Estonia Population Registers - FamilySearch Historical Records

Title in the Language of the Record
This section of the article is incomplete. You can help FamilySearch Wiki by supplying the title in Estonian, Russian, and/or German here.

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 / Percent deferral / Total
 * Remaining debt
 * Retired
 * Comments

How to Use the Record
This section of the article is incomplete. You can help FamilySearch Wiki by supplying this information as you search the different records.

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 from: Harju, Lääne, Lääne-Viru, Saare, Tartu and Valga. Records were created at the local level and later archived in the National Archive.

Why the 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

Related Wiki Articles

 * Estonia
 * Estonia Websites

Citing FamilySearch Historical Collections
When you copy information from a record, you should 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. A suggested format for keeping track of records that you have searched is found in the Wiki Article: How to Cite FamilySearch Collections.

Examples of Source Citations for a Record in This Collection

 * "Delaware Marriage Records," index and images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org: accessed 4 March 2011), entry for William Anderson and Elizabeth Baynard Henry, married 23 November 1913; citing marriage certificate no. 859; FHL microfilm 2,025,063; Delaware Bureau of Archives and Records Management, Dover.
 * “El Salvador Civil Registration,” index and images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org: accessed 21 March 2011), entry for Jose Maria Antonio del Carmen, born 9 April 1880; citing La Libertad, San Juan Opico, Nacimientos 1879-1893, image 50; Ministerio Archivo Civil de la Alcaldia Municipal de San Salvador.

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

Detailed instructions for adding citations are also listed in the wiki article: How to Create Source Citations for FamilySearch Historical Records Collections.