Russia, Samara, Civil Registers, 1918-1922

What is in This Collection?

This collection, which contains records for the years 1918-1922, consists of images of civil registers containing births, marriages, and deaths for the city of Samara, acquired from the archive in Samara. Civil registers, also called vital records, had just been established in Russian cities at this time, and gaps in registration continued until 1926.

While searching through this collection, it may be helpful to note that some of the letters used in these records were eliminated in the 1918 Russian spelling reform (Iі, Ѳѳ, Ѣѣ, Ѵѵ). Knowing these facts can be helpful while working with Russian genealogy.

Additional records and/or images may be added to this collection in the future.

Reading These Records

These records are in Russian. For help reading them see:

• Russia Language and Languages
• Russian Genealogical Word List
• Russia Handwriting

FamilySearch Learning Center videos:

• Reading Russian Documents: The Russian Alphabet

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Collection Content

The following information may be found in these records: