Records & Links

• Research Tools
  Use these research tools to help you translate Russian vital records. See examples of columnar Russian birth and death records.

Links

• Ukraine SIG Master Index of Document and Dataset Collections
• History of Jewish Communities in Ukraine - Chernigov
• JewishGen Ukraine SIG
• Chernigov Gubernia at JewishGen KehilaLinks
  

Records Available Through the LDS Library

• Records for Chernigov Guberniya
  A guide to the types of records for Chernigov that are held at the LDS Library.
   
• Census and Taxation Records
  Based on the content of the original bibliographic records, this page organizes selected Chernigov taxation records by location (uyezd), by date, and by film number.
  
  
• Records organized by uezds of Chernigov guberniya
  These include links to Jewish records in 15 uezds.
   
• Vital Records
  Based on the content of the original bibliographic record, this page organizes the records by town, by date, and by type the records for births, marriages, deaths and divorces in the Jewish communities of Chernigov guberniya.
  

Records available on this site

• Index to Jewish Marriages Recorded in the City of Chernigov 1877, 1879, 1882, 1883, 1885, 1886, and 1895 created by Herbert Lazerow 

• Surnames and date of death of people buried in the Glukhov cemetery

• Novogorod Seversk uyesd Jewish residents

• Novozybkov Uyezd - Census of Jews in 1888 and 1903 (1920)

Cemeteries and their Tombstones
from Jewish communties in the Chernigov Oblast
with tombstone translations in alphabetical order by last name

Bakhmach Tombstones and Translations (39)

Chernigov (City)- Tombstones and Translations (1700+) from the main Jewish cemetery

Horodnya Tombstones and Translations (104)

Ichnya Tombstones and Translations (5)

Konotop Tombstones and Translations (1090)

Korop Tombstones and Translations (24)

Mena Tombstones and Translations (75)

Nizhyn Tombstones and Translations (329)

Oster Tombstones and Translations (241)

Priluki Tombstones and Translations (446)

Semenivka Tombstones and Translations (49)

Shchors Tombstones and Translations (360)

Sosnitsa Tombstones and Translations (20)

Records available on the internet

(To translate the pages from Russian, try http://translate.google.com/ or use Google Chrome as your browser, for it will translate automatically.)

• Cherkassy Jewish community draftee family list for 1885 draft (42 family names)
• List of Jews in rural areas of Kozelets district (Chernigov gubernia) 1906 (73 family names)
• List of Jews living in villages of Glukhov district 1903-1904 (9 family names)
• Names of people buried in the Glukhov Cemetery
  Instructions: After logging in to JewishGen, click on the line above. Then change the drop down menu from surname to "town" and then on the right side, select "sounds like" and then type "Glukhov". For the geographical area select Chernigov and 325 names and dates of death can be accessed. (The first 150 or so entries do not include a surname.)
• Chernigov Oblast cemeteries and their condition 
  Information provided as part of the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry

• Information about 1895 Vsia Rossiia for Poltava, Chernigov, Kiev, Volhynia, Podolia, Taurida and Bessarabia Gubernias Index compiled by Bert Lazerow. Searchable on JewishGen.
  
• Vsia Russia- the entire 1902 Russian-language directory (2340 pages), index at page 174