Sources and method
Every row comes from the official index of parish registers on the portal "Archives of Belarus". Nothing is written from memory.
Where the data comes from
Every row comes from the index of parish registers on the portal "Archives of Belarus" (Department of Archives and Records Management, Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus): the pages by uezd for Orthodox and Uniate churches and for Catholic churches. We fetched the pages on 11 November 2026.
An index row holds the parish (as an adjective, as in the source), sometimes the church, the years, the fond and inventory, and the count or numbers of files. We copy these fields unchanged, except that the dash sign is replaced by a hyphen. The Latin form of the name is a transliteration of the source spelling; the Russian spelling is shown on every page.
What we leave out
Rows without a fond or without years are left out, and so are rows whose name is not one parish: "various churches of the uezd", "various kostely", city lists, military units, single churches without a parish. A blank name cell in the source table continues the parish of the row above, and we read it that way.
The index does not show separately whether births, marriages and deaths are present; that is in the fond inventory at the archive. Part of the registers of the late 19th and early 20th century are, according to the index, temporarily kept in the civil registry (ZAGS) archives and are not in it.
The source gives no modern district or region, no Belarusian spelling of the name and no position of the parish village on a map, so this site has none of them.
How to request a search and what the archives say now
National Historical Archive of Belarus in Minsk (page "Requests and services"): acceptance of applications from individuals for genealogical and thematic research has been suspended since 02.04.2026, and for biographical requests since 17.09.2026. The reading room works by prior appointment.
National Historical Archive of Belarus in Grodno (page "Requests and services"): registration of genealogical requests from individuals has been suspended since 01.02.2025, and the archive recommends doing the research yourself in the reading room by appointment.
This is correct as of 11 November 2026 and may change: check the archive pages.
What this site does not do
We do not search the archives, order documents or promise that your ancestors are in the books. We show what the archive index says about a parish and point to the official pages.