Czarist Era Records
The
JewishGen Belarus Database
is a multiple-database search containing more than 800,000
entries from Belarus which incorporates the following databases:
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Empire, 1853-1854, Revision Lists
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The Belarus SIG also sponsors
District Research Groups to locate additional records and raise funds
for translation and indexing. The information on the
Borisov District Research group is here.
Recently (Summer, 2017) the 1858 revision list (census) for Borisov has
been translated and indexed, but will not be added to the (free) JewishGen
Belarus Database for another year. In the interim, researchers can access this
information by donating at least $100 towards paying the cost of the translation
and indexing effort. Click
here for further details. They have
an index that shows all the family names in the 1858 revision list so you
can know whether your family is included before donating.
1906 Borisov Uyezd (district) Duma (parliament) Voters List The list
is only partially transcribed. One had to be a tax-paying male over 24 years old in order
to qualify for the list which was published at the time in the provincial
newspaper. A
scan of the full list in Cyrillic is
available (thank you, Adam
Brown).
Miriam Weiner's Routes to
Roots website lists a number of archival sources from Borisov that have not
yet been translated and indexed. In addition, Miriam Weiner has made some
translated and indexed Belarussian records available on JewishGen. Click
here to search that
database.
The list of the
richest merchants in Belarus, 1913, includes three Jewish Borisovers:
Ber Solomonov - owner
of the Victoria Match Factory in Borisov. There is a picture post card of the
factory on the images page of this KehilaLink
Neukh and Beniamin
Gutman - owners of a lumber mill and distillery
Shimon, Aron and
Iosif Gorlin - in the lumber trade
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