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		INTRODUCTION

TOWNS AND REPOSITORIES IN UKRAINE

The database relates to towns within the current borders of Ukraine and towns that were formerly in Poland, but are now within the borders of Ukraine.

The documents are located in the following repositories:

Kiev	State Committee on Archives of Ukraine 24 Solomians’ka Street Kyiv 03110, Ukraine http://www.archives.gov.ua/Eng/
	Note: to contact oblast/province and zonal/district archives in Ukraine, CLICK HERE.
	Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Kiev 24 Solomianska Street Kyiv 03110, Ukraine Tel: 380/44/277-3002
	V. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine Prospect 40-Richchia Zhotvtnia, 3 Kyiv 03039, Ukraine Tel: 380/44/ 265-81-04 fax: 380/44/264-33-98, 264-17-70, 265-56-02 E-mail: nlu@csl.freenet.kiev.ua http://www.nbuv.gov.ua/eng/
	Scientific Library of Central State Archives of Ukraine 24 Solomianska Street Kyiv 03110, Ukraine Tel: 380/44/277-1224
Lvov	Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv Soborna Pl., 3-a Lviv, 79008 Ukraine Tel: 380/322/72-30-63; Fax: 380/322-72-35-08 E-mail: archives@cl.lv.ukrtel.net
	V. Stefanyk Lviv Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine vul. Stefanyka 2 79001 Lviv Ukraine Tel: 380/322/72-57-20; 72-07-13; Fax: 76-51-58 http://www.archives.gov.ua/Archives/index.php?nan05 email: manuscr@lsl.lviv.ua
Ostrog	Ostrog Regional Museum 5 Academicheskaya Street Rovno Oblast Ostrog 265620 Ukraine
Note: Contact information for ZAGS offices (civil registration offices) throughout Ukraine, see * below.

Included in this database are repositories outside of Ukraine holding documents for towns within the current borders of Ukraine:
Warsaw	AGAD (Archives of Ancient Acts) 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/index.eng.html
	Jewish Historical Institute ul. Tlomackie 3/5 Warszawa 00-090, Poland Tel: 48/22/827-92-21; Fax: 48/22/827-8372 e-mail: secretary@jewishinstitute.org.pl http://www.jewishinstitute.org.pl
	Urzad Stanu Cywilnego w m. st. Warszawie Archiwum ul. Smyczkowa 14 Warszawa 02-678 Poland Tel: 48/22/847-4821; Fax: 48/22/847-6062
Note: The USC office (civil registrations) in Warszawa has documents from towns formerly in Poland and now in Ukraine, including the area of the former Eastern Galicia comprised of the provinces of Tarnopol/Ternopil, Lvov/Lviv and Stanislawow/Ivano Frankivsk. This material was formerly located in the Urzad Stanu Cywilnego Warszawa-Srodmiescie office at 1/3 Jezuicka Street.
Kishinev	Moldova National Archives 67b Gheorghe Asachi Street Kishinev 277028, Republic of Moldova Tel: 373/0422/73-58-27
Minsk	National Historical Archives of Belarus in Minsk 55 Kropotkina Street Minsk 220002, Republic of Belarus Tel: 375/107/268-6522; Fax: 268-6520 e-mail: niab@solo.by http://www.archives.gov.by/eindex.htm
Brest	Brest Oblast Archives 8 Engelsa Street Brest 224005, Republic of Belarus Tel: 375/162/26-59-29
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
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: Transliteration is from the former Russian spelling because the language of the relevant documents (and time period) is Russian.

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

CIA The World Factbook/ Ukraine:
     https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
News From and About Ukraine and Ukrainians:
      http://www.brama.com/news/press/991008roots.html
Jewish Records Indexing Project–Poland: http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/
JewishGen: http://www.jewishgen.org (many related sites available here)
Galicia Special Interest Group: http://www.jewishgen.org/Galicia/
Galicia Jewish Museum: http://www.galiciajewishmuseum.org
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)
Private collection of Rabbi Moishe Leib Kolesnik in Ivano Frankivsk
Jewish Web Index: http://jewishwebindex.com
Hungarian Jewish Roots: http://www.jewishroots.hu

* Note: Public access to ZAGS documents is regulated by law, which prohibits on-site access and research by individuals looking for multiple records for genealogical purposes. It is not uncommon to find a sympathetic clerk in a local ZAGS office who will cooperate in varying degrees in order to accommodate the visitor during an on-site visit. However, this is a courtesy response and not available upon demand. It is possible to write to the Ukrainian Consulate in your country and request a search for a very few specific vital records. This is a time-consuming process; it may take months to receive a response. If the search is successful, a letter will be sent to the requestor advising him/her to forward a sum of money to the consulate’s office; in return, a certified extract of the document (on a typed form) will be sent out by mail. None of the documents in any ZAGS office have been microfilmed and there are no plans to do so (due to privacy restrictions relating to twentieth century records). Also see chapter entitled "Urzad Stanu Cywilnego Warszawa-Srodmiescie" for additional information. To locate the Ukrainian Embassy/Consulate in your country, see http://www.embassyworld.com/embassy/ukraine.htm In the U.S., contact: Consul General of Ukraine 240 E. 49th Street New York, NY 10017 http://www.brama.com/ua-consulate Embassy of Ukraine 3350 "M" Street NW Washington D.C., 20007 http://www.ukremb.com

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