ChGK acts by district, metric book indexes and “Watch a village”
ChGK acts, 1944–1945. NARB fond 1569 holds digital copies, from GARF, of the acts of the Extraordinary State Commission on the occupiers' crimes: records of witness interviews, name lists of those killed and deported to Germany, for every region of the Byelorussian SSR. We read the archive's own inventory and added all 227 files with titles and dates, each with a link to its scans. A place's page now shows the files of its town, of its 1944 district and of its region — for instance Dzyarzhynsk. All the files are open to everyone.
Metric book indexes. Geneteka, by the Polish Genealogical Society, indexes baptisms, marriages and deaths. The pages of parish seats, and of the villages of those parishes, now link to the indexes of 284 parishes of Belarus, with the years transcribed — for instance Mir.
Watch a village. A place's page has a “Watch” button: when a new file about the place appears in the catalogue, you get an e-mail.
Machine translation of titles. About 9% of our titles are translated already, into Belarusian, Polish and English. The translation is shown under the title, marked as such, and search finds the file by it.
| Total | This week | |
|---|---|---|
| Files in the catalogue | 329,591 | +5,174 |
| open to everyone | 283,125 | +5,648 |
| in early access | 46,466 | −474 |