Buryatia Archive Digitizes Parish Registers for Online Access
The main work of digitizing parish registers has been completed at the State Archive of Buryatia.
Parish registers are old church records of births, marriages, and deaths. All documents have been converted to digital format, and the database has been created and systematized. The archive purchased a special industrial scanner for the digitization. The project is being carried out on the instructions of the President of Russia.
Remote access now depends on software refinements: data protection and secure user access must be ensured in line with cybersecurity requirements. Once the service launches, archival documents can be studied online without visiting the reading room.
You can already learn your ancestry by visiting the State Archive of the Republic of Buryatia in person. Remote access to the documents is planned to open no later than 2027.
