National historical archive of Byelorussia in

DOCUMENTARY RESOURCES

FOR THE STUDY OF TOWNS IN GRODNO GUBERNIYA

Vol. 6 of the Klarsfeld series: Documents Concerning the Murder of 29,000 Jews of Grodno by the Germans; 1941-1942. Ghetto and Deportations to Death Camps Cologne and Bielefeld Trails, Gathering Point before Transportation to Concentration Camps of Kelbasin, Treblinka and Auschwitz. Published in May 1989 by Jews from the town of Grodno, who survived the German occupation of 1941-1944 containing:

verbatim translation of German record of The Court of Justice in Cologne in 1968 of two Gestapo officers in Grodno: Kurt Wiese (commander of Ghetto No. 1) and his superior, Heinz Errelis, commander of the two ghettos and the Kelbsin Camp.
excerpts from the Judgment by the Court of Justice in Bielefeld in 1967 of Gestapo officers in Bialystok uezd, primarily on death camp transports.
Apendices: published by the Beate Klarsfeld Foundation that provide a key to the original specific testimony in German

USHMM: US HOLOCAUST MUSEUM MICROFILM RECORDS FOR GRODNO:
Aaron T. Kornblum,
Reference Archivist, Archives Branch,
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Archives Branch,
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, DC, 20024.
Tel: 202 488 6113. Fax: 202 479 9726.
Email: akornblum@ushmm.org.
website for more information: https://www.ushmm.org/

RG53.004M Grodno Oblast Archive records, 1940-1944 [microform]. mss. Selected Records from the Grodno Oblast Archive (mss.) 99 pages, seven rolls of microfilm. ($210.00).
RG10.052* 01 Records relating to the Chaleff family of Grodno, Poland mss. 31 pages. ($9.30).
RG02.029 Nina Kaleska papers mss. 17 pages. ($5.10).
RG22.001* 01 Records relating to the Soviet Union under Nazi Occupation, 19411945. mss.
RG22.002M Selected records from the Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate GermanFascist Crimes Committed on Soviet Territory from the USSR, Archive of the October Revolution (mss.) [Towns in Grodno Guberniya that are described in the "Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate German Fascist Crimes Committee on Soviet Territory": Benyakoni, Berestovitskiy, Lida, Porechye, Porozovo, Radun, Rybnitsa, Sobakintsy, Sopotskin, St. Dubova, Svisloch, Vasilishki, Volkovysk, Voronovo, and Zaboslot] 220 pages ($66.00). and 99 pages ($810.00).
RG15.070M Zespol podziemie prasa konspiracyjna = underground press, 1939-1966 (bulk 1940-1945) (mss.) 99 pages. Because of an agreement the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has with the Jewish Historical Institute in Poland, which holds the original materials, the Museum Archives cannot duplicate entire rolls of this collection for researchers until the researchers first receive written permission from the JHI. After JHI's permission, the Museum Archives would be glad to duplicate microfilm rolls.
RG 53.002M The Sara Rosjanski Ross Donation Selected Records from the Belarus Central State Archives (mss.) 99 pages ($30.00).

Grodno Kahal records are in Minsk Historical Archives in Fond 2, Op. 3, Delo 699.
CONSCRIPTION INFORMATION:
"The Provincial Grodno Records" is the title of a local newspaper kept in many libraries including the Russian National Library. Title: "Grodno Provincial Records" Lists of Jews eligible for conscription, missed when the Register Books were drawn up in 1804. Family lists and the 1810 supplemental list. 126 pages
Old Russian newspapers are available through Yale University, BLITZ, the St. Petersburg Russian Historical Archives, and also are available for purchase at https://www.nross.com/ , which has been bought out by ProQuest.
Card Catalog of Jewish Newspapers and Periodicals in the Russian National Library, St. Petersburg in Hebrew & Yiddish: The holdings of Jewish newspapers and periodicals cover the period from the early 1880s to the present. They include not only periodicals published in the Russian Empire and the former Soviet Union, but also in countries such as Poland, Romania and later Israel. The card file is divided into two parts: Hebrew and Yiddish. The newspaper section contains runs of Der Veg, Folkstime, Der Roiter Stern. All of the newspapers and journals can be ordered on microfilm.

Yiddish: ca. 4,200 cards, 8 mf; Hebrew: ca. 1,500 cards, 3 mf Complete set, 11 mf, $100
Unpublished Materials for Belarus Towns in the Archives of Yad Vashem. Belarus SIG does not know the contents. That information can be obtained by sending an email to the Yad Vashem archivist.

GENERAL INFORMATION

ABOUT BELARUSSIAN ARCHIVAL SOURCES

FOR GRODNO GUBERNIYA

(Some is synthesized from translation of Grodno Archives website information)

METRIKI and REVISION LIST EXPLANATIONS

Revision lists (poll tax census) and parish register transcripts (metriki) are the two primary sources for pre-Revolutionary genealogy in Russia. In both, annual information for a particular region was bound together in a volume, regardless of the number of folios existing for a region. METRIKI or metrical books (parish registers), begin in the mid-18th century. Normally, of the two copies made, a transcript sent annually to a central ecclesiastical or civil office was the most likely to have survived the civil unrest. Jewish record keeping was mandated in 1835. Beginning in 1857, a state-paid Crown rabbi kept the registers. Of the two copies made, the official one was turned into the government.

REVIZSKIE SKAZKI (revision lists) were kept between 1719 and 1858 to support a national poll tax and enumerated 95% of the population in household groups. In 1718, Peter I ordered the poll tax to shift the taxation basis from households to individuals. An 80-kopeck annual tax was imposed on all male persons of the lower classes. Nobility, clergy, government officials, military, and the higher strata of the urban population were exempt, about ten percent of 19th century Tzarist Russia. Ninety percent of Russia's population was rural peasants. Separate volumes were kept for the different classes of society: dvorianstvo - nobility; dukhovenstvo - clergy; kupechestvo - merchant; meshchane - urban dweller; krest'iane - peasant; inorodtsy - native peoples; and kazaki - Cossacks. Each class had its own representative body, among these the Noble Assembly, the Merchants and Tradesmen Councils, and corresponding government institutions for peasant affairs. In accordance with these classes, various state and class institution records groups also were created. Jewish records are found mainly in merchants and urban dwellers. The merchant class was limited only to the most affluent. Urban dwellers included townsmen, petty bourgeois merchants, craftsmen, and workers in villages, small towns and urban areas. Each census required several years for processing.

Most Jewish records will be found in these Revision lists that form the main source for genealogical information about urban and rural inhabitants, particularly towns, settlements, and villages. The majority population recorded on these revision lists was unprivileged townsmen, petty bourgeois merchants, craftsmen, workers, and rural peasant farmers, the majority. These taxpayers population lists were compiled between 1719 and 1858, generally every ten to twenty years, in every town and district or surrounding rural area. Between censuses and after 1858, additional revisions were done in which persons skipped during the previous census were recorded. Additional lists were made from 1860-1900. These revision lists, arranged by guberniya, uezd, and smaller administrative units, are found in 500-1000 page volumes. Names of small cities, towns, and villages usually are not indicated in the volume title.

1^st Revision - 1719 (Vitebsk and Mogilev only)
2^ndRevision - 1743
3^rd Revision - 1761-1767, first to include females
4th Revision - 1778-1787, first conducted by the region fiscal chamber (kazionnaia palata), established 1775 to handle income and expenses of governmental institutions, collect taxes, and conduct revisions.
5^th revision - 1794-1808
6^th revision - 1811-1812 recording by separate "estate" (social class) began
7^th revision - 1815-1825 nobility and clergy no longer enumerated
8^th revision - 1833-1835, noted changes in families during the interim between revisions
9^th revision - 1850-1852, noted changes in families during the interim between revisions
10^th revision - 1857-1859, noted changes in families during the interim between revisions

Local population censuses in the Russian Empire after 1858 were local censuses of households in provincial towns, villages, and rural areas conducted on a random basis. Local census materials from 1867 may be found in local Statistic Committee record groups: the zemstvo, a local land administration organization, and, from the 1880s, town councils. Additionally, several special censuses of Jews were compiled separately. Jewish censuses include 1850 lists of western Belarussian districts and Jewish lists for 1875 in Vilna guberniya found in the Lithuanian Archives. Local taxpayer lists and bank client books, including petty bourgeois townsmen, also may be of use in Jewish research of Belarus.

PEREPIS 1897 (1897 All-Russia Universal Census) was Tzarist Russia's only universal census and detailed information about the householder and his family members for the first time. Conducted on January 28, mid-winter saw the least population mobility. The census tabulated the following: name, age, sex, family relationship, social class, occupation, religion, native tongue, literacy, birthplace, military status, and disabilities. A local copy kept by that commission. A copy was forwarded to the provincial census commission and sent to the Central Census Bureau in St. Petersburg. The name lists of that copy have been discarded. Only the statistical sheets have been kept. The local copy survived in some regional archives. These records in the fonds (record groups) of the 1897 Census Commission and the Guberniya Statistics Committee are the most relevant source of Jewish genealogical information, but are difficult to use. Only a small portion of these census lists was preserved in archives because the main goal of the census lists population statistical information. After processing these statistics, many of the lists were destroyed. Also, census lists, compiled according to the inhabitant's residence, have no alphabetized name index. All lists for a single town must be searched for a single name.

METRIKI: These unindexed Metrical Booksof Orthodox (70% of Belarus' population); Catholics and Jews (15-20%); and Protestants register births, marriages, divorces, and death of all inhabitants, separately by faith. Annual copies of metrical records include summary books on district territory or parts thereof, e.g. blagochinija or parish office. Historical Archives of Belarus has both separate record books and part of the summary books although the fonds are quite incomplete. Part of the metrical books for the end of the 19th and first decades of 20th centuries are temporarily stored in ZAGS archives.

Other Archival Sources

Vital Statistic Records:

All religious community vital records up to 1917 should be in state historical archives. The Russian Empire State archives were responsible for western European churches and Jewish religious communities (kahals). Without exception, the governor's office or police office in each major Pale of Settlement city preserved one copy of every Jewish vital records book. However, many community books in archives are missing or record only a few years. Some were lost during the 1918-1920 Civil War. In the 1920s, when the communists closed churches and synagogues, materials disappeared because, unfortunately, Soviet archives kept the books of many communities for only a few years and then destroyed them. ZAGS (Ministry of Justice or former KGB archives) holds a portion of the 1890-1917 books.

Military Records: The Russian State Military Historical Archives in Moscow is the only archive holding all Tzarist Army pre-1917 materials, including all staff and sub-units of land forces documents (including Cossack armies). Regiment and sub-unit are the fond divisions. To find a soldier or officer, one must know the exact name of their regiment or sub-unit. Some exceptions may be senior officers found in the General Headquarters and High Commands of departments of the service (infantry, cavalry, etc.) records. The most records exist from 1910 to 1917. The archives has very limited reference aids. The only catalogs available are card index to medical staff, alphabetical name cards of officers' service records from the second half of the nineteenth to early twentieth century. However, local archives in the record groups of the Military Draft Offices might be useful for Jewish research. Lists of draftees exist. RAGAS can conduct searches for local military records in Belarus. Poland may hold materials for the areas under their control between W.W.I and W.W.II.

Legal Records: These records contain information about property transfers, legal and commercial contracts, gifts, wills, land plots, cattle transactions, and other life events such as Court and Office of Public Prosecutor criminal and civil cases.

Local Governmental Administrative and Economic Offices: Fonds may contain information about the administration, sale, and lease of agricultural land, forests, mills, inns, and breweries and distilleries. Lists of specific populations and foreign settlers; provincial boards; city, petty-bourgeois, merchant, and craft lists; estate owners; state, provincial, and district commissions (land, lists of rural societies) may be other possible sources for Jewish research.

Offices of Governor, police, and prison inspectors. These records contain information about rebellion participants.

Educational Institutions: Information about students, teachers, schools, high schools, institutes, colleges, universities and other educational institutions may be useful resources.

Directors: City and business directories (published in most of provinces from 1850 - 1917), newspapers (obituaries, classified sections, and published notices), and cultural, business, and public organizations publications all may be additional sources.

Grodno Genealogy Source Information by Archive

Documents of the western part of modern Belarus (formerly Grodno guberniya of the Russian Empire) mainly are stored in The National Historical Archive of Belarus in Grodno. This archive mainly includes information for territory of Grodno but has some information for part of Vilna guberniya. (Most Vilna uezd information can be obtained through the Lithuanian Archives. See the home page under "Archival" for more information.) A description of the various archives in Grodno Oblast follows. When requesting research from any of these institutions, increase successful search outcome by listing:

all known persons within a family

provisional years of their birth, marriage, death
religion
residence by province, district (uezd), volost (settlement)
social class/estate or occupation (noblemen, peasants, merchants, petty bourgeoisie etc.)
possible year of emigration if relevant

Cost of genealogical research:

The price for research and services by archives of Belarus "charges and additions entered by the order of chairman Goskomarhiva 28 April 1999, ? 19 setting the research fee": For non-Belarus citizens, advance payment of US$80 dollars and final settlement at US$4 dollars/hour for research. They claim that the average cost of genealogical research comes to about US$300 dollars. No price for copies is specified, as copying still may remain illegal in Belarus archives as of April 2000.

National Historical Archive of Belarus in Grodno

Address: pl. Tizengauza 2, 230023. Grodno, Belarus

Telephone: (8-0152 44-94-66, 47-28-56

Director: Batrakova Karina Petrovna

Contents: 1200, more than 408,000 dyelo, 4,500 running meters. Scientific help includes over 11,000 books and brochures, and about 5,000 copies of periodicals.

Territorial Scope: former Grodno province [guberniya] and former Vileja, Disna, Lida, Oshmiany districts [uezds] and Vilna guberniya of the Russian Empire.

Chronological period: sixteenth century to beginning of twentieth century.

Fonds Information Useful for Jewish Research:

city and social-class self-management (city affairs, municipal dumas, uprav, Grodno provincial nobility, deputy assembly, district leaders of nobility, petty-bourgeois uprav, volost boards etc.)
Judicial establishments, Offices of Public Prosecutor and criminal and civil courts, the Grodno district court, the High notary of the Grodno district court
city and district police administrations, zemskih courts
Industrial and building establishments, rural and forestry (Grodno provincial management of agriculture, provincial and district commissions, forest areas etc.)
finance-tax, credit bodies and statistical registration (Grodno provincial state chamber, exchequers, banks)
educational institutions (management of national schools of Grodno province, grammar schools, schools)
public health services, public and charitable organizations
manors
religious records

Personal genealogical information

property descriptions contained in Fonds of self-management, finance-tax establishments, and religious faiths.
inventory descriptions of manors; data on pledge, sale, inheriting of property, personal correspondence.

Local government bodies: Grodno governor's office, Grodno provincial board, Grodno provincial statistical committee, and a collection of estate representatives. Documents of archive (especially Fonds of the Office of the Grodno provincial board) contain much information on former Grodno guberniya history.

population data and structure

Territorial administrative divisions: legal status of estates
Office of the Grodno governor, Grodno provincial and the district military contain investigative commissions on political affairs. Included are revolt of 1863-1864, operations of insurgent groups, and destiny of participants.

Economic

features of landed property and land tenure in documents of Fonds of the Grodno provincial presence on country affairs
Grodno provincial and district zemleustroitel'nyh commissions, zemskih chiefs, etc.
economic establishments: information on construction, repair of buildings and constructions, a status of the local industry, rent, sale of state manors, forests, realization of credit operations, statistical data on province contain.
public and charitable organizations contain data on the development of public health services, sanitary inspection, mass and epidemic diseases, a status of almshouses, shelters, orphaned houses.

Additional more specific information about Fonds in this archive, both for Lida uezd, Vilna guberniya and Grodno guberniya:

FOND	OPIS	DYELO	TITLE	DATE	Town	UEZD	If not other than Grodno
24	544	7- 416	1834 Conscription revision lists of tenants in Lida uezd	1795-1899		Lida	Vilna
24	544	7- 417	1834 Conscription revision lists of tenants in Lida uezd	1795-1899		Lida	Vilna
24	544	7- 418	1863 Conscription revision lists of tenants in Lida uezd	1795-1899		Lida	Vilna
24	544	7- 419	1864 Conscription revision lists of tenants in Lida uezd	1795-1899		Lida	Vilna
24	544	779	Jews who owned land according to the 10th census of Grodno Gub. (48 pages): SLONIM uezd: Aaronovo Colony/4th Kupovitzk Rural Society; Aaronovo Colony/14th Kuril Rural Society (p. 14)	1851-1864	Kupovitzk	Slonim
24	544	779	Jews who owned land according to the 10th census of Grodno Gub. (48 pages): Gudejsk Colony/ 5th Deregin Rural Society (p. 2)	1851-1864	Deregin	Slonim
24	544	779	Jews who owned land according to the 10th census of Grodno Gub. (48 pages): Sinajskaja Colony/5th Deregin Rural Society (p. 4); Sinajskaja Colony (p. 14)	1851-1864	Deregin	Slonim
24	544	779	Jews who owned land according to the 10th census of Grodno Gub. (48 pages):Voranovo Colony/6th Staroversk Rural Society (p.6),	1851-1864	Staroversk	Slonim
24	544	779	Jews who owned land according to the 10th census of Grodno Gub. (48 pages): Konstantinovo Colony/10th Rozanka Rural Society (p.7), Konstantinovo Colony/10th Rozhanka Rural Society (p. 13)	1851-1864	Rozanka	Slonim
24	544	779	Jews who owned land according to the 10th census of Grodno Gub. (48 pages): Pavlovo Colony/10th Rozhanka Rural Society (p. 7), Pavlovo Colony/10th Rozhanka Rural Society (p.10),	1851-1864	Rozanka	Slonim
24	544	779	Jews who owned land according to the 10th census of Grodno Gub. (48 pages): Galilejskaja Colony/8th ___ Rural Society (p. 14)	1851-1864	Galilei	Volkovysk
24	544	779	Jews who owned land according to the 10th census of Grodno Gub. (48 pages): Izrailevskaja Colony (p. 20)	1851-1864	Izrailev	Volkovysk
24	544	779	Revision lists of Jews as tenants during the 10th census in Volkovysk (p. 22); Lotovo Colony (p.36)	1851-1864	Lotovo	Volkovysk
24	544	779	Revision lists of Jews as tenants during the 10th census in PRUZHANY uezd: Pruzhany, Starovolsk Rural Society (p. 25)	1851-1864	Pruzhany	Pruzhany
24	544	779	Revision lists of Jews as tenants during the 10th census in BREST uezd: Avramovo Colony/1st Osmeljanetzk Rural Society (p. 31), Sarovskaja Colony/2nd Mosovitzk Rural Society (p. 33)	1851-1864	Avraamovo, Osmeljanetzk, Saravskaya	Brest
24	544	779	Revision lists of Jews as tenants during the 10th census in SOKOLKA uezd: Minovitzk Society, Palentinskaja Colony, Isakov Colony	1851-1864	Minovitzk, Palentina, Isakov	Sokolka
24	544	779	List of Jews who owned land and who existed according the "palace" list but who do not appear according to the conscription list (p. 48)	1851-1864		?
24	544	779	Revision lists of Jews as tenants during the 10th census in Volkovysk (p. 22); Galilei Colony (p. 23)	1851-1864	Galilei	Volkovysk
24	544	779	Jewish people who owned land according to the 9th census in Grodno guberniya (1850-1861) in SOKOLKA uezd: 14th Minovetzk Rural Society was Tsakovo Colony (p. 60) and Palestina Colony (p. 64). List of Jews who owned land in Grodno Gub. (p. 68-72)	1850-1851	Minovitzk, Palentina,	Sokolka
24	544	779	Jewish people who owned land according to the 9th census in Grodno guberniya (1850-1861) in SLONIM uezd: in 4th Kurilovichkago Rural Society were Abramovo colony (p.3) and Moiseevo Colony (p. 6); in 5th Derechinskogo Rural Society were Gerysalimskaja Colony (p.10), Podelskaja Colony (p. 12), Sinajskaja Colony (p. 14), Povarskaja Colony (p. 18); in 6th Starovoski Rural Society were Gordakov Colony (p. 21); in 10th Rozanka Rural Society of Volkovysk uezd were Konstantinovo Colony (p. 23), Nikolazvo Colony (p. 29), and Pavlovo Colony (p. 30); in 9th Bojarski Rural Society and 8th Rural Society were Galilej Colony (p. 36), Izrailskaja Colony (p. 41)	1850-1851	Avraamovo, Gerysalim, Gordakov, Rozanka, Konstantinovo, Nikolazvo, Pavlovo, Galilei, Izrail	Slonim
24	544	779	Jewish people who owned land according to the 9th census in Grodno guberniya (1850-1861) in KOBRIN uezd: Jakovlevo Colony of 8th Rogozy Rural Society (p. 44)	1850-1851	Jakovlevo	Kobrin
24	544	779	Jewish people who owned land according to the 9th census in Grodno guberniya (1850-1861) in BREST uezd: Abramovo Colony of 1st Osmeljanetzki Rural Society (p. 48), in the 2nd Morozovitzk Rural Society were Lotovo Colony (p. 51), Sarovskaja Colony (p. 53)	1850-1851	Abramovo, Lotovo, Sarovskaya	Brest
33	10	1--2	Metrical Book of Divorce-Synagogue in Rozhanka	1898	Rozhanka	Lida	Vilna	20
33	10	1--3	Metrical Book of Divorce?-Synagogue in Rozhanka	1899	Rozhanka	Lida	Vilna	20
33	10	1--4	Metrical Book of Divorce-Synagogue in Rozhanka	1900	Rozhanka	Lida	Vilna	20
33	10	1--1	Metrical Book of Divorce-Synagogue in Rozhanka	1897	Rozhanka	Lida	Vilna	28
33	10	1--9	Metrical Book of Marriage-Synagogue in Rozanka	1897	Rozhanka	Lida	Vilna	30
33	10	1--5	Metrical Book of Death-Synagogue in Rozhanka	1897	Rozhanka	Lida	Vilna	40
33	10	1--8	Metrical Book of Death-Synagogue in Rozhanka	1900	Rozhanka	Lida	Vilna	40
33	10	1--10	Metrical Book of Marriage-Synagogue in Rozanka	1898	Rozhanka	Lida	Vilna	40
33	10	1--6	Metrical Book of Death-Synagogue in Rozhanka	1898	Rozhanka	Lida	Vilna	70
33	10	1--7	Metrical Book of Death-Synagogue in Rozhanka	1899	Rozhanka	Lida	Vilna	70
56	9	1--5	Metrical Book of Divorce- Synagogue in Radunj	1897	Radun	Lida	Vilna	30
56	9	1--6	Metrical Book of Divorce- Synagogue in Radunj	1898	Radun	Lida	Vilna	30
56	9	1--2	Metrical Book of Death- Synagogue in Radunj	1898	Radun	Lida	Vilna	40
56	9	1--8	Metrical Book of Divorce- Synagogue in Radunj	1900	Radun	Lida	Vilna	40
56	9	1--1	Metrical Book of Death- Synagogue in Radunj	1897	Radun	Lida	Vilna	70
56	9	1--3	Metrical Book of Death- Synagogue in Radunj	1899	Radun	Lida	Vilna	70
56	9	1--4	Metrical Book of Death- Synagogue in Radunj	1900	Radun	Lida	Vilna	70
56	9	1--7	Metrical Book of Divorce- Synagogue in Radunj	1899	Radun	Lida	Vilna	70
56	9	1--10	Metrical Book of Marriage- Synagogue in Radunj	1900	Radun	Lida	Vilna	70
56	9	1--9	Metrical Book of Divorce- Synagogue in Radunj	1899	Radun	Lida	Vilna	90
79	11	1--6	Metrical Book of divorce in Zaludok Synagogue	1898	Zaludok	Lida	Vilna	20
79	11	1--7	Metrical Book of divorce in Zaludok Synagogue	1899	Zaludok	Lida	Vilna	20
79	11	1--8	Metrical Book of divorce in Zaludok Synagogue	1900	Zaludok	Lida	Vilna	20
79	11	1--5	Metrical Book of divorce in Zaludok Synagogue	1897	Zaludok	Lida	Vilna	28
79	11	1--4	Metrical Book of Marriage in Zaludok Synagogue	1900	Zaludok	Lida	Vilna	30
79	11	1--1	Metrical Book of marriage in Zaludok Synagogue	1897	Zaludok	Lida	Vilna	38
79	11	1--2	Metrical Book of marriage in Zaludok Synagogue	1898	Zaludok	Lida	Vilna	40
79	11	1--9	Metrical Book of death in Zaludok Synagogue	1897	Zaludok	Lida	Vilna	40
79	11	1--11	Metrical Book of death in Zaludok Synagogue	1899	Zaludok	Lida	Vilna	40
79	11	1--10	Metrical Book of death in Zaludok Synagogue	1898	Zaludok	Lida	Vilna	70
79	11	1--3	Metrical Book of marriage in Zaludok Synagogue	1899	Zaludok	Lida	Vilna	40
100	397	1 or 163	Russian 1897 Census lists from Grodno Census Commission in Volkovysk uezd	1896-1897	Piesk	Volkovysk
255	3	36526	Metrical Book of Divorce in Schuchin Synagogue	1897	Radun	Lida	Vilna	20
255	3	1--2	Metrical Book of Divorce in Schuchin Synagogue	1898	Scucyn	Lida	Vilna	20
255	3	1--3	Metrical Book of Divorce in Schuchin Synagogue	1899	Scucyn	Lida	Vilna	30
271	10	1--9	Metrical Book of Divorce-Synagogue in Orlja/20	1899	Orlja	Lida	Vilna
271	10	1--7	Metrical Book of Divorce-Synagogue in Orlja	1897	Orlja	Lida	Vilna	28
271	10	1--6	Metrical Book of Marriage-Synagogue in Orlja	1900	Orlja	Lida	Vilna	30
271	10	1--8	Metrical Book of Divorce-Synagogue in Orlja	1898	Orlja	Lida	Vilna	30
271	10	1--10	Metrical Book of Divorce-Synagogue in Orlja	1900	Orlja	Lida	Vilna	30
271	10	1--2	Metrical Book of death-Synagogue in Orlja	1898	Orlja	Lida	Vilna	40
271	10	1--4	Metrical Book of Death-Synagogue in Orlja	1900	Orlja	Lida	Vilna	40
271	10	1--5	Metrical Book of Marriage-Synagogue in Orlja	1899	Orlja	Lida	Vilna	40
271	10	1--3	Metrical Book of death-Synagogue in Orlja	1899	Orlja	Lida	Vilna	68
271	10	1--1	Metrical Book of death-Synagogue in Orlja	1897	Orlja	Lida	Vilna	70
272	5	1	Vasilishki Synagogue, Lida Uezd, Vilna Gub	1897-1899	Vasilishki	Lida	Vilna	5
272	5	36526	Metrical book-divorces-Vasilishki Synagogue	1897	Vasilishki	Lida	Vilna	20
272	5	36527	Metrical book-divorces-Vasilishki Synagogue	1897	Vasilishki	Lida	Vilna	30
272	5	36528	Metrical book-deaths-Vasilishki Synagogue	1897	Vasilishki	Lida	Vilna	60
272	5	36529	Metrical book-deaths-Vasilishki Synagogue	1897	Vasilishki	Lida	Vilna	70
272	5	36530	Metrical book-deaths-Vasilishki Synagogue	1897	Vasilishki	Lida	Vilna	70
286	12	36527	Metrical Book-marriage-Voronovo Synagogue	1898	Voronovo	Lida	Vilna	6
286	12	1	Voronovo Synagogue, Voronovo, Lida uezd, Vilna g.	1897-1900	Voronovo	Lida	Vilna	12
286	12	36534	Metrical Book-divorce-Voronovo Synagogue	1897	Voronovo	Lida	Vilna	20
286	12	36526	Metrical Book-marriage-Voronovo Synagogue	1897	Voronovo	Lida	Vilna	30
286	12	36529	Metrical Book-marriage-Voronovo Synagogue	1900	Voronovo	Lida	Vilna	30
286	12	36535	Metrical Book-divorce-Voronovo Synagogue	1898	Voronovo	Lida	Vilna	30
286	12	36536	Metrical Book-divorce-Voronovo Synagogue	1899	Voronovo	Lida	Vilna	30
286	12	36537	Metrical Book-divorce-Voronovo Synagogue	1900	Voronovo	Lida	Vilna	30
286	12	36528	Metrical Book-marriage-Voronovo Synagogue	1899	Voronovo	Lida	Vilna	40
286	12	36530	Metrical Book-deaths-Voronovo Synagogue	1897	Voronovo	Lida	Vilna	70
286	12	36531	Metrical Book-deaths-Voronovo Synagogue	1897	Voronovo	Lida	Vilna	70
286	12	36532	Metrical Book-deaths-Voronovo Synagogue	1899	Voronovo	Lida	Vilna	70
286	12	36533	Metrical Book-deaths-Voronovo Synagogue	1900	Voronovo	Lida	Vilna	70
290	12	1--1	Metrical Book of marriage-Synagogue in Ostrino	1897	Ostrino	Lida	Vilna	38
290	12	1--10	Metrical Book of Death-Synagogue in Ostrino	1898	Ostrino	Lida	Vilna	7
290	12	1--6	Metrical Book of Divorce-Synagogue in Ostrino	1898	Ostrino	Lida	Vilna	20
290	12	1--8	Metrical Book of Divorce-Synagogue in Ostrino	1900	Ostrino	Lida	Vilna	20
290	12	1--2	Metrical Book of marriage-Synagogue in Ostrino	1898	Ostrino	Lida	Vilna	22
290	12	1--5	Metrical Book of Divorce-Synagogue in Ostrino	1897	Ostrino	Lida	Vilna	28
290	12	1--3	Metrical Book of marriage-Synagogue in Ostrino	1899	Ostrino	Lida	Vilna	30
290	12	1--7	Metrical Book of Divorce-Synagogue in Ostrino	1899	Ostrino	Lida	Vilna	30
290	12	1--4	Metrical Book of marriage-Synagogue in Ostrino	1900	Ostrino	Lida	Vilna	40
290	12	1--9	Metrical Book of Death-Synagogue in Ostrino	1897	Ostrino	Lida	Vilna	70
290	12	1--12	Metrical Book of Death-Synagogue in Ostrino	1900	Ostrino	Lida	Vilna	70
290	12	1--11	Metrical Book of Death-Synagogue in Ostrino	1899	Ostrino	Lida	Vilna	90
290	12		? Metrical Book?		Ostrino	Lida	Vilna
361	2		Government of Schuchin Jewish Religion organization	1931	Scucyn	Grodno
1021	6	1	Grodno Guberniya Special Commission of Jewish Census	1871-1893		Grodno
1021	2482?	1--1	Reports of police about Jewish census in 1875	1875		Grodno
1021		1--2	Lists of Jews who bought papers for avoiding military conscription during 1871-2-3-4- (in Russian and Polish)	1871-1874		Grodno
1021		1--4	Jewish people who "were asking to give them"			Grodno
1021		1--5	Metrical book	1875		Grodno
1021		2	Bulletins about Jews who bought papers to avoid conscription	1871-1873		Grodno
1189	2		Jewish kahal of Orlja	1836-1846	Orlja	Lida	Vilna
1516	115	4	present for conscription in Vilna uezd	1808-1809, 1818-1819, 1824, 1827, 1828, 1829-1840		Vilna uezd	Vilna
1516	28	3	present for conscription in Vilna uezd	1844-1874		Vilna	Vilna
1548	21	2	present for conscription in Lida uezd	1844-1874		Lida	Vilna
1564	12	1	Lida town "head" foundation; documents about session	1880-1894	Lida	Lida	Vilna
1639	9		Schuchin lower-middle class government	1908-1913	Scucyn	Vilna	Vilna
1639	9	1	family list of lower-middle class in Schuchin (1908 copy)	1908-1913	Scucyn	Lida	Vilna
1639	9	36563	family list of lower-middle class in Schuchin (1908 copy)	1908-1913	Scucyn	Lida	Vilna
1639	9	8	family list of lower-middle class in Schuchin (1908 copy) or 1915	1908-1913	Scucyn	Lida	Vilna
1639	9	9	family list of lower-middle class in Schuchin (1908 copy) 1912-1913	1908-1913	Scucyn	Lida	Vilna

Other Grodno guberniya uezds with Fonds in this archives:

Bialystok uezd (now in Polish Republic)

Revision Lists in National Historical Archive of Byelorussia in Grodno

Estates Years Fond/Opis Dyelo

Citizens 1834 24/7 164

palace 1834 24/7 164

Free people 1834 24/7 166

Additional transcriptions not authorized for Jews

Jews 1874 24/7 213

Belsk uezd

Revision Lists in National Historical Archive of Byelorussia in Grodno

Estates Years Fond/Opis Dyelo

Domestic free people 1816 24/7 228, 233

Jews 1816 24/7 231

Free people 1834 24/7 238

Free people 1850 24/7 240

Additional transcriptions not authorized for Jews

Estates Years Fond/Opis Dyelo

Petty bourgeoisie 1842 24/7 239

Citizens 1842 24/7 239

Peasants - proprietors 1864 24/7 246

Petty bourgeoisie 1864 24/7 246

Petty bourgeoisie 1874 24/7 255

Brest uezd

Address: Engels 8, 224005. Brest, Byelorussia
telephone: (8-0162 26-59-29, 26-64-28

Director: Terebun' Anna Vasil'evna

Background: Much of this archive was destroyed during W.W.II. In late 1940's documents of German occupation in Brest, Pinsk and Baranovichi districts for 1941-1944 arrived. Documents are in Russian, Belarussian, German, Ukrainian, and Polish. Most materials are post 1919.

Territorial scope: Brest, Zhabinkovsky, Kamenets, Maloritsa areas; part of Novogrudskoe, Bialystok voevodstva from 1921-1939.

Materials from Polish period (1919-1939) contain data on national policy of Poland in western Byelorussia: administrative-territorial, boundaries, activity of Polish military units, economy, social and economic position of the population, culture, public health services, town-planning, politics, trade-unions, cultural - educational organizations etc, educational institutions

Nazi material: Brest, Baranovichi and Pinsk district commissariats; city, region and volost economic organizations for 1941-1944. Nazis occupation of Byelorussia, crimes against population, including genocide of Jews and ghetto. Jews' passports, statistical data on Jewish population of city etc. Brest portion of Soviet Extraordinary Commission data on Nazi crimes: victim lists.

Revision Lists in National Historical Archive of Byelorussia in Grodno

Estates Years Fond/Opis Dyelo

Free people 1795 24/7 263, 264, 266 - 276

Petty bourgeoisie 1795 24/7 263

Jews 1795 24/7 263, 264, 266 - 271, 273, 274, 276

Merchants 1811 24/7 283

Petty bourgeoisie 1811 24/7 283

Free people 1811 24/7 283 - 287

Petty bourgeoisie 1864 24/7 303

Grodno uezd

Revision Lists in National Historical Archive of Byelorussia in Grodno

Estates Years Fond/Opis Dyelo

Jews 1795 24/7 2 - 8, 10 - 18, 20

Free people 1795 24/7 6 - 9, 12 - 20

Petty bourgeoisie 1795 24/7 13

Free people 1811 24/7 26 - 29

Free people 1816 24/7 34

Free people 1834 24/7 39, 45, 50 - 52, 54 - 56

One-palaces 1834 24/7 41 - 43

Citizens 1834 24/7 44, 49

Jews 1834 24/7 47, 48, 60

Peasants 1834 24/7 57

Merchants, petty bourgeoisie - Christians, foreigners, petty bourgeoisie 1850 24/7 66

Free people 1850 24/7 69, 70, 74, 75

Free people 1858 24/7 89, 91, 93

Citizens 1858 24/7 92

One-palaces 1858 24/7 92, 96

Jews 1858 24/7 95

Kantonists 1858 24/7 96

Additional transcriptions not authorized for Jews

Estates Years Fond/Opis Dyelo

Petty bourgeoisie 1864 24/7 105

Petty bourgeoisie - Jews 1874 24/7 122, 124

One-palaces 1874 24/7 123

Lida uezd of Vilna guberniya

Revision Lists in National Historical Archive of Byelorussia in Grodno

Estates Years Fond/Opis Dyelo

One-palaces 1834 24/7 417

Lida uezd districts

Vileja district Revision Lists for given districts are In the State Historical Archive of Lithuania in Vilnius: Lietuvos Valstybinis Istorijas Archyvas
10, Gerosios Vilties, Vilnius,
232015, Lietuva

Vilna district

Disna district

Lida district

Oshmiany district

Sventjan district

Troksky district

Kobrin uezd

Revision Lists in National Historical Archive of Byelorussia in Grodno

Estates Years Fond/Opis Dyelo

Jews 1795 24/7 392?

Free people 1795 24/7 392?

Free people 1811 24/7 398 - 405

Jews 1811 24/7 399

Petty bourgeoisie, shop 1816 24/7 408

Additional transcriptions not authorized for Jews

Pruzhany uezd

Revision Lists in National Historical Archive of Byelorussia in Grodno

Estates Years Fond/Opis Dyelo

Jews 1795 24/7 265

Free people 1795 24/7 265

Jews 1811 24/7 429

Slonim uezd

Revision Lists in National Historical Archive of Byelorussia in Grodno

Estates Years Fond/Opis Dyelo

Free people 1795 24/7 456, 458, 460 - 462, 467

Foreigners 1795 24/7 458

Jews 1795 24/7 458, 459

Free people 1850 24/7 475

Jews 1850 24/7 476?

Nobility 1874 24/7 497

Additional transcriptions not authorized for Jews

Sokolka uezd (now in Polish Republic)

Revision Lists in National Historical Archive of Byelorussia in Grodno

Estates Years Fond/Opis Dyelo

Free people 1816 24/7 513

Petty bourgeoisie 1816 24/7 510

Free people 1834 24/7 519

Citizens 1834 24/7 520

One-palaces 1834 24/7 520

Jews 1850 24/7 522?

Jews - farmers 1850 24/7 522?

Additional transcriptions not authorized for Jews

Volkovysk uezd

Revision Lists in National Historical Archive of Byelorussia in Grodno

Estates Years Fond/Opis Number of unit of storage

Petty bourgeoisie 1795 24/7 320

Free people 1795 24/7 320 - 330

Foreigners 1795 24/7 320, 328

Jews 1795 24/7 320 - 325, 327 - 330

Jews, manufacturers, handicraftsmen 1811 24/7 336

One-palaces 1834 24/7 342

Jews 1850 24/7 347

Free people 1858 24/7 364, 366, 368

Jews - farmers 1858 24/7 356

One-palaces 1858 24/7 366, 367

Citizens 1858 24/7 360

Jews 1858 24/7 362, 365

Kantonists 1858 24/7 360, 368

Additional transcriptions not authorized for Jews

Estates Years Fond/Opis Dyelo

One-palaces 1864 24/7 374

Free people 1864 24/7 384

Jews 1864 24/7 384

ADDITIONAL MATERIALS AVAILABLE IN THIS ARCHIVE

(Some materials gathered from Belarus SIG information)

GRODNENSKOYE GUBERNSKOYE PRAVLENIYE (Grodno Gub. Administration)

Fond 2. 78980 Ed. Chr., 1802-1916 (Fond 2; 78,980 chronicles):

Fond 2, Opis 1.

Guiding materials
peasantry
Development of capitalism in industry, trade and agriculture
Property
debt recovery
Maneuvering, quartering troops, and military service.
Tzarist punitive policy
censorship, press, subscription to newspapers, magazines, and books
Personnel of Guberniya (provincial) institutions and military units
Enrollment and discharge
Emigration and passports
Daily life
Thefts

Fond 2. Opis 1. (Inventory) Preface

Before 1806, Board clerical work was conducted without structure. In 1806, four tables (bureaus) were established. After 1816, the Board consisted of two dispatch offices ("departments") and 4 povytiyes (tables, bureaus). The Grodno Guberniya Board was founded on 2 January 1820 with the establishment of Grodno guberniya (province) under the terms of "The Institution for Governing the Gubernii [Provinces]" of 1775. Ministry of Home Affairs, serving as administrative police of the guberniya (province) and working under the direction of a gubernator (governor), was the governing authority and executive body.

In 1837, three departments were established. After 1837, clerical work was divided into four departments; each of them with two tables (bureaus).

Functions of Departments

1^st Department records of the gubernskoye (provincial) Board. Promulgated laws and resolutions, supervised their execution, and collected information about taxation and accidents in the guberniya (province). It dealt with Board personnel questions and other uezd institutions. It supervised the persons under police surveillance. It led gentry and village elections. It was closely connected with the 3^rd department "The Private Office of His Emperor’s Majesty".
2^nd department questions of religion and public order. It supervised military units, issued passports, and administered oaths to foreign subjects wishing to live in Russia. It controlled roads, bridges, transportation, and post-offices, and public health services.
3^rd department judicial-police and investigated all municipal and zemsky [national]police department cases, and controlled the work of gentry trusteeships and orphan courts. It dealt with the cases of "not wealthy" gentry, sale of property for debts, staff premises, and controlled prisons.
4^th department collected general information about the guberniya (province): population, state of agriculture, trade, manufacturing and industry. It controlled town and village structures. It dealt with tax collection. It approved the estimates of municipal dumas and ratushas (town halls). It controlled conscription, the work of insurance companies, and other offices.

After 1 February 1845, the Board office was divided into three departments. Each department consisted of three bureaus. Attached to the Board were a treasurer, a printing-house, an archive, a Guberniya (province) architect, a land surveyor, a registry, and corporal punishment and economic-administrative bodies. Cases were divided into administrative (judicial-police) and executive. After 11 February 1867, the Medical board, the Guberniya (provincial) committee of public health, and the guberniya (provincial) «ostenny» committee joined the Board. The structure of the Board consisted of:

1^st department - the 1^st-2^nd, special and newspaper bureaus
2^nd department - the 3^rd-4^th bureaus
3^rd department - the 5^th-6^th bureaus
Building department
Medical department

Guberniya (provincial) surveying office.

In September 1915, the Board moved to Kaluga and was abolished in February 1917. In the Fond are 78,980 cases from 1802 to 1917 and 39 record units. The materials are systematized according to departments and tables (bureaus), years, then according to topic sections and subsections.

More detailed information about industry and trade is in Opis (inventory) 11, 18, 21, 23, 27, 33, 34.
Peasantry - op.1, 7, 8, 21, 24, 31, 34-36
Revolutionary movement - op. 22, 25
War of 1812, revolts of 1831, 1863 - op. 30, 34, 36
Improvement of villages, income and expenditure of the towns - op.31, 34
population, property status, election procedure of low-middle class boards and public administrative boards, maintenance of the boards, conscription and military kantonists [forced recruits], citizenship, etc. - op. 9, 11, 12, 15, 17-34, 36
personnel of Guberniya (provincial) institutions - op. 1, 3-9, 20, 24, 25
Official lists of Guberniya (provincial) institutions employees - op.37
Records of Board sessions - op. 38

NIAB (Gr) Fond 2 (Grodno gubernskoye [provincial] Board), Opis 1 (1802-1805), 333 entries

At the end are topic and non-graphic indexes.

1-5 –preface (Fond's structure)

33 - Complaint of Novopolotsk kahal about misspending of town income by the magister. 1802-1809, 73.(MCF)

39 - approval of the "korobochny" (box tax) collection to pay off Jewish kahal debts. 1802—8,695 (MCF)
54 - Complaint of mieszkancs Leibovich E and Janislevich L about seizure of their land by ks. Kanonik. 1802 (MCF)
55 - Complaint of residents of Novy Dvor shtetl about land seizure by pomestchik (landlord) Andrushkevich, I. 1802-1809. 265 (MCF)
86 - debt recovery from titular counselor Rovits in favor of Grodno resident, E. Izraileva. 1802, 4.
88, 89 - debt recovery: merchant A. Eselevich in favor of merchant A. Itskovich, from Mieszkancin A. Itskovich in favor of the resident of Grodno Trodsky. 1802-1810, 23, 8
240 - theft in a Jewish school by mieszkancs B. Kivovich and A. Movshovich. 1802-1810, 32
262 - debt recovery of 8,000 zlotys from Pinsk kahal in favor of Vilzhynsk monastery. 1803-1808, 10.

Fond 2, Opis 2 (1806-1815), 666 entries

24 - voluntary migration of Jews from one place to another. 1807-1809, 63.
69 - lists of Jews missed when the register books were drawn up in 1804. 1809-1810, 126.
70 - complaint of Earl Viljegorskij about mieszkanc Leiba Poljakovich not paying him rent. 1809, 17.
75 - petition of mieszkancs Dymer, Jankelevich, Shapiro and others about recording them in register books. 1909, 7.
77 - petition of the mieszkan Volf Aronovich about registering him as one of the mieszkancs of Lida. 1809-1810, 12.
203 - complaint of Mstibovsky kahal about the assessor of Volkovysk zemsky [national]court, Rafanovich, for illegal exaction of recruiting money from the kahal. 1809-1810, 10. /MCF/
259 - complaint of poverenny (attorney) of Ostrina Jewish community, Sh. Drazhnin, about imposing taxation on the community by proprietor Zekovich, 1814, 8 /MCF/
261 - exaction of money from the mieszkancs Sh. Izrajeliovich, A. Kushelevich and J. Beniaminovich in favor of the commission of the St. Petersburg provision depot. 1814-1824, 187.
270 - theft of goods in the sum of 4324 zlotys by soldiers from the store of mieszkan Jankelevich. 1806-1807, 13.
277 - seizure complaint about mieszkan Girsha Alkonovich's father’s estate. 1808, 4.
279 - conversion of Jew D. Notkovich to Catholicism. 1808, 5.
286 - punishment of rjadovoj (private) Jefimov for escape of the prisoner Leibovich. 1809, 11 /MCF/
304 - recording mieszkan Shim. Movshovich in register books of 1795 in Novogrudok, 1809, 7.
308 - mieszkanka Movshovich receiving 40 birch lashes for carelessness in handling fire, which caused a conflagration. 1809, 4 /MCF/
309 - petition of mieszkan Sh. Kaplun about registering him and his family as mieszkancs of Grodno. 1809, 2.
310 - complaint of mieszkan Hatskelevich about extortion of money from him by Guberniya secretary Janikutsev. 1809, 9.
313 - bail for mieszkanin Abramovich, who passed counterfeit money to mieszkan Nahimovich. 1809-1810, 16.
314 - cruel treatment of residents of shtetl Mileichizy by pomestcik (landowner) Zukerbeher during fire extinguishing. 1809, 3.
329 - imprisonment of mieszkanin Ioseliovich for buying stolen goods. 1809-1810, 4.
340 - severe reprimanding of gorodnichij of Brest for unauthorized bailing of prisoner D. Shemovich. 1809, 3.
342 - giving mieszkanin Shreiter 100 birch lashes for assisting in the illegal receipt of a cordon certificate by mieszkanin Jank. Jumovich. 1809-1810, 7 /MCF/
343 - arrest of Shim. Kislinskij, born in Galitsija, for missing passport. 1809, 4.
352 - arrest of mieszkanin Girsha Talanets for illegally crossing the frontier. 1809-1810, 5.
368 - petition of foreign subject Aron Freidlend to give him Russian citizenship and register him as one of the mieszkancs of Grodno, 1809, 10.
370 - petition of Polish subject Shl. Abeliovich, 1809-1810, 11.
385 - complaint of mieszkanin Abram Girshovich about putting him into irons after finishing work for the priest M. Vlodkovskij 1810, 3 /MCF/
405 - prosecuting mieszkancs Ios. Movshovich, Leibovich and Itskovich for transporting smuggled goods from abroad. 1810, 4.
412 - conversion from Judaism to Catholicism by the Jew L. Germanovich 1810, 8.
416 - including the Jew Iv. Bratynskij, who adopted Orthodox faith, in the mestchanskoje soslovije (petty bourgeoisie). 1810, 3.
418 - prosecuting residents of Pruzhany, M. and I. Bogdanovich, for assault and battery on mieszkanin Shtumman. 1810-1811, 7.
453 - prosecuting mieszkancs Kushelevich and Kogan for transporting smuggled goods. 1811-1812, 5.
481 - debt exaction from mieszkanin Ts. Girtsevich for concealing the recruit V. Barovich (without passport). 1814, 3.
490 - prosecuting mieszkancs J. Leibovich, I. Fishelevich, and others for stealing money from the shljahtich Pogoskij. 1814, 32.
518 - arrest for smuggling goods transported by mieszkanin Ajz. Shostakovskij. 1815, 2.
520 - debt exaction from mieszkanin Shlemovich for false denunciation of the Lida district police chief. 1815-1816, 3.
577 - adopting Catholicism by the Jew Abramovich. 1810, 7.
595 - adopting Catholicism by the Jew Shein. 1810, 4.
607 - complaint of Novogrudokmieszkancs about the gorodnichij keeping them under arrest. 1811-1812, 35.
610 - complaint of mieszkanin Mord. Daigu about seizure of his property by the Cossacks. 1811-1812, 8.
617 - complaint of Kobrinmieszkancs about extra korobochny (box tax) collection by the collector Goldfarb. 1813, 9 /MCF/
626 - accusation of mieszkanin Alper about providing the French with assistance in seizing the property of the ober-forshtmeister Gagman. 1814-1820, 44.
629 - prohibiting the merchants of Brest from participating in valuation of brick houses according to certificates given before. 1814-1824, 22.
636 - debt exaction of 8,000 rubles from the Brest merchant, Rozenmejer, in favor of the merchant Nejmark. 1814-1820, 26.
653 - complaint of Slonimmieszkancs about duties imposed on them by burgomeister Lenchevskij. 1815-1825, 222.
655 - assault and battery to mieszkanin Vigd. Leibovich by shljahtichys [peasants] Struginskys. 1815.
/ At the end is a topic index /

Fond 2. Opis 3. Dyelo 699

Guiding materials, circulars, and documents of ----- organizations - places.
Control over courts and police bodies
Peasantry
Moving and quartering troops; recruitment/conscription.
Development of economic relations
Property
Culture and lifestyle.
Personnel of the guberniya boards and military units

Ukazy (decrees) and circulars
Lists
Admittance and discharge
Awarding titles, rewards and executions [?]
Promotions.
Pensions and allowances.

Emigration
Clerical work
Archives

Fond 2 Opis 3 (1816-1845, 2446 entries)

p. 1-7 - topic index
p. 8-14 - name index

entry NN:

6 - permitting Jews to appear as witnesses in cases against Christians. 1816-1817, 69.
75 - ukase (decree) of Guberniya (provincial) Board forbidding merchants to work off debts to Jews. 15.05.-26 August 1818, 52
113 - petition of GrodnoJewish community kahal leader, Shliota, about relieving him of his post. 1819-1820, 2.
134 - fine imposed on members of Rratusha town in Brest, for not paying rent to the mieszkanka Goldberg who housed the brigade leader/commander. 1820-1821, 6.
138 - petition of Lida kahal elders about excluding 200 "non-wealthy" mieszkancs from register books before a new revision/census. 1820-1824, 4 (MCF)
158 - petition of billeting commission deputy, Leiba Vlodavskij, about relieving him of his post because of his illiteracy. 1820, 7
159 - removal of billeting commission deputy, Leiba Volfovich, from his post for abusing his position.1820-1821, 7.
228 - complaint of Merchant (3^rd guild) Litmanovich about illegal taxation of him by the Grodno kahal. 1821, 2 (MCF).
232 - complaint of deputy, Girsha Levin, about imposing Kvartirny [craftsman] billeting duty on the Jewish community by the gorodnichij (town governor) of Novogrudok. 1821-1823, 11 pages (MCF)
241 - complaint of mieszkanin Alpershyn about seizure of his property by Dominican monks. 1821, 7 (MC)
329 - kahal elections in guberniya [province]. 1822-1823, 162 pages.
393 - petition of mieszkanin Jank. Shliomovich about converting to Christianity. 1822, 2.
496 - complaint of mieszkancs of Slonim about misappropriation of taxes collected from them by burgomeister Lenchevskij. 1823-1824, 17 (MCF).
499 - petition of Grodno tradesmen, Preizig, Giderlaj and others, permitting them to manufacture silver goods. 1823, 11 (MCF).
513 - delivery to Guberniya (provincial) institutions: the ukase (decree) of the Guberniya Board permitting Jews to use Christian labor when leasing State property. 1823, 25
520 - rabbinical elections in guberniya (province). 1823-1825, 63 (MCF).
527 - assault and battery by mieszkanca Sara Mendelejeva against her niece Itke Shevahova and about her suicide. 1823, 2.
531 - assault and battery and theft of money by soldiers against mieszkancs Shm. Kalmanovich and Itske Izrajeliovich.1823, 2.
582 - lists of Jews wishing to move to Odessa guberniya [province] and reports of the zemsky [national] courts about their submission.1823-1824, 76.
601, 602 - forbidding Jews to live in precincts that are 50 versts from the frontier. 1827-1828, 19; 1827-1830, 38.
617 - ascertaining Jewish communities' expenditure for the 91^st conscription. 1828, 164 (MCF)
629 - conscripting Jewish landowners, who settled on lands of Herson guberniya [province] belonging to the State. 1829, 9.
684 - complaint of mieszkancs of shtetl Shereshevo about klutchvojt Chizhevskij imposing duties on them. 1837-1839, 27 (MCF)
689 - ascertaining taxation control by merchants and mieszkancs living on lands belonging to the State. 1837-1838, 8
699 - holding kahal elections in guberniya [province]. 1837-1838, 424.
817 - exaction of korobochny (box tax) from the Jews Chernushko, Vitkind, Jankelevich and others. 1838-1839, 16 (MCF)
821a - leasing the korobochny (box tax) collection in shtetl Malech in Pruzhany uezd. 1838-1839.
858 - permitting children of Jewish military-men to live with their fathers in places outside the Pale of Settlement. 1838-1839, 91.
893 - permitting children of Jewish military-men to live with their fathers in places outside the Pale of Settlement. (Place is not mentioned.) .1838-1839, 231.
897 - non-admission of mieszkanin Volf Shereshevskij, Shevel, and others to the elections to the Slonim uezd court. 1838-1839, 121.
1073 - delivery of the form, which was approved by the Senate, of guberniya kahal members' oaths. 1839, 9.
1077 - prohibiting Jews to live within 50 versts of the frontier. 1839-1841 (MCF)
1408 - correspondence with zemsky ispravniks [police chiefs] and gorodnichijs (town "mayor") about delivery of guberniya kahal member election data. 1837-1838, 424.
1673 - awarding gold medals to Jewish deputies Homskij, Bereshbljum, Neimark, and Dipon for assistance in building of fortshtadts in Brest. 1840-1841.
1689 - municipal posts elections of Jewish soslovije [merchants] in guberniya in 1840. (1841)
1703 - municipal posts elections of Jewish soslovije [merchants] in guberniya in 1840-1842 (MCF)
1705 - petition of mieszkanin Dav. Berkman about issuing him a certificate about not belonging to the podatnoje soslovije [peasants and merchants.] 1840.
1729 - relieving the Brest kahal from sending horses for the zemsky [national] post. 1841-1842
1744 - prohibiting Jews from settlement within precincts 50 versts of the frontier of Tsarstvo Polskoje (Poland). 1841-1844 (about the same NN2308. 1843-1844)
1791 - awarding Grodno resident, Nahimovich, the title of hereditary citizen. 1841-1842
1836 - holding elections to municipal posts from Jewish soslovije [merchants] in the guberniya. 1841-1842 (MCF)
1843 - holding elections to municipal posts from Jewish soslovije [merchants] in the guberniya. 1841-1843 (MCF)
1934 - establishment of commission to supervise Jewish educational establishments. 1842(MCF)
1935 - issuing permission to the Jew, Kolozhin, who adopted Orthodox faith. 1842.
1936 - prohibiting the Jew Morduhovich from the kerchma (inn) of the pomestchitsa (landowner) Okuhovskaja, which was situated 50 versts from the Polish frontier. 1842-1843
2330 - data about the number of the Jewish families wishing to settle on the lands belonging to the guberniya. 1844.
2334 - prohibiting the Jew Judkovich from living in the korchma (inn) of Stetska in Belskij uyezd, which was situated in 50 versts from the frontier. 1844
2344 - prohibiting the Jew Goldshtein from living in the korchma (inn) in shtetl Druskeniki. 1844-1846
2397 - prohibiting Jewish mieszkancs from entering educational establishments. 1845
2399 - conversion to Catholicism by the Jew Davidovich. 1845-1846
2400 - destroying kahals and subordinating Jews to the common/general administration/rule. 1845-1846 (MCF)

699: 1.335 Ballot List for electing candidates to kahal membership, for posts of scholar, starosta (leader) of the synagogue or prayer school, and treasurer in the Rozhansk [Ruzhany] Jewish community.

1838 Kahal Electors, Fond 2, Opis 3, Delo 1703, page 179 opposite side of page 335 and 338:

In alphabetical order by surname. Information from Minsk Genealogy Group and EEJHP

transliterated by Frank and Galina Swartz.

Numbers preceding first name indicate order of appearance on the list:

57. Gertsko Abramovich Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

70. Shmujlo Zalmanovich Alperg Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

53. Jankel Mejerovich Alperin Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

28. Abram Osherovich Alpern Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

75. Morduh Gershonovich Alpern Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

76. Mendel Dovydovich Alpern Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

54. Mejer Sroliovich At (Aps? Ans?) Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

16. Volf Ajzikovich Babich Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

43. Volf Mendeliovich Babich Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

48. Girsh Naftaliovich Babich Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

23. Jankel Volfovich Bas Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

3. Dovyd Mendeliovich Bereznitskij Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

45. Jelja Berkovich Berman Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

55. Zusel Sroliovich Berman Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

62. Orko Girshovich Berman Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

63. Abram Girshovich Berman Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

69. Shmujlo Boruhovich Bulgach Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

1. Jankel Mejerovich Epshtein Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

2. Iosel Hononovich Epshtein Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

10. Movsha Ioseliovich Epshtein Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

14. Nisel Leizerovich Epshtein Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

20. Iosel Osherovich Epshtein Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

29. Dovid Epshtein Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

71. Shmujlo Rubinovich Epshtein Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

17. Leizer Leibovich Fuksman Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

18. Haim Movshovich Fuksman Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

46. Girsh Shimonovich Fuksman Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

64. Abram Jankeliovich Fuksman Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

77. Movsha Edidovich Gelman Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

36. Dovyd Movshovich Gubar Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

38. Leiba Morduhovich Gubar Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

65. Jelja Mejerovich Gubar Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

33. Shmujlo Berkovich Haidak Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

13. Symho Ioseliovich Izralet Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

49. Abram Shanovich Jeliovich Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

74. Mejer Berkovich Jezernitsk Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

68. Sholem Leibovich Kaplinsky (z, h ?) Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

60. Abram Shmerkovich Kazak Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

67. Shimel Ovsenovich Kobran Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

73. Mejer Shimonovich Korpel (Kornel ?) Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

25. Sholem Fisheliovich Kotsyn Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

72. Morduh Abramovich Kozak Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

78. Haim Genohovich Kushner Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

42. Movsha Hatskeliovich Kuznets Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

4. Girsh Itskovich Levenbuk Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

32. Izrael Rubinovich Levitan Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

35. Liber Rubinovich Levitan Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

39. Abram Shmujlovich Levitan Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

52. Iosel Sohorovich Levitan Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

40. Orko Dovydovich Ljamets Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

61. Arija Ioseliovich Muzykant Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

24. Berko Nirshovich- Shepjatsky Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

30. Mejer Leibovich Pines Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

12. Leiba Abramovich Pitkovsky Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

22. Geshel Leizerovich Pitkovsky Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

47. Itsko Ioseliovich Pitkovsky Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

56. Jankel Haimovich Pitkovsky Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

44. Genah Shliomovich Ponchoshki Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

9. Mendel Rubinovich Prinshtein Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

6. Jankel Dovydovich Salemon Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

41. Berko Gershovich Savolsky Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

59. Girsh Movshovich Shamesh Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

37. Leiba Nohimovich Shatkhan Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

21. Leiba Zelikovich Shereshovsky Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

8. Srol Nahman Volfovich Sokolovsky Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

50. Leizer Sheimenovich Taran Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

5. Girsh Ioseliovich Zakin Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

7. Lejba Gershonovich Zakin Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

11. Abram Dovydovich Zakin Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

15. Leiba Tobijashovich Zakin Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

26. Abram Movshevich Zakin Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

27. Hiel Nohimovich Zakin Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

31. Abram Gershonovich Zakin Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

34. Jankel Gershonovich Zakin Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

51. Movsha Iokeliovich Zakin Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

58. Leizer Gershovich Zakin Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

66. Abram Leibovich Zakliaty Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338

19. Itsko Shliomovich Zlotnik Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335

Continuation of Fond 2, opis 3, entry 699

4-5 - petition of Jews of the shtetl Vjalikaja Berestovitsa about auditing the kahal accounts (elected in 1835) and permission to elect new personnel. Signatures of 27 Jews/November 30, 1837.
12-13 - name roll of candidates for posts of rabbi, kahalnys, and a deputy of billeting commission in the Lida kahal elections on 19 December 1837.
15 - name roll for post of scholar, starosta, and treasurer in Lida. Elections on 28 December 1837.
23 - balloting list of Pruzhany Jews for position of a starshina (foreman) /29 December 1837/ /48 persons/ Signatures of kahalnys.
24-25 - oath with signatures of Pruzhany electors, surnames and signatures. /29 December 1837.
26 - name candidates roll for post of starosta, treasurer, and scholar in Pruzhany kahal /29 December 1837.
31-34 - name candidates roll of Kobrin Jewish community elected to kahal membership and deputies of the billeting commission, drawn up on 21 December 1837/ Name, age, score, property in the town, post, reputation, ability to fulfil the post.
35-38 - petition of Kobrin Jews about permitting kahal elections, with signatures. 14 January 1838
58-59 - request of Grodno Jews to approve election results of a rabbi on 24 January 1838. Signatures. /February 1838
66-70 - kahal membership candidates list of Grodno Jewish community, 29 December 1837. Signatures of the electors.
67-69 - oath of electors with signatures, 29 December 1837. Balloting list for member of the prayer community attached to school in Znamensk forshtat with signatures of the Jews /26 January 1838.
73-76 - balloting list for prayer community members attached to Grodno Jewish synagogue /24 January 1838/
74-75 - balloting list for prayer community members in Bestamedresh of Grodno. 24 January 1838/
77-78 - balloting list for rabbi in Grodno Jewish community with signatures of the community members. /January 1838/
79-80 - oath of the Jews of Grodno.
81-82 - petition of the Jews of Grodno about appointing Judel Lurje for post of rabbi. /with signatures of the Jews.
100 - list of masters balloting for post of rabbi and membership in Pruzhany Jewish community and also for a deputy of billeting commission for 3-year period,1838 to 1841 /14 December 1837/ /74 persons.
108 - the same list; signatures of kahalnys - 84 persons/Pruzhany
101-102 - oath of the electors of the Pruzhany Jewish community with signatures of the Jews, rabbi, kahalnys, gorodnichij (the town "mayor"), and the strjapchij(attorney).
103-105 - name roll of candidates for posts of rabbi, kahalnys, and deputy to the billeting commission in the Pruzhany Jewish community /14^th December 1837. Surname, name, patronymic, vote, property, and behavior.
109-110 - oath of Pruzhany Jews/signatures of Russians, Jews, signed by rabbi and representatives of municipal authorities. /21 February 1838/
123-125 - ballot list for elections to membership of the Jewish communities in the shtetls of Kobrin uyezd for a period of 3 years from 01 January 1838. Shtetls: Divin, Gorodets, Antopol, Yanov, Motol, Drogichin, and Homsk.
134-139 - name/candidates roll for kahalnys and prayer members, and deputy of the billeting commission in the Volkovysk Jewish community, drawn up on 18 January 1838.
name roll of candidates for kahalnys and prayer members, and deputy of the billeting commission in the town of Novogrudok, drawn up on 13 January 1838.
143-144 - name roll of electors of the kahalnys and other officials of the Novogrudok Jewish community, drawn up on January 11, 1838.
145-146 - oath of Novogrudok electors. Signature of the rabbi.
155, 160 - oath of the electors of shtetl Berjoza; balloting list for a second rabbi and a starshina (foreman) in Berjoza Jewish community and in one prayer school; 19 January 1838/ Signatures.
161,162, 164 - lists of electors from 22 November 1837; balloting list for electing a second rabbi, scholar, starosta and treasurer in the shtetl of Malcha /drawn up on 25 January 1838/
169-170 - candidates list for kahalnys of Malcha shtetl. /25 January 1838/ Signatures.
167-171 - electors oath of kahal members in shtetl Malcha /20 January 1838/
172,179 - electors oath of kahal members in the Shereshevo Jewish community /04. 01. 1838/; list of the Jewish electors in Shereshevo Jewish community /04 January 1838/
174-176 - list of candidates for membership in Shereshevo Jewish community in schools and pre-schools.
177-178 -

request of Jewish community of shtetl Shereshovo to appoint Abram Gorfinkel to post of kvartalny (non-commissioned police officer) /4.1.1838

rabbi, starosta, treasurer, and 3-year term kahal members balloting list in Lyskovski kahal /16 January 1838
rabbi, starosta, treasurer, and 3-year term kahal members balloting list in Lopenitsk kahal /13 January 1838
rabbi, starosta, treasurer, and 3-year term kahal members balloting list in Popogovsky kahal /10 January 1838
rabbi, starosta, treasurer, and 3-year term kahal members balloting list in Mstibovsky kahal /7 January 1838
rabbi, starosta, treasurer, and 3-year term kahal members balloting list in Yalovsky and Yevrelsky kahal /4 January 1838
rabbi, starosta, treasurer, and 3-year term kahal members balloting list in Svisloch kahal /2 January 1838
rabbi, starosta, treasurer, and 3-year term kahal members balloting list in Peskovsky [Piesk] kahal /8 February 1838
rabbi, starosta, treasurer, and 3-year term kahal members balloting list in Rosky kahal /4 February 1838
rabbi, starosta, treasurer, and 3-year term kahal members balloting list in Izabelinsky kahal /29 January 1838
a rabbi, starosta, treasurer, and 3-year term kahal members balloting list in Zelvjansky kahal /25 January 1838
rabbi, starosta, treasurer, and 3-year term kahal members balloting list in Novodvorsky kahal /19 January 1838

214-215 - rabbi, starosta, treasurer, and 3-year term kahal members balloting list in Brest /4 January 1838.
216-217 - oath of electors of Brest Jewish community /4 January 1838- report about elections in Brest /4 January 1838
231,234 - oath of electors of candidates to kahal membership in shtetl Shereshevo /28.04.1838/
232-233 - list of electors and candidates of shtetl Shereshevo /28.04.1838
235-238 - oath; list of electors/candidates to kahal membership of the Sherehevsky Jewish community. May 1838
265-267 - oath of electors of Slonim Jewish community /22 March 1838/
268-271 - balloting list for rabbi, Jewish kahal membership, and deputy of billeting commission in Slonim Jewish community, 22 March 1838. Surname, name, patronymic, age, score, Pale of Settlement and annual income. Some refused to participate in elections—signed in Yiddish or Polish; after list of candidates is list of electors
278-279 - Slonim residents request addressed to Emperor Nikolai to approve new kahal personnel /29 July 1838
283-284 - request of residents about re-electing kahalny Binki Zjuselevich Iskoldsky in shtetl Mir, Novogrudsky uezd, 4 July 1838.

Electors' oath of shtetl Ruzhany, 1 February 1838
Certificate relieving Itski Izereshevsky of kahalny post in Rozhan Jewish community 5 July 1838
Electors' oath of Ruzhany Jewish community. 03 June1838

298-299 -request of Berestovitsa Jewish community addressed to Emperor not to approve of new kahals for failure to report on the previous three-year period. 15 June 1838; balloting list for scholar, starosta of Synagogue and treasurer in the Rozhan Jewish community.1838/ Name, surname, patronymic, vote, property
335-337 - ballot list
336-337 - ballot list 01 February 1838
345 - electors' oath of Mstibovo Jewish community. 27 September 1838
346 - candidates list for post of 3^rd kahal in Mstibovo Jewish kahal, according to ukase (decree) of the Grodno Guberniya (provincial) board./31 August 1838/
354-355 - certificate of Grodno Jewish community relieving Movsha Itskovich Andres of post of kahalny. October 1838
360-361 - request of Jews of Vysoko-Litovskoje shtetl addressed to Emperor not to approve kahanyl Moshko Ashpiz / inquiry in criminal chamber sent on 3 November 1838
363 - balloting list kahal in shtetl Kamenets.
364 - list of electors of shtetl Kamenets.
365 - balloting list for rabbi, starosta, treasurer, and kahal membership in shtetl Vysoko-Litovskoje
366 - list of resident-electors of shtetl Vysoko-Litovskoje. 1838
367 - ballot list of people elected rabbi, kahal member, and others in shtetl Volchin.
368 - list of electors in shtetl Volchin.
378-379 - receipt for Krynki Jewish community given by community’s kahal for fulfilling their duties until new elections. January 1838
381 - balloting list for kahal membership and rabbi in Lida uezd Jewish community. December 1838.
382 - balloting list for kahal membership and rabbi in Voronezh kahal, 19 August 1838
387 - oath of the electors of shtetl Velikaja Brzhestovitsa.
388 - balloting list for kahal membership in shtetl Velikaja Brzhestovitsa. 27 October1838
389 - oath of the electors / place is not mentioned.
390 - balloting list for kahal membership in shtetl Velikaja Brzhestovitsa. 06.1838
397 - oath of the electors of shtetl Novy Dvor.
398 - oath of the electors / place is not mentioned/
399 - balloting list for kazjonny (public) and ecclesiastic rabbi, kahalny, and starosta in Novodvorsky kahal.
400 - oath of electors /place is not mentioned
401 - balloting list for membership on ecclesiastic board in Schuchin Jewish community.
402-403 - ballot list for membership in ecclesiastic board in Vetreno Jewish community. December 1838
408-409 - petition from shtetl Kamenets-Litovskij Jews, addressed to Emperor on 03 December 1838, not to accept the refusal of kahal Aron Kotyn to fulfil his post, informant: Simha Altershtein is mentioned.
411 - petition of Brest Jews asking to administer oath to elected kahalny and rabbi. December 1838
414 - oath of electors of the Radunsk kahal.
415 -ballot list of Radunsk kahal. /February 1838/
416 - 415 -ballot list of Radunsk kahal. 22 October 1838; additional list
418 - oath of the electors of Vasilishskij kahal.
419-420 - ballot list of Vasilishskij kahal, February 1838.
421 - additional ballot list /22 October 1838 of Vasilishskij kahal; information about candidates.

Fond 2, Opis 3, INDEX for Dyelo (Book) 699 "The Documentation of Board Elections of Grodno Province Kahals 1837-41":
Settlement (kahal)	Locality/District	Pages
Berestovitsa	Velikaya, Grodno	4ds-5; 52-52ds; 388-391ds
Bereza	Pruzhany	156-161ds
Brest	Brest	214-219ds
Kamenets	Brest	363-364ds
Lida	Lida	12-14; 381-381ds
Maletsh	Pruzhany	168-170
Mstibov	Volkovysk	345-346
Novogrudok	Novogrudok	142-147
Novy Dvor	Lida	399-399ds
Ostryna	Lida	402-403
Pruzhany	Pruzhany	23-27; 99-112
Radun	Lida	414-417
Ruzhany	Slonim	334-338ds
Selets	Pruzhany	162-167; 171
Shchuchin	Lida	400-401ds
Shereshov	Pruzhany	153-155; 174-178ds; 232-238
Slonim	Slonim	265-271ds
Vasilishki	Lida	419-422
Volchin	Brest	367-368
Volkovysk	Volkovysk	134-140
Volkovysk district shtetls	Volkovysk	195-205
Voronovo	Lida	382-382ds

Russian election procedures of Jewish kahal officials economical self-rule:

lists of elected persons (for each kahal)

official papers: every Jewish official was to sign after election (for majority of kahals)
list of voters (for many kahals)
details about economic status of elected person (for some kahals)
ages of elected persons (for some kahals)
list of candidates and voting results (for some kahals)

Fond 2 Opis 4. /1846-1849/ 2172 entries

At end is a topic-index, name and geographical index.

10 - renting house of father of Goldberg, merchant of the 1^st guild, for public institutions in Pruzhany. 1846-1850.
226 - complaint of Slonim mieszkanin, Goldberg, about not admitting him to municipal elections. 1847-1849 /N838 - about the same 1848-1850
402 - officially thanking merchant of the 2^nd guild Bloh and uezd doctor Suhotskij for opening a hospital and giving free medical treatment to poor Jews of Bialostok. 1847-1848
1411 - appointing mieszkanin Metlovskij to post of Jewish sotskij [peasant appointed to help the police] in the Sokolskijuezd. 1848.
1621- Money collection from Zeihanovsk Jewish community to pay sotskijs [peasant appointed to help the police] and desjatskijs. 1849-1850.

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Historical background: In 1963, because of the liquidation of regional and city archives, the branch of the State Archive of Grodno Oblast was created in Novogrudek. Chronological period: since 1944.

Territorial scope: Dyatlova, Korelich, Novogrudok, Slonim areas of Grodno Oblast.

Fonds in archive: development of industry and agriculture in post-war years; accomplishments of cities and settlements; development of education; public health services; governmental matters, and culture. The separate Fond is a collection of documents on staff of establishments, organizations and firms

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Estates	Years	Fond/Opis	Dyelo
Citizens	1834	24/7	164
palace	1834	24/7	164
Free people	1834	24/7	166

Vileja district	Revision Lists for given districts are In the State Historical Archive of Lithuania in Vilnius: Lietuvos Valstybinis Istorijas Archyvas 10, Gerosios Vilties, Vilnius, 232015, Lietuva
Vilna district
Disna district
Lida district
Oshmiany district
Sventjan district
Troksky district

57. Gertsko	Abramovich	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
70. Shmujlo Zalmanovich	Alperg	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
53. Jankel Mejerovich	Alperin	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
28. Abram Osherovich	Alpern	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
75. Morduh Gershonovich	Alpern	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
76. Mendel Dovydovich	Alpern	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
54. Mejer Sroliovich	At (Aps? Ans?)	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
16. Volf Ajzikovich	Babich	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
43. Volf Mendeliovich	Babich	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
48. Girsh Naftaliovich	Babich	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
23. Jankel Volfovich	Bas	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
3. Dovyd Mendeliovich	Bereznitskij	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
45. Jelja Berkovich	Berman	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
55. Zusel Sroliovich	Berman	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
62. Orko Girshovich	Berman	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
63. Abram Girshovich	Berman	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
69. Shmujlo Boruhovich	Bulgach	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
1. Jankel Mejerovich	Epshtein	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
2. Iosel Hononovich	Epshtein	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
10. Movsha Ioseliovich	Epshtein	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
14. Nisel Leizerovich	Epshtein	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
20. Iosel Osherovich	Epshtein	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
29. Dovid	Epshtein	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
71. Shmujlo Rubinovich	Epshtein	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
17. Leizer Leibovich	Fuksman	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
18. Haim Movshovich	Fuksman	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
46. Girsh Shimonovich	Fuksman	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
64. Abram Jankeliovich	Fuksman	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
77. Movsha Edidovich	Gelman	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
36. Dovyd Movshovich	Gubar	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
38. Leiba Morduhovich	Gubar	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
65. Jelja Mejerovich	Gubar	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
33. Shmujlo Berkovich	Haidak	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
13. Symho Ioseliovich	Izralet	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
49. Abram Shanovich	Jeliovich	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
74. Mejer Berkovich	Jezernitsk	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
68. Sholem Leibovich	Kaplinsky (z, h ?)	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
60. Abram Shmerkovich	Kazak	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
67. Shimel Ovsenovich	Kobran	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
73. Mejer Shimonovich	Korpel (Kornel ?)	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
25. Sholem Fisheliovich	Kotsyn	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
72. Morduh Abramovich	Kozak	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
78. Haim Genohovich	Kushner	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
42. Movsha Hatskeliovich	Kuznets	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
4. Girsh Itskovich	Levenbuk	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
32. Izrael Rubinovich	Levitan	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
35. Liber Rubinovich	Levitan	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
39. Abram Shmujlovich	Levitan	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
52. Iosel Sohorovich	Levitan	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
40. Orko Dovydovich	Ljamets	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
61. Arija Ioseliovich	Muzykant	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
24. Berko Nirshovich-	Shepjatsky	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
30. Mejer Leibovich	Pines	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
12. Leiba Abramovich	Pitkovsky	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
22. Geshel Leizerovich	Pitkovsky	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
47. Itsko Ioseliovich	Pitkovsky	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
56. Jankel Haimovich	Pitkovsky	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
44. Genah Shliomovich	Ponchoshki	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
9. Mendel Rubinovich	Prinshtein	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
6. Jankel Dovydovich	Salemon	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
41. Berko Gershovich	Savolsky	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
59. Girsh Movshovich	Shamesh	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
37. Leiba Nohimovich	Shatkhan	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
21. Leiba Zelikovich	Shereshovsky	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
8. Srol Nahman Volfovich	Sokolovsky	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
50. Leizer Sheimenovich	Taran	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
5. Girsh Ioseliovich	Zakin	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
7. Lejba Gershonovich	Zakin	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
11. Abram Dovydovich	Zakin	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
15. Leiba Tobijashovich	Zakin	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
26. Abram Movshevich	Zakin	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
27. Hiel Nohimovich	Zakin	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
31. Abram Gershonovich	Zakin	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
34. Jankel Gershonovich	Zakin	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335
51. Movsha Iokeliovich	Zakin	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
58. Leizer Gershovich	Zakin	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
66. Abram Leibovich	Zakliaty	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, page 338
19. Itsko Shliomovich	Zlotnik	Fond 2., Opis 3, entry 699, opposite side of page 335