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Websites for Tobolsk Genealogy
Archive of the city of Tobolsk in the Tyumen region "To help a genealogist" - an index of documents containing genealogical and biographical information stored in the Tobolsk State Archives.

This archival inventory contains information about types of documents held in the Tyumen archive and lists the fond, opis, and delo (archival call numbers) of records for specific locations.

http://www.okorneva.ru/arhiv-g-tobolska-v-tyumenskoy-oblasti/

The forum at VGD can be a great place to ask questions and read through previous posts to learn more about research in Tobolsk gubernia. The following pages on VGD may be of use to you:

Fonds of the Tyumen Archive: lists of records at the Tyumen archive. May be of use to you while you are trying to locate records for your location in the archive.

https://forum.vgd.ru/499/32080/0.htm

Be sure to look for a page for the uyezd, volost, okrug, town, etc. that your ancestor lived in. Area specific pages can be a treasure trove of information and can be a good way to connect with researchers researching in your area - some of which could be potential cousins!

Metrical Records
Metrical books or metrical records (Russian: Метрические книги) are records of birth, marriage, and death kept by church or religious officials. In 1722, Peter the Great mandated the recording of births, marriages, and deaths by the Russian Orthodox Church. Catholics were required to start keeping records in 1826, Lutherans in 1832, Jews in 1835, Old Believers in 1874, and Baptists in 1879. Records may have been kept by the parish or community prior to this point. Records were kept until the time of the Russian Revolution when the responsibility of keeping records changed from religious denominations to the state in the form of civil registration. In some cases, metrical books were continued privately by religious groups well into the 1920s.

The records required to be kept generally consisted of three parts: 1) births and christening; 2) marriages; 3) deaths and burials. There was no standard form for Orthodox metrical records until 1779, when the first form was established. Another format was established in 1837. Other denominations typically

Normally, two copies were made, and one (a transcript) was sent annually to a central ecclesiastical or civil office. The transcript is the copy most likely to have survived. Parish registers, on the other hand, consisted of forms filled out annually, filed, and then bound into books. Over time they were filed in any order imaginable. There are gaps in the years indicating that some materials may have been lost or misplaced. Often, the records of churches in an uyezd (district) for a single year are bound in the same volume.

Russian Orthodox Records
Russian Orthodoxy was one of the predominant religions in the Tobolsk Gubernia. Metrical records can begin as early as the 1720s, but generally records have been preserved for only the late 1700s and on. You may encounter gaps in record coverage Russian Orthodox records consist of both metrical books (birth, marriage, and death) and confession lists. Confession lists are registers of Orthodox parishioners taken each year at Easter confession. They include information for households such as surnames, children's names, ages, and relationships. Read below for more information about how to access these records.

Digital Copies of Russian Orthodox Metrical Records through FamilySearch
Digital images of Russian Orthodox metrical records for [blank] uyezdi of the Tobolsk Gubernia are available online. Records may be available for your ancestor's parish, or they may be included in an uyezd wide collection of metrical records. You should check both places for records. Follow the instructions below for more information.

How to Locate Parish Records
1. Go to https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog

2. In the Place box, type in the name of the parish. Or, click here and use the places within feature.


 * 1) Click on Places within Russia, Tobol'sk.
 * 2) From the list that appears, select the uyezd that your ancestor lived in.
 * 3) Next, click on Places within Russia, Tobol'sk, [Uyezd].
 * 4) Browse the list to locate the name of your ancestor's parish.

3. Once you have located your parish, look for heading entitled Church Records. Titles will likely be in Russian. Use the list of translations below to assist you:


 * Метрические книги : [name] церковь = Metrical books : [name] church
 * Исповедные ведомости : [name] церковь = Confession lists: [name] church
 * Православная церковь = Russian Orthodox

4. Once you have located your desired record, click on it.

5. This will take you to the catalog entry page for your desired record. Scroll down to the Film/Digital Notes section. Locate the type of record and time frame you are in need of. Titles will likely be in Russian. Use the list of translations below to assist you:


 * рождения = births




 * бракосочетания = marriages
 * смерти = death

You may encounter notes that have a set of numbers and Cyrillic letters like this, Ф. [#], о. [#], д. [#]. These are the fond, opis, and delo numbers and are similar to a call number to help locate the record in an archive.

How to Locate Uyezd Records
In some cases, records may be organized by the uyezd/district, and then within the films, by parish. To locate the metrical records available for each uyezd, follow the steps below.


 * 1) Click on the uyezd that your ancestor lived in:


 * Berezov (Березов)
 * Ishim (Ишим)
 * Kurgan (Курган)
 * Omsk (Омск)
 * Tara (Тарa)
 * Tobolsk (Тобольск)
 * Turinsk (Туринск)
 * Tyumen (Тюмень)
 * Yalutorovsk (Ялуторовскск)

2. Find the time frame you are looking for by looking the Film/Digital Notes column. At the beginning of item or film numbers, you may be able to find a table of contents of parishes included in that church book. Otherwise look for beginnings of new sections in the film.



There are Old believer records for Yalturovsk, also some police ones? Not sure what that means.

Police things for Tyumen too

Confession lists for Yaltorovsk and Ishim and Tara and Turinsk and Tobolsk and Tyumen

Old believer for Ishim and Tyumen

There are Roman Catholic records for Omsk.

Surgut, no uyezd level ones, but some at the parish level.

Tiukalinsk no uyezd level ones.

Civil Registration Records
Beginning in 1722, records of birth, marriage, and death were performed by churches of various confessions, synagogues, or mosques. However, at the time of the Russian Revolution, the responsibility of recording vital events shifted from the church to the state. On December 18, 1917 the Council of People's Commissars decreed that citizens must register births, marriages, and deaths at the city, at a city, district or volost civil registration office. At that time, many metrical books kept by churches and other religious organizations were sent to their respective civil registration offices. These offices are called Органы записи актов гражданского состояния (Bodies of Registration of Acts of Civil Status). They are also commonly referred to using the abbreviation ЗАГС, or ZAGS.

Records prior to 1926 have been transferred to the State Archives of the Tyumen Oblast. Records post 1926 are still contained in the civil registration office.



To locate contact information for a ZAGS office in what is now the Tyumen Oblast, see https://zags.admtyumen.ru/OIGV/zags/about/telephone.htm. Scroll to the section with red hyperlinks and choose the civil registration office for the rayon or okrug (district), or city that your ancestor lived in. Each hyperlink takes you to a page with information about that particular ZAGS office, including contact information such as physical address, telephone number, hours of operation, and/or email address. Keep in mind any communications with the ZAGS office will likely need to be done in Russian, and you may need to provide proof of your relationship to the person whose record you are trying to locate.

Europeana - 19th-20th centuries

 * Europeana contains nearly 30,000 Estonian newspaper records from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (the site also contains newspaper records from various European archives). The digital copies were scanned from originals at the National Library of Estonia. The newspapers are not indexed, but you can search for newspapers from a specific time period.

DIAGR Estonian Articles

 * DIAGR Estonian Articles provides access to several thousand newspapers, journals, and serials. In addition to Estonian, many of the digital newspapers available here are written in German and Russian. The collection also includes Estonian American newspapers.


 * SAAGA - free, online records (need to make an account but it's free) - contains newspapers from 16th to 20th century
 * Online Newspapers - extensive list of free digitized newspapers mainly covering 1888-1946