Ukrainian archives move ahead with digitized records and a new database

A war is hitting Ukraine in many directions so Ukrainian archive officials know the time is now to get records online.

A lot of movement is being seen with Kyiv Regional Archives, which just released a new database of indexed birth, marriage, divorce and death records from 1919-1945.

So far, the database has more than 51,000 births,  2,500 marriages,  500 divorces, and 67,000 deaths. Hopefully, this database will continue to grow with more indexed records.

(The above image shows the perks of using a language translator web browser such as Google Translate, which also can translate names into Ukrainian here.)

Not only has Kyiv Regional Archives added that database, the archive has added another 14,800 surnames between May and June for its Filtering cases of repatriates of Kyiv Region database.

Kyiv Regional Archives estimate it possesses 115,000 filtering cases. So far, 78,000 cases are indexed in the the database. FamilySearch is scanning the cases so the files can be viewed online in the near future.

Another development with WWII-related records has been the release of 1 million Holocaust-related record scans from Ukrainian archives to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. These records are searchable here.

Once the scanning of Holocaust-related records are complete, it is expected the database will have about 10 million scans.

Another important set of records on the Ukrainian Jewish population that have been posted online is Fund 505, “All-Ukrainian Commission for Land Management of Working Jews under the Presidium of the VUCVK (UkrKOMZET), Kharkiv, 1923-1933.” More than 126,000 scans from this fund are online.

Ukrainian archives also are working toward better documentation of Soviet-era persecution. Another 2,700 persecution victims of the 1920s-1950s were added to a central database here. More than 90,000 people are documented in the database.

The State Archive of the Volyn Region also has posted another 191 criminal cases from the Soviet era. Go to the bottom of this page for Fund 4666 and a PDF file will appear for each volume.

A more complete documentation of the Soviet-era persecution will need the cooperation of nearby countries. Ukrainian officials met their counterparts from Moldova on July 15 to exchange information on Soviet persecution victims who were Ukrainians and Moldovans in each other’s countries.

Ukrainian archives also are trying to document Czechs and Slovaks who faced the same persecution in Ukraine.  Central State Archive of Public Associations of Ukraine and Institute for Research of Totalitarian Regimes of the Czech Republic signed an agreement in June for this project.

In addition to the focus on WWII- and Soviet-persecution files, various Ukrainian archives have been posting metric records and civil registrations.

State Archive of the Dnipropetrovsk Region added more scans of its church books here. Links to the scanned records start after the stated year. For example, Арк. 1-70 in Ukrainian or Ark. 1-70 in English (using the Google Translate web browser app) are the links to click.

State Archive of Lviv Region posted four civil registration books for the Mykolaiv District (1940–1941). The files were posted here on Google Drive.

State Archive of Rivne Oblast has posted 30 record books for Goshcha, 1900–1903, Bochanytsia, 1884–1897, Bugryn, 1863–1907, Vilhir, 1863–1905, Horbakiv, 1863–1900, and Dorohobuzh, 1863–1899.

A unique set of records was posted on the website of the State Archive of the Sumy Region- Letters (with photos) of citizens forcibly taken to work in Germany in 1941-1943.

Let the scans from Ukrainian archives to continue flowing online.

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