Volhynia, Kiev and Podolia Parishes

These databases were originally known as the St. Pete or St. Petersburg databases and were based on the Volhynian extractions provided by the Odessa3 website. Because so much material has been added by SGGEE volunteers over the past decade, we have decided to rename them as the VKP Databases (Volhynia - Kiev - Podolia).

This database is an index of:

• Births for the parishes of Zhitomir, Rozyszcze, Heimtal (all in Volhynia), Kiev, and Podolia for years 1833 to 1885, with some years missing.
• Births for Rozyszcze parish for the missing years 1865, 1871, and 1884.
• Births for Rozyszcze parish for the years 1886 to 1899 – in progress (completed to 1895).
• Confirmations for Rozyszcze parish for the years 1862 to 1886.
• Births for Wladimir-Wolynsk parish for the years 1891 to 1895 – with an index of names only for the year 1896.

Note:  A search will bring up both Births and Confirmations.  The letter C in the page column instead of a page number identifies the entry as a Confirmation that took place in the year noted with the film number.  For Confirmations, the Event Place has the form “B- xxx, C or R place- yyy”,  where xxx stands for the Birth Place, and yyy stands for either the Confirmation Place or the Residence Place depending on which one is given in the confirmation record

Please go to our Databases page for a full explanation of our VKP content.

SGGEE Members should consider the advantage of using the Members Only search page where you can do partial name searches such as searching for "chu" in the middle of a name. The advanced search feature is not available on this page.

You can also search the Marriage and Death databases.

 

Search Criteria

1. "Normal Search" is the default. It will find all occurrences of any given sequence of letters in a given search field. 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 ], 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. It is therefore possible that you will eliminate the data you seek if you narrow the search too much.

 

Surname	Given Name	Birth Year	Birth Place

Father's Given Name	Mother's Given Name	Mother's Surname

Normal Search

Exact Match

Sort results by Surname Given Name Birth Date Birth Place

Number of results to display per page 5 10 15 20 25 50

Search

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” .