How to search Moldova parish registers
Parish registers of Bessarabia from 1812 to 1923 are kept in fond 211 of the National Archive of Moldova in Chisinau. This page repeats the routes the archive itself publishes. It is a summary of its pages, linked below.
Find the village in the inventory
The archive publishes one inventory per county as PDF on its page for fond 211. Each inventory lists the files (dosare) by year and the churches whose registers each file holds. The village pages of this site take their file numbers from these inventories.
Ask the archive for a certificate
The archive states that it issues certificates of birth, marriage and death for 1820‑1924 from the parish registers, and that requests for them are submitted online at servicii.gov.md. Other certificate and copy requests can be made at the archive by appointment, by post or by email, as set out on its services page. The archive states a minimum fee and that incomplete requests can add to it; read the services page for the current terms.
Work in the reading room
The reading room is at the archive in Chisinau, str. Gheorghe Asachi 67/B. Access to fond 211 requires a research permit issued after a written application and an identity document. Hours, rules and order forms are on the reading room page.
Contact
Address, phones and emails of the archive: arhiva.gov.md/contact.
Limits
The inventories do not say that a given person is in a file. The 1911‑1923 inventories are laid out as tables that this site does not read file by file, so for those years a village page only says that the inventory lists it. This site does not hold copies of the registers.