Records

• Research Tools
  Use these research tools to help you translate Russian vital records. See examples of columnar Russian birth and death records.

Records Available Through the LDS Library

• Records for Chernigov Guberniya
  A guide to the types of records for Chernigov that are held at the LDS Library.
   
• Census and Taxation Records
  Based on the content of the original bibliographic records, this page organizes selected Chernigov taxation records by location (uyezd), by date, and by film number.
  
  
• Records organized by uezds of Chernigov guberniya
  These include links to Jewish records in 15 uezds.
   
• Vital Records
  Based on the content of the original bibliographic record, this page organizes the records by town, by date, and by type the records for births, marriages, deaths and divorces in the Jewish communities of Chernigov guberniya.
  

Records available on this site

• Index to Jewish Marriages Recorded in the City of Chernigov 1877, 1879, 1882, 1883, 1885, 1886, and 1895 created by Herbert Lazerow
   
• Surnames of people buried in the Glukhov cemetery
   
• Tombstone photos from a cemetery in the city of Chernigov along with names, dates and relationships
   
• Novogorod Seversk uyesd residents (under construction)
  

Records available on the internet

On the web site Bringing Ancestors Home, many old records have been described and some have been indexed. Click keywords on the home page. Useful links include Chernigov gubernia, Poltava gubernia, Birth records, Death records, Jewish, Jews.

(To translate the pages from Russian, try http://translate.google.com/ or use Google Chrome as your browser, for it will translate automatically.)

• Cherkassy Jewish community draftee family list for 1885 draft (42 family names)
• List of illegally settled Jews in rural areas of Kozelets district (Chernigov gubernia) 1906 (73 family names)
• List of Jews living in villages of Glukhov district 1903-1904 (9 family names)
• Names of people buried in the Glukhov Cemetery
  Instructions: After logging in to JewishGen, click on the line above. Then change the drop down menu from surname to "town" and then on the right side, select "sounds like" and then type "Glukhov". For the geographical area select Chernigov and 325 names and dates of death can be accessed. (The first 150 or so entries do not include a surname.)
• Chernigov Oblast cemeteries and their condition 
  Information provided as part of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) International Jewish Cemetery Project

updated May 2012