Regional overviews
The region determines which state kept the documents, which confession was in the village and in which archive the books lie (places). Choose an overview by the place where the ancestor lived at the date of the event, not by the modern region.
| Region | States before 1939–1945 | Main books | Overview |
|---|---|---|---|
| Volyn and Western Polissia | Russian Empire; Poland 1921–1939 | Orthodox; Catholic | Volyn |
| Galicia | Austria, Austria-Hungary; Poland 1919–1939 | Greek Catholic, Roman Catholic | Galicia |
| Bukovyna | Austria, Austria-Hungary; Romania 1918–1940 | Orthodox | Bukovyna |
| Zakarpattia | Hungary; Czechoslovakia; Hungary 1939–1944 | Greek Catholic, Hungarian civil registration from 1895 | Zakarpattia |
| Kyiv region, Podolia, Left Bank, South | Russian Empire | Orthodox, collected in consistories | Centre and South |
What is common to all
- Look on the Predok page for the village and parish: it shows the subordination and files.
- Catalogues of metric books are published by the archives themselves (archives); image collections are on FamilySearch.
- Languages of records differ: pre-reform Cyrillic, Polish, Latin, German, Hungarian, Romanian (languages and scripts).
- Village names in different states differ; search all forms.
- Guides to particular povits and villages are in the section genealogical areas.