Genealogy. Confessed statements

When compiling the statement, a prizewinning accounting principle was used. Recorded the name and the name of the parafianin and his family members, indicating the age and class (peasants, burghers, nobles). If the parafian was not on confession For a long time, the reasons for his absence were indicated - resettlement, military service, etc.


For the first time about
The conduct of the confessional murals is mentioned in 1697. The form was
from the following graphs: the number (ordinal number) of houses or yards; number
(ordinal number) of men; female; estate
state; age; who was at the confession and holy communion -
"Who then confessed to Himself, but did not receive Communion and for what" vinology ";
who was not at confession.

If the peasant family was complete, then
confessions of the late XIX century. the surname was recorded once for all of her
members; the spouses were given a name and a patronymic, children only had a name.



If one of the spouses died, then in relation to the remaining one was shown
widowhood. In the painting, all children were brought in over the year (in practice and half a year),
but in the column about their confession the priest put a dash.

Confessional painting
the abbot of the church signed



Decree Synod from March 7, 1722 obliged all parishioners "to be
on confession and communion , starting from the age of 7, priest ".
If the parishioner was not home for more than a year, he could confess to another
priest, where he lived temporarily, but he was obliged to present
at church by
place of residence certificate that he was in this period of confession.



The importance of this church accounting in that it contained a very
accurate data on number of urban and rural Orthodox population ,
as well as its social structure , since in confessional
books for 1737 - 1842, representatives of seven major social groups, not counting dissenters ,
were recorded separately:

• "spiritual" - the arch-priests, priests, clerks, deacons, sextons, psalmists;


• "military" - generals, officers, ordinary soldiers, Ukrainian Cossacks;


• "prikaznye" - secretaries, recorders, translators, clerks, clerks, copyists, registrars;


• "raznochintsy" - clerks, monastic ministers, hired workers, craftsmen, blacksmiths, coachmen, pansky, priests, Cossack, peasant servants;


• "courtyard" - the courtyard of the gentry rank and other ranks;


• "peasants" - peasants and beans.

In 1843 - 1860, confessional books recorded six camps
groups, and since 1861 - five: spiritual, military, state, city
camps and peasants.





Confessional documents provide accurate data onnumber of urban and rural population of that time. Since the population census in some regions of the Russian Empire (for example, in the Left-Bank Ukraine) was irregular, and their results are not fully recorded - the confessional statements can become a valuable document in genealogical research.
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