Belarus Archives and Libraries

Archives
National Archives of Belarus Belarus has gathered most genealogical sources into two federal archives located in Minsk and Grodno.

National Historical Archive of Belarus (NIAB) st. Kropotkina, 55, 220002, Minsk, Belarus Phones: ( Codes: international 375 17, within Belarus 8 017) 317 75 23; 379 76 92 E-mail: niab@niab.by Website Facebook You Tube In Russian

National Historical Archive of Belarus in Grodno st. Gospodarchaya, 21 230005, Grodno, Belarus Telephone: 8-0152-41-76-52 E-mail: niab@niab.grodno.by Website

Genealogy Finding Aid Parish Records Finding Aid
 * The Metrics site has a finding aid available for Russian Orthodox metrical (parish registers) books. It is organized by gubernia (province) and then by uyezd (county/district).
 * Paid subscribers to Radzima can see metrical books available (fond, opis, delo, and respective archive) for various parishes.

Search Engine of Surnames
 * Instructions/Help
 * To get a list of settlements in which a certain surname is recorded, on the start page, enter the entire surname or part of it in the Belarusian language into the search window, and select the "Surnames" option in the panel below the window.
 * "In the worst case, a person can only know the surname of his ancestors, without any idea in which area they lived. Through the "Help" you can find out in which settlements certain surnames existed at the end of the 19th - the first half of the 20th century. The main source was the lists printed in the historical-documentary chronicles of the cities and districts of Belarus of the "Memory" series. The search system contains information from the lists of participants in the Great Patriotic War and civilians who died during it, as well as from the lists of victims of political repressions of the 1930s-1950s. These lists do not include all, but the vast majority of surnames that existed at the time, with a link to the settlement (the lists of the dead Jews were not processed, as they are available on the Yad Vashem website: www.yadvashem.org). All surnames are given in Belarusian orthography."