Search the VKP Death Records
Volhynia, Kiev and Podolia Parishes
These databases were originally known as the St. Pete or St. Petersburg databases and were based on the Volhynian extractions provided by the Odessa3 website. Because so much material has been added by SGGEE volunteers over the past decade, we have decided to rename them as the VKP Databases (Volhynia - Kiev - Podolia).
This database is an index of:
- Deaths for the parishes of Zhitomir, Rozyszcze, Heimtal (all in Volhynia), Kiev, and Podolia for years 1833 to 1885, with some years missing.
- Deaths for Rozyszcze parish for the missing years 1865, 1871, and 1884.
- Deaths for Rozyszcze parish for the years 1886 to 1895 – in progress (1886, 1887, 1888, 1890, 1891 completed).
- Deaths for Wladimir-Wolynsk parish for the years 1891 to 1894.
Note: For the death of a married woman, the given name (if stated) of her husband is listed in the output under Father. For the death of a married man, the name (if stated) of his wife is listed under Mother's Surname and Mother's Given Name.
SGGEE Members - Please consider the advantage of using the Members Only search page where you can do partial name searches such as searching for "chu" in the middle of a name. The advanced search feature is not available on this page.
You can also search the Birth and Marriage databases.
Search Criteria
1. "Normal Search" is the default. It will find all occurrences of any given sequence of letters in a given search field. Thus, whether the sequence is a complete name or only a portion of a name, no matter where you seek the sequence, it will be found. For instance, if you type in [ jaeger ], you will find entries that include, "Jaeger, "Lobenjaeger", and "Geiger or Jaeger".
2. "Exact Match" will only find entries that include the exact letter sequence entered, and will not return any entry with additional spaces or other characters in the field searched.
3. There are no umlauts in the database (dotted vowels). Most of the umlauted letters have been replaced with ae, oe, or ue, but there are some names where the umlauted letter was changed to simply a, o, or u. You need, therefore, to do a search for both spellings of the name (ie., search for Konig as well as Koenig, etc.).
4. You do not need to enter data in all search boxes to find data. In fact, the more data you enter into the search fields, the fewer will be the results that will be returned. It is therefore possible that you will eliminate the data you seek if you narrow the search too much.