Re: Kirchenbücher Kiew

Irene König , Dienstag, 04.12.2007, 21:31 (vor 6636 Tagen) @ Gabriel-Alexander Reschke

Hat jemand Erfahrung mit den Kirchenbüchern des Kirchspiels Kiew??

Bill Remus . Ich kopier hier mal rein, was er 2002 über die offene Mailingliste der SGGEE zu dem Thema schrieb:

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As noted earlier on this list, the Kiev records are not indexed but are available on microfilm from the Mormons. The records are nearly complete for 1885 and earlier. All but one missing year is available at the Kiev archives. The SGGEE website lists the film numbers.

These records are easy to work with. The parish is relatively small so the number of records to dig through are relatively few compared to Volhynia. The pastor also had very clear writing and kept fairly detailed records (parents of brides and grooms and the villages in which the births occurred, for example). It is quite elegant script but unfortunately old German script.

The pastor lived in Kiev and when the land unfroze, he would go out to the villages and find out what had happened during winter (babies and deaths). (I don't blame him for avoiding the Ukrainian winter and staying snug in Kiev). So the annual information for each village clumps together as he travels from village to village. My villages of Romansdorf, Ludwigsdorf, Grunwald, and Malin were usually in the area of record #100 in the birth register. Usually you had to get married when he visited or visit him in Kiev so the marriage records are not clumped.

The pastor in Kiev and the one in Volhynia baptized as they traveled (parish lines weren't signposted) so you may find Kiev records in Volhynia (for example Grunwald village) and some east Volhynia records in Kiev).

The post 1885 records are in Russian (unreadable to me) and are at the Kiev archives.
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