Metadata: Vital records of the Tykocin Synagogue District
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- State Archives in Białystok
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiwum Państwowe w Białymstoku
- Postal address:
- Adama Mickiewicza 101, 15-257 Białystok
- Phone number:
- +48 85 743 56 03
- Web address:
- http://www.bialystok.ap.gov.pl/
- Reference number:
- 4/266
- Title:
- Vital records of the Tykocin Synagogue District
- Title (official language):
- Akta stanu cywilnego Okręgu Bożniczego w Tykocinie
- Creator/accumulator:
- Municipal administration of Tykocin
- Date(s):
- 1826/1907
- Date note:
- 1826-1900, 1902, 1904, 1907
- Language:
- Polish
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 1.67 linear metres (80 folders)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection contains incomplete birth records for 1826-1900, 1902, 1904, 1907, marriage records 1827-1900, 1902, 1904, 1907, death records 1827-1900, 1902, 1904, 1907, 1905 registered in the Kingdom of Poland.
The collection includes birth, marriage and marriage certificates filled in by the civil registrar of the Tykocin district for the years 1827-1831, 1833, 1879, 1897, 1899.
There are duplicates of the register of religious records of births, marriages and deaths of the Synagogue District in Tykocin for non-Christian denominations from 1835-1837. In addition, the collection contains duplicate birth, marriage and death certificates of the non-Christian denominations of the Tykocin district written up by a civil registry officer from the years 1837-1842, 1844, 1846, 1847, 1852, 1853, 1856, 1857-1862, 1864, 1866, 1868, 1871-1876.
The collection includes documents necessary for issuance of vital records of the deceased and marriages in 1829, kept by a civil registrar for non-Christian denominations in the Tykocin district. Documentation for the vital records register of marriages for non-Christian denominations for the town of Tykocin has been preserved from the years 1830, 1831, 1833-1834, 1836, 1839-1842, 1846, 1851, 1855, and to the Tykocin district from 1842, 1845, 1849-1850, 1853, 1857, 1858, 1860, 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866.
Units grouped in the collection contain original death records generated by the civil registrar for non-Christian denominations in the Tykocin district, started on 1 January 1867 and completed at the end of 1873 and written in the years 1826-1844, 1856-1865, 1874-1882, as well as registers of original birth certificates from 1866-1873, 1880-1883, 1885. There are also annexes to marriage certificates for 1879.
- Archival history:
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The vital records registers were conducted in Polish from 1808 and they had to be created in two copies: the original and a duplicate. After 1825, when the Civil Code of the Kingdom of Poland entered into force, the registry office records were combined with church records of individual denominations, and the parish superior was also a civil registry officer. For non-Christian religions (Judaism, Islam), the registry office was initially to be under the purview of mayors, and of rabbis for the Jewish religion from 1830.
From 1868 to around 1916, the registers were kept in Russian, and then again in Polish. This registration system was maintained until 1945. A decree that went into effect on January 1, 1946, introduced universal, state and nationwide registration of marriages by new state administration bodies - registry offices, to which previous record books were handed over until 1946.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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From 1807, the former counties of the Prussian partition: Białystok and Bielsko, a large part of Drohiczyn (without Wysokie Mazowieckie) and Suraż (without Tykocin) formed the Białystok Oblast, which was part of the Russian Empire. The oblast had the status of a governorate and included four counties: Białystok, Bielsko, Drohiczyn and Sokółka. Until 1842, it was a separate administrative unit of the Russian Empire. Then the oblast was incorporated into Grodno province, which was under the supreme administrative authority of the Russian Grand Duke. During World War I, there was a dispute over the ownership of the lands of the Grodno region. In the years 1919–1921, the territories of the oblast finally became part of the Second Polish Republic, creating in large part Białystok Province.
In 1825, a decision was issued concerning the drawing up of vital records for non-Christian denominations. For this purpose, mayors were appointed to administer these records, or their deputies. For Jews, on the other hand, from 1830 an additional decision was issued according to which rabbis could enter the relevant information upon performing a religious rite.
- Access points: locations:
- Tykocin
- System of arrangement:
- The collection contains three series: an incomplete series of birth records, marriage records, and death records.
- Finding aids:
-
Księgi metrykalnego i stanu cywilnego w archiwach państwowych w Polsce. Informator [Parish Registers and Vital Records in State Archives in Poland. A Catalogue], ed. Anna Laszuk, Warszawa 1998.
An online finding aid is also available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Urszula Gierasimiuk, 2018
