Welcome to the pages of our genealogical project "Find Your Roots in Belarus and Lithuania". It includes all areas of Nowogrodek, Polesie, Bialystok and Wilno provinces of Rzeczpospolita Polska II and Vilna, Vitebsk, Grodno, Minsk and Mogilev areas' localities of the 5 Belarusian governorates of the former Russian Empire.
We offer:
The administrative voivodeships' (provincial) structure comprising powiats (counties) and gminas (communities) with the listing of absolutely all localities, which existed in the above provinces, such as towns, villages, estates, farmsteads, hamlets, settlements, outskirts etc.
You can register your surname on the site linking it to the places, which relate to your surname's history.
Registered users can establish contacts with other users, and to pin their messages to the areas of their interest, requesting information about their relatives.
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Church parishes' data will be entered gradually with each locality's parish or parishes’ list.
Tserkovno, village (Drissa uezd, Vitebsk guberniya)
Updates 10-29/11/2011
more than 600 "lost" settlements of Minsk Governorate were added. Minsk orthodox diocese with a list of parishes in the late 19th century was created. Most of the villages of the Minsk Governorate were divided by Orthodox parishes as in 1887.
01-10.11.2011
list of localities of Sebezh uezd of Vitebsk Governorate was published (more than 1800 localities in 1906 year). All the localities of Vitebsk Governorate distributed according to Orthodox parishes of the former Diocese of Polock.
17.10.2011
list of localities of Velizh uezd of Vitebsk Governorate was published (more than 1100 localities in 1906 year).
16.10.2011
maps of Senno uezd of Mogilev Governorate from XVIII-XX.