destroyed in the former Soviet Union, but they were centralized and preserved in government archives.

Many Christian churches existed in Ukraine for which records exist today, including Russian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic (Uniate), Lutheran, Mennonite, and some others. (For information about non-Christian records in Ukraine see Ukraine Jewish Research and Ukraine Muslim Records.)

Church records for many areas have been microfilmed by FamilySearch and some have been digitized. Many other web sites have also published indexes of church records. See below for links to selected online resources for church records and church records indexes. For information about microfilm records available from FamilySearch, search by place in the FamilySearch Catalog.

Online Church Records

 * 1840 – 1896 at FamilySearch — index and images
 * Grossliebental -1833-1885 BMD's from the St. Petersburg Lutheran Evangelical Archives
 * Some Greek Orthodox and and Roman Catholic Church records are online at: Genealogy of Halychyna.
 * Ukraine Jewish records.

FamilySearch Historical Record Collections
FamilySearch has begun publishing online collections of church record images and indexes for Ukraine. For a list of available collections, see FamilySearch Historical Record Collections for Ukraine.