About and sources

Where the data comes from

Every village page is built from the inventories of fond 211, "Registrele parohiilor din Basarabia", published as PDF by the National Archive of Moldova on arhiva.gov.md. Each page links the inventory PDF it was read from. The archive's other pages used here: services, reading room, the online certificate service.

What is read and what is not

• Village names, church names, years and file numbers are taken from the inventories of the years before 1911. Names and years are as printed there; spelling varies between inventories, and a few entries are misprints in the source.
• The inventories for 1911‑1923 are tables that do not extract reliably, so no file numbers or years are taken from them. A village page notes that the 1911‑1923 inventory lists the village only where the village is also found in an earlier inventory.
• Counties are the historical ones of the inventories. We do not map them to today's districts and we give no modern names.
• Some inventory lines name a village only in a title or are cut across pages; such lines can be missing here.
• Nothing here says that a person is recorded in a file.

Contact

For corrections to the data and for any privacy request: oleksandr.slobodianiuk+echolot@helio-app.com.

What the free check form stores

When you send the form we store: the village and county you typed, the years if you gave them, your email address, the date of the consent wording, the page you sent it from, and how you reached the site (the referring website and campaign tag, if any). We use it only to answer your request. The request is kept for 24 months and deleted earlier if you ask by email. We do not ask for a passport or ID number.

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