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		INTRODUCTION

TOWNS AND REPOSITORIES IN BELARUS

The database includes documents for towns within the current borders
of Belarus and towns that were formerly in Poland, but are now within
the borders of Belarus.

The documents were located in the following repositories:

Minsk	National Center for Archives and Records Management 10 Kollektornaya Street Minsk 220048, Republic of Belarus Tel/Fax: 375/017/220-51-20 http://www.archives.gov.by/EArh/eKomitet.htm
	Note: to contact oblast/district and zonal/regional archives in Belarus, CLICK HERE.
	National Historical Archives of Belarus in Minsk 55 Kropotkina Street Minsk 220002, Republic of Belarus Tel: 375/017/268-6522; Fax: 268-6520; e-mail: niab@solo.by http://www.archives.gov.by/eindex.htm
	National Archives of the Republic of Belarus 43 Kirova Street Minsk 220030, Republic of Belarus Tel: 375/017/222-3229; Fax: 375/017/222-3285 http://www.archives.gov.by/EArh/E_naz.htm
	Minsk Oblast Archives 26 Kozlova Street Minsk 220038, Republic of Belarus Tel: 375/017/236-1126, 236-1176, 236-1387; Fax: 236-1426 http://www.archives.gov.by/EArh/erxo_minsk.htm
Grodno	National Historical Archives of Belarus in Grodno 2 Tizengauza Square Grodno 230023, Republic of Belarus Tel: 375-0152/44-94-66 or 47-28-56 http://www.archives.gov.by/EArh/E_Hist_grodno.htm
	Grodno Oblast Archives 84 Dzerzhinsk Street Grodno 230005, Republic of Belarus Tel/Fax: 375/0152/72-24-43 and 47-04-92 http://www.archives.gov.by/EArh/erx_grodnoo.htm
	Grodno ZAGS Archives 3 Ozheshko Street Grodno 230023 Republic of Belarus Tel: 375/0152/47-09-54, 72-30-20 Tel/Fax: 375/0152/31-20-85
In this database, there are repositories outside of Belarus holding documents for towns within the current borders of Belarus.
Warsaw	Polish State Archives-AGAD (Central Archives of Historical Records) ul. Dluga 6, skr. poczt. 1005 Warszawa 00-950, Poland Tel: 48/22/831-5491; Fax: 48/22/831-1608 e-mail: archagad@poczta.onet.pl http://www.archiwa.gov.pl/agad/eng/index.eng.html
	Jewish Historical Institute ul. Tlomackie 3/5 Warszawa 00-090, Poland Tel: 48/22/827-9221; Fax: 48/22/827-8372 e-mail: secretary@jewishinstitute.org.pl http://www.jewishinstitute.org.pl
Bialystok	State Archive in Bialystok ul. Rynek Kosciuszki 4 Bialystok 15-426, Poland Tel: 48/85/743-5603 e-mail: secretaria_apt@bialystok.ap.gov.pl http://www.bialystok.ap.gov.pl
Moscow	State Archives of the Russian Federation ul. Bol'shaia Pirogovskaia, 17 Moscow 119817 Russia Tel: 7/095/245-8141; Fax: 7/095/245-1287 e-mail: garf@oline.ru http://garf.narod.ru/ Also see: http://www.iisg.nl/~abb/abb_b1.html
Vilnius	Lithuanian State Historical Archives Gerosios Vilties 10 Vilnius LT-03134, Lithuania Tel: 370/2/23-74-32; Fax: 370/2/23-76-12 e-mail: istorijos.archyvas@centras.lt
Kaunas	Kaunas Regional Archives Maironio 28a Kaunas 44249, Lithuania Tel: 370/732-3074; Fax: 370/732-3111 e-mail: archyvas@turbodsl.lt
Jerusalem	Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People P.O. Box 1149, Jerusalem 91010, Israel http://sites.huji.ac.il/archives/ email: archives@vms.huji.ac.il

Note: The Republic of Belarus has two official languages: Belorussian and Russian. On this website, the Acknowledgments of archive directors from Belarus are in the Russian language.

Note: : For additional information about documents, archives and towns in Belarus, visit:

CIA The World Factbook/ Belarus:
      https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Belarus Special Interest Group: http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/
Family History Library:
      http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp
      (search by place name to see if your ancestral town has been microfilmed)
State Archives of Register Offices (ZAGS):
      http://www.archives.gov.by/EItd/egen_zags.htm
      (includes addresses for Oblast ZAGS offices in Belarus)
Administrative-Territorial Divisions of Belarus:
      http://www.president.gov.by/gosarchives/EItd/ETK_FR.htm
Embassy of the Republic of Belarus: http://www.belarusembassy.org/
Jewish Web Index: http://jewishwebindex.com

Note: Click here for
          Lists of Jewish Farmers in the National Archives of Belarus in Grodno.

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