Metadata: Vital records office for the synagogue district in Ciechanowiec
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- State Archives in Białystok
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiwum Państwowe w Białymstoku
- Postal address:
- Rynek Kościuszki 4, Białystok 15-426
- Phone number:
- +48 85 743 56 03
- Web address:
- http://www.bialystok.ap.gov.pl/
- Reference number:
- 4/544
- Title:
- Vital records office for the synagogue district in Ciechanowiec
- Title (official language):
- Akta stanu cywilnego Okręgu Bożniczego w Ciechanowcu
- Creator/accumulator:
- Municipal administration of Ciechanowiec
- Date(s):
- 1839/1934
- Language:
- Polish
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 0.69 linear metres (44 folders)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains an incomplete set of vital records: births, marriages, deaths 1839-1902, 1905 issued for the inhabitants of the Jewish community in Ciechanowiec.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The vital records for marriages were written in Polish from 1808 and they had to be created in two copies: oroginal and duplicate. After 1825, when the Civil Code of the Kingdom of Poland was enforced, 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 vital records registers was initially to be kept by mayors, and for the Mosaic religion by rabbis. From 1868 to around 1916, books were kept in Russian, and then again in Polish. This registration system was maintained until 1945. A decree, effective as of 1 January 1946, introduced universal, state and nationwide registration of marital status by new state administration bodies (registry offices) and mandated that all previous records up to 1946 were handed over to those bodies.
- Access points: locations:
- Ciechanowiec
- System of arrangement:
- The collections contains three incomplete series of vital records for births, marriages, and deaths.
- Finding aids:
-
Księgi metrykalnego i stanu cywilnego w archiwach państwowych w Polsce. Informator [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
