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Byten 1850 Revision List

Latitude: 52º53' Longitude: 25º30'
Also known as Buten, Butern, and Butin

Byten was part of Slonim uyezd, Grodno gubernia. The original three Revision Lists are located in the National Historical Archives of Belarus (Grodno branch) and are part of Fond 24, Inventory 7, files 465, 477 and 478. To the best of our knowledge, these lists were not filmed by the Family History Library (FHL). For more background on Revision Lists in general, please click here. In the absence of vital records, the Revision List are an excellent source document for researching your family history. Earlier family or census lists exist for Byten which may enable researchers to trace their families into the 1700, when most people did not have surnames. The 1806 list has surnames for all but a few of the entries and therefore, is a key link back to the earlier 1784 Byten Kahal (census) list that is in the hands of Jewish Family History Foundation. The Belarus SIG is in the process of working out an agreement with the Foundation to cooperatively share data.

These databases are a complete extraction and translation from Russian and are not an index. The 1806 Revision List does not have registration numbers and that field is blank. Be sure to carefully read the "comments", "reason left" and "year left" fields, which contain additional information on some of the entries and may provide you with leads to other shtetls and death years. These lists are in alphabetical order by surname. In some cases, the household included people with different surnames. Therefore, you should look in the "other surnames" and either find those names on the list or look for the same registration number (1850 & 1858 lists).

The data for the three Byten Revision Lists will eventually be added to the combined Belarus Revision List database that will be searchable from the All Belarus Database.

The Belarus SIG would like to thank those members who contribute funds to make these lists available and also to our Webmaster and Database Manager for his efforts to get to make this data available in such a short time.

Also see: Byten 1806 Revision list     Byten 1858 Revision List

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