Estonia Population Registers - FamilySearch Historical Records

Foreign Language Title
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Collection Time Period
This collection of a variety of records covers the period between 1918 and 1944.

Record Description
These are records made after the Russian Revolution through the end of World War II includes of taxpayers, citizens, Jews, Germans, and prisoners of war. They include records such as inhabitant records and tax censuses. The text of the records could be written in German, Estonian, or Russian.

Record Content
Key genealogical facts found in population registers may include the following:


 * Number in consecutive order
 * Registration date: month/day
 * Family name
 * Date of birth
 * Citizenship
 * Marital status
 * Occupation
 * Document that confirms where person lives
 * Reports on the performance of military duties
 * Origination place and date (year/month/day/where from)
 * Residence (village, farm, mansion, town and house)
 * Destination date and place
 * Comments

Key genealogical facts found in tax censuses may include the following:


 * Number in consecutive order
 * Tax payer (family first and last name)
 * Birth year
 * Residence place
 * Male
 * Female
 * Paid: Debt/Tax/Total
 * Payment
 * Receipt #
 * Paid: Debt/Tax/% deferral/Total
 * Remaining debt
 * Retired
 * Comments

How to Use This Collection of Records
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Record History
The National Archive of Estonia is the center of archival administration in Estonia and a government agency in the domain of the State Chancellery, which includes Estonian Historical Archives, Estonian State Archives, Estonian Film Archives, and 6 regional Archives: Harju, Lääne, Lääne-Viru, Saare, Tartu and Valga. Records were created at the local level and later archived in the National Archive.

Why This Record Was Created
Each of these records was created for a good reason, most of them to keep a record of the people in that period of time.

Record Reliability
Most of these types of records are used as a secondary source, when records for ancestors cannot be found in civil or church records.

Related Websites
The National Archives of Estonia

Estonian Historical Archive

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Related Wiki Articles
Estonia Estonia Websites

Citing FamilySearch Historical Collections
When you copy information from a record, you should also list where you found the information. This will help you or others to find the record again. It is also good to keep track of records where you did not find information, including the names of the people you looked for in the records.

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Examples of Source Citations for a Record in This Collection

 * United States. Bureau of the Census. 12th census, 1900, digital images, from FamilySearch Internet (www.familysearch.org: September 29, 2006), Arizona Territory, Maricopa, Township 1, East Gila, Salt River Base and Meridian; sheet 9B, line 71.
 * Mexico, Distrito Federal, Catholic Church Records, 1886-1933, digital images, from FamilySearch Internet (www.familysearch.org: April 22, 2010), Baptism of Adolfo Fernandez Jimenez, 1 Feb. 1910, San Pedro Apóstol, Cuahimalpa, Distrito Federal, Mexico, film number 0227023.

Sources of Information for This Collection
Estonia. Family and Population Lists, 1918-1944. National Archive of Estonia (Rahvusarhiiv), Tartu, Estonia.

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