Conscription occurred each year in October. Drafting of selected groups began earlier but as of January 1, 1874, all 21-year-old males were subject to military service. General: Lists of those being called up for military service. Record type: A military record of conscripts. However, they serve as a census substitute for males. Research use: Hard to research because lists are arranged chronologically by district. Reliability: They are not completely reliable because of efforts to evade taxation or conscription by avoiding correct enumeration. This record was not compiled for non-taxed classes: the nobility, high officials, clergy, military, and foreigners.
#Kupechestvo archive#
Location: State Historical Archive in Kishinev. Includes information on a person's age at time of previous revision and information about those who left or died between revisions and date of death. Revision lists (skazski) are filed and bound by districts and large cities.Ĭontents: Revision number of household, name, parentage, age, sex, nationality, social rank, relationship to household head, and change of status since the last revision of all those in the household. Separate lists were kept for the different social classes such as merchants (kupechestvo), townspeople (meshchane) and peasants (krestiane). One copy was kept in the county treasury (uezdnoe kaznacheistvo) and the other was sent to the provincial fiscal chamber (gubernskaiia kazennaia palata).
Enumeration began in Moldova, after it was annexed a Bessarabia, with the seventh revision (1824-1825), followed by eighth (1833-1835), ninth (1850-1852) and tenth (1857-1859). General: Ten official revisions were conducted in the Russian Empire through 1859. Record type: Population enumeration for the purpose of assessing a poll tax and identifying those for conscription into the military. The original returns are bound in volumes that are sometimes three to four feet thick, making them very difficult to handle except on microfilm. Due to the difficulty in using metrical books, the revision list provides the most information for the least amount of effort. Research use: Excellent source for identifying family groups. Soviet Union, Soldier Memorials, 1915-1950 at MyHeritage ($), index.
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