What census lists are available for research?
The 1775 and 1798 census lists for many villages in the Volga region are available for purchase from AHSGR. A list of these available census lists may be found on our Census page. AHSGR also possesses microfilms of the 1834 census for the Volga villages of Basel, Orlovskaya, Paulskaya, Pobochnya, Schwed, Straub, Yagodnaya Polyana, Zuerich and Zug, which we are able to research by individual family. Copies and translations of these lists are not permitted per the agreement with the archive. The census lists for the nineteenth century are not available in full due to the conditions of the Russian Archives that house them. These archives must contend with a variety of economic challenges, and because of this, obtaining information can be very difficult at best. Some individuals utilize a research contact in Russia to research such records that are not yet available outside of Russia. See question 17 for more information on such contacts.
