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*Tracing Your Roots > Jewish > Records in Other Countries
* LDS Microfilms 
 
Microfilming began in 1993 in Minsk and Grodno. Some Jewish records have been microfilmed and became available in 1995.

An inventory of the Jewish records filmed at Minsk archives (22 towns) is listed in Avotaynu X:4 (Winter 1994), page 7.

For microfilm numbers, see *JewishGen InfoFile

Early revision lists (1795, 1811, 1816, 1842) were microfilmed in Minsk in 1995. There are 126 microfilms. See Avotaynu XII:1 (Spring 1996), page 9 for microfilm numbers. (They are also at *feefhs.org)


Special Interest Groups

Belarus SIG (covering the guberniyas of Grodno, Minsk, Mogilev and Vitebsk) was formed in1998. The Belarus special interest group *www.jewishgen.org/Belarus offers a comprehensive guide to history and research in Belarus.



Creators: Dr Saul Issroff

 
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