Clans & genealogy

Archives, metrical books and finding aids for researching clan lineages and family history.

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Databases of Victims of Repressions (projects of the State Museum of the History of the GULAG)

A section of the State Museum of the History of the GULAG projects, aggregating books of memory and databases of victims of Soviet repressions—an entry point for identifying individuals, reconstructing families, and mapping the geography of repression; archival links and rehabilitation status should be kept separate from accusations.

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Archives & genealogyLive

FamilySearch Catalogue — metrical books and revision lists

A global genealogical catalogue containing records from Russian metrical books and revision lists relevant to frontier genealogy; useful as a "lead generator," but not an open, barrier-free archive.

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GARB — database of documents in Mongolian script

An electronic database of documents in Old Mongolian script within the GARB holdings, including translated datsan chronicles—a rare and specific node for researchers of pre-revolutionary and datsan sources.

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GARB — electronic catalogue of holdings

An electronic catalogue of GARB archival holdings—allows users to establish which files and collections exist for a specific clan/locality, even when scans are unavailable online.

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Archives & genealogyLive

GARB — electronic genealogical database

The electronic genealogical tool of the Buryatia archive—a section specifically oriented towards searching for genealogical data; valuable to the project as the only official genealogical database for the region.

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GARB — list of metrical books

A section of the GARB website containing a list of metrical books—useful as a starting point for searching birth/marriage/death records for Buryat parishes prior to the digitisation of specific files.

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Pamyat Naroda [Memory of the People]

A portal of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation containing search records of WWII participants (units, awards, burial sites, combat operation maps)—a source for Buryat military biographies and casualties; reference level, not a partner objective.

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Selorodnoe.ru

A local history portal featuring articles on Buryat clans.

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Archives & genealogyLive

State Archive of the Republic of Buryatia (GARB)

The primary regional archive of Buryatia: documents of the steppe dumas, holdings on regional history; only about 1.5% of the holdings are digitised, with most steppe duma records being offline. An entry point to the archive's sub-databases (metrical books, genealogical database, catalogue of holdings, Mongolian script).

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State Archive of Zabaikalsky Krai (GAZK) — catalogues of revision lists and metrical books

Live search catalogues of GAZK revision lists, metrical books, and internal inventories, including materials on Christianised yasak people (Kudarin Buryats) and church books from Verkhneudinsk/Nerchinsk. The most practical of the currently active finding-aid layers for genealogy in the Zabaikalye region.

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Archives & genealogyLive

VGD Forum — State Archive of the Republic of Buryatia thread

A live thread on the oldest genealogical forum in Runet, dedicated specifically to GARB holdings—a ready-made community of researchers of Buryat lineages, sharing findings and search advice.

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web-archiv.ru — GARB page

An information page for the State Archive of the Republic of Buryatia (GARB) on the archives portal.

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