Records : [microform], 1733-1938, 1984.

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Records : [microform], 1733-1938, 1984.

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This collection is divided into eight series: Ukaz (1826-1899); Clergy Dossier (1762-1929), including ordination certificates, travel and transfer requests, financial concerns, and family matters; Translations (1835-1911), consisting of translations of scriptures and religious writings into Native languages, and dictionaries and primers; Geographical File (1733-1938), containing parish records from twenty areas including Siberia, the Kurile Islands, the Aleutian Islands, the Pribilof Islands, the Yukon-Kuskokwim area, Kodiak, the Kenai Penisula, Southeast Alaska, and other areas; Vital Statistics (1816-1936) including births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths; Supplemental Sets (1828-1932), which contains duplicate materials from the Geographical File and the Vital Statistics; Photographs (1878-1934); and Other Papers, primarily containing the records of Bishops Tikhon Bellavin (1865-1925), and Evdokim Mesherskii (1869-1935). An index to the vital statistics was compiled by the Library of Congress between 1964 and 1973. A guide to the collection was published in 1984.

403 microfilm reels.

UAA/APU Consortium Library, Consortium Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7998589

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