Chernigov gubernia
Chernigov Oblast's main Cities and Districts in 2005
Chernigov Gubernia
The gubernia of Chernikov was founded in 1796. It was reorganized into oblasts during the 1920s. Its major Jewish communities were:
| Borzna |
Chernigov |
Glukhov |
Gorodnya |
Konotop |
| |
Kozelets |
Krolevets |
Mglin |
Nezhin |
Novgorod Severskiy |
| |
Novozybkov |
Oster |
Sosnitsa |
Starodub |
Surazh |
There are currently no gubernia coordinators for Chernigov. If you have links to this gubernia, and are interested in helping coordinate its activities, please contact Ron Doctor . He'll tell you what's involved, and answer any questions.
Pinkhus Karlinsii, Supervisor of Chernigov Floodgate, 1909
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This picture can be found in a special collection at the Library of Congress collection titled:
Photographer to the Tsar: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
Or you can enter into your web browser http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/gorskii.htm
Some Towns of Chernigov
| Berezna |
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Gorodnya |
Priluki |
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Konotop |
| Chernigov City |
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Krolovets |
| Dmitrovka |
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Nezhin |
| Novgord Seversk |
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Repki |
| Snov |
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Sosnitsa |
Families from Chernigov Gubernia
Chernigov ShtetLinks
Borzna
Records available at Family History Library
A spreadsheet detailing these records is available here.
BEREZNA: births 1875, 1877-1879 in v. 10/1244; 1880, 1882 in v. 10/1252
deaths 1875, 1878-1879, 1881-1882 in v. 10/1243
marriages 1875, 1878-1879, 1882 in v. 10/1245; 1876 in v. 10/1244; 1877 in v. 10/1247
CHERNIGOV: births 1875, 1877, 1879, 1889 in v. 10/1244; 1880-1883 in v. 10/1252; 1884, 1890-1893 in v. 10/1255; 1894, 1898, 1902, 1906-1907, 1912-1913 in v. 10/1261; 1910 in v. 3/383
deaths 1875-1878, 1882, 1884, 1887 in v. 10/1243; 1888, 1890-1892, 1894-1895 in v. 10/1246;1895 in v. 10/1260; 1899, 1901-1903 in v. 10/1256; 1906, 1908, 1913-1915, 1918 in v. 10/1308
divorces 1877 in v. 10/1244 marriages 1877, 1879, 1882-1886 in v. 10/1245; 1894-1895, 1901, 1913 in v. 10/1258; 1904-1917 in v. 10/1247; 1905 in v. 10/1261
DMITROVKA: births 1881 in v. 10/1244 and v. 10/1252 deaths 1881 in v. 10/1243 marriages 1882 in v. 10/1245
GORODNYA: births 1902-1903, 1909 in v. 10/1261
deaths 1879, 1884 in v. 10/1243; 1888, 1890, 1892 in v. 10/1246; 1893, 1896, 1898, 1902 in v. 10/1256; 1913-1915, 1917 in v. 10/1308 V 1876, 1912 in v. 10/1247; 1885, 1895-1896, 1903 in v. 10/1258; 1892 in v. 10/1260; 1917 in v. 10/1308
KONOTOP: deaths 1897 in v. 10/1243; 1898, 1909 in v. 10/1256
marriages 1897-1898, 1916 in v. 10/1258; 1915 in v. 10/1246
KOROP: births 1886-1887 in v. 10/1255; 1895, 1897, 1903-1905, 1910 in v. 10/1261 deaths 1896 in v. 10/1256; 1906 in v. 10/1308
marriages 1895, 1898, 1902 in v. 10/1258; 1903 in v. 10/1256; 1906-1907 in v. 10/1247; 1917 in v. 10/1245
KROLOVETS: births 1883 in v. 10/1252; 1885-1887, 1891 in v. 10/1255; 1894-1895, 1903-1905, 1907, 1910 in v. 10/1261; 1909 in v. 10/1260
deaths 1896 in v. 10/1256; 1898 in v. 10/1258; 1906 in v. 10/1308
divorces 1885 in v. 10/1260
marriages 1895, 1898, 1902 in v. 10/1258; 1903 in v. 10/1256;1909 in v. 10/1260
NEZHIN: births 1876, 1878 in v. 10/1244; 1879 in v. 10/1245; 1881-1883 in v. 10/1252; 1884-1887, 1891 in v. 10/1255;
deaths1875, 1877, 1880-1884 in v. 10/1243; 1890-1891, 1893, 1895 in v. 10/1246; 1897-1898, 1902-1903, 1905 in v. 10/1256; 1907-1908, 1911-1912, 1917 in v. 10/1308 marriages 1877-1879, 1884-1886, 1888, 1895 in v. 10/1245; 1899 in v. 10/1247; 1900, 1903 in v. 10/1258
NOVGORD SEVERSK: divorces 1910 in v. 10/1308
REPKI: births 1875-1876, 1879 in v. 10/1244; 1880-1882 in v. 10/1252
deaths 1875 in v. 10/1246
SNOV: deaths 1913-1915, 1917 in v. 10/1308;marriages 1917 in v. 10/1308
SOSNITSA: births 1892 in v. 10/1260;
marriages 1920-1921 in 10/1260 Record group 679, series 3, file 383 -- Record group 679, series 10, files 1243-1247, 1252, 1255-1256, 1258, 1260-1261, 1308.
Chernigov Research Group
Researchers searching for information related to residents of Chernigov gubernia can do research and connect with each other at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukrchern/
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