Index to 1897 Russian Census Head of Households in Kyiv Guberniya Online

[Gary Mokotoff gary@mokotoff.net]

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Professional genealogist Sarah Nadia Lipes has placed online an index to
heads of households in Kyiv guberniya found in the 1897 Russian Census. It
is located at http://jewua.info/jewish-genealogy-search-at-ukraine/ .
Information provided is surname; given name; patronymic; age; and fond,
document and page numbers. There are approximately 50,000 entries. The
search engine uses a "Starts with" algorithm. Searching for "Kagan" also
produces results for "Kaganovich."

Lipes stated that the project is a work-in-progress, and she expects "to add
many thousands of additional names in coming weeks and months." She
recommends researchers read the instructions page at
http://jewua.info/how-to-make-a-search/ before attempting a search. That
page has, for example, the transliteration scheme used to go from the
Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet.

The project was funded by a grant provided by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., host
of the American genealogy show Finding Your Roots. Gates had a person of
Ukrainian ancestry on his show and provided documents to demonstrate the
person's ancestry. Lipes informed Gates that the research was faulty and
provided him with the correct documents. Gates was so impressed by Lipes
work, that he donated his honorarium for speaking at the recent IAJGS
Orlando conference to make it possible to place the Kyiv census records
online.

Gary Mokotoff
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