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Search the St. Petersburg Birth Records

This database was originally hosted on the Odessa3 web site. You can also search the Marriage and Death databases.


Great News!

The original St. Petersburg records can now be viewed on line! Use the index below to find your ancestor and then go to see and print off a copy of the original.

To see the originals, go to the LDS Labs site.

Click on "Record Search" to see a world map.

Click on "Asia and Middle East"

Click on the link for "Russia Lutheran Church Book Duplicates 1833-1885"

The scroll window shows all the locations available on these St. Pete records.  Scroll down to the bottom and click on "Volyn"

Any one of the next 3 links will take you to the info you want.

Note that you cannot find the record using the old microfilm numbering system. To find it, take careful note of the year and page number. Use that to find your way through the originals.

Search Criteria

1. "Normal Search" is the default search. Because we use an Oracle database engine, as you do a "Normal Search" you will quickly find all occurrences of any given sequence of letters in a given search field in the database. Thus, whether the sequence is a complete name or only a portion of a name, no matter where you seek the sequence, it will be found. For instance, if you type in "jaeger" (without the quote marks), you will find entries that include, "Jaeger, "Lobenjaeger", and "Geiger or Jaeger".

2. "Exact Match" will only find entries that include the exact letter sequence entered, and will not return any entry with additional spaces or other characters in the field searched.

3. There are no umlauts in the database (dotted vowels). Most of the umlauted letters have been replaced with ae, oe, or ue, but there are some names where the umlauted letter was changed to simply a, o, or u. You need, therefore, to do a search for both spellings of the name (ie., search for Konig as well as Koenig, etc.).

4. You do not need to enter data in all search boxes to find data. In fact, the more data you enter into the search fields, the fewer will be the results that will be returned, and it is likely that you will eliminate the data you seek if you narrow the search too much.

Surname Given Name Birth Year






Father's
Given Name		 Mother's Surname,
Given Name		 Birth Place






Normal Search Exact Match






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NOTES: You do not need to fill in every blank. You only need to type in the beginning part of a name or word for the search engine to find results (Advanced searches allow the search for the part anywhere in the word). Typing part of a word will return all of the derivatives; searching for the character “A” will return any word where the beginning letter is “A” .

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