Subject: Status of Minsk Records, particularly Vitebsk
From: "Howard M. Rensin" <hrensin@erols.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 14:07:25 -0400

I have just paid a VERY large fee for research in Minsk and
particularly for Vitebsk. I was informed that there are no
metrical books (registrations of births/deaths/marriages) or
Revizsky Skazski (revision lists/census lists) for Vitebsk,
there was a series of books that consist of family lists and
merchant lists begining 1874 with entries up through 1919.
there are 88 books in the series and they contain
information from a variety of sources, where the original
source may no longer exist. They are include Army
inductions.

If you encounter someone offering to locate information for
this same area, for a fee, ask them what books they intend
to review for that fee. If the answer is different than what
I have put in the prior paragraph, this has to be resolved
before you spend any of your money for this search. One of
us will have gotten wrong information.

                        Howard
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