Tula Oblast Genealogical Records

Tula Oblast Birth & Baptism Records

Russian Lutheran Church Books (1833-1885)

An index to and images of books recording the baptism, marriage and burial of around 1 million people. The records cover people of German extraction.

Russia Birth & Baptism Index (1755-1917)

An index to over 170,000 various birth and baptism records, listing parents' names.

Miscellaneous Births & Baptisms Index (1534-1983)

A small index to several-hundred-thousand records from select countries.

Tula Oblast Marriage & Divorce Records

Russian Lutheran Church Books (1833-1885)

An index to and images of books recording the baptism, marriage and burial of around 1 million people. The records cover people of German extraction.

Russia Marriage Index (1793-1919)

An index to more than 30,000 marriage records, including personal details, names of relations and particulars of marriage.

Miscellaneous Marriage Index (1662-1945)

An index to more than 30,000 marriage records, including personal details, names of relations and particulars of marriage.

Tula Oblast Death & Burial Records

Russian Lutheran Church Books (1833-1885)

An index to and images of books recording the baptism, marriage and burial of around 1 million people. The records cover people of German extraction.

Jewish Online Worldwide Burial Registry (1550-Present)

A searchable database of over 1 million Jewish burials with photographs of the matzevot.

Russia Death & Burial Index (1815-1917)

An index of around 100,000 death and burial records. The index may include names of relatives and details of the death.

Newspapers Covering Tula Oblast

Name Card Index to AP Stories (1905-1990)

An index to over 2.1 million people mentioned in Associated Press stories, including name, subject, location, date and a reference to the article.

Subject Card Index to AP Stories (1937-1985)

An index to around 500,000 Associated Press articles.

AP Stories & Newsfeatures (1937-1985)

An index to and digital images of hundreds-of-thousands of world newspaper articles.

Tula Oblast Immigration & Travel Records

Irish Famine Immigrants (1846-1851)

A record of over 600,000 immigrants arriving in the United States; being predominantly those escaping the Irish famine. Records may contain numerous useful details, such as age or year of birth, native county and intended destination.

Swedish Emigration Records (1783-1951)

Abstracts of details found in passenger lists, passport records, correspondence and seaman records, which may list name, age, gender, birthplace, occupation, residence, destination, emigration date and more. Most passengers were traveling to North America.

Germans from Russia Obituaries (1899-2012)

Indexed images of over 400,000 obituaries of Germans from Russia who died in North America.

Russians to America Index (1834-1897)

Transcripts of passenger lists recording over 500,000 Russians who arrived in New York. Includes ages, birthplaces and other details.

Tula Oblast Military Records

Prisoners of War (1715-1945)

An index to and images records detailing the incarceration of 1.34 million military personnel, civilians, diplomats, missionaries & merchant seamen who were held as prisoners of war. The records cover British prisoners held by foreign powers and non-British prisoners held by Britain.

Holocaust Victims Testimonials (1942-1951)

Created by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II to document German crimes during the occupation, the Soviet Extraordinary Commission compiled testimonial information gathered from the evidence of neighbors, eyewitnesses, and survivors.

US State Department Records for Russia (1930-1939)

Official reports relating activities of American interest in the Soviet Union, prior to World War II, including accounts of conferences, communist activities, living conditions, oil interests, trade unions, the railway, and collective farms. Other countries, including Germany and China are featured in some of the correspondence.

Tula Oblast Directories & Gazetteers

CIA World Factbook (1994)

A statistic and descriptive gazetteer of nations.

World Foreign Gazetteer (1998)

Useful for locating places, this searchable gazetteer gives brief details, latitude and longitude for more than 1.5 million features, places and regions throughout the world.

Tula Oblast Cemeteries

Billion Graves (1200-Present)

Photographs and transcriptions of millions of gravestones from cemeteries around the world.

Tula Oblast Obituaries

Germans from Russia Obituaries (1899-2012)

Indexed images of over 400,000 obituaries of Germans from Russia who died in North America.

Tula Oblast Histories & Books

Ancestry Member Stories (6000 BC-Present)

Over 7 million remembrances and historic details submitted by Ancestry members. Useful for local historians.

Ancestry Member Photos & Documents (6000 BC-Present)

Over 60 million historic photographs and documents submitted to Ancestry. This rich collection contains many rare sources of interest to local historians and will be relevant to most genealogical research.

Holocaust Victims Testimonials (1942-1951)

Created by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II to document German crimes during the occupation, the Soviet Extraordinary Commission compiled testimonial information gathered from the evidence of neighbors, eyewitnesses, and survivors.

US State Department Records for Russia (1930-1939)

Official reports relating activities of American interest in the Soviet Union, prior to World War II, including accounts of conferences, communist activities, living conditions, oil interests, trade unions, the railway, and collective farms. Other countries, including Germany and China are featured in some of the correspondence.

Tula Oblast Occupation & Business Records

Cricket Archive (1844-Present)

A database of cricket scores and players.

Pedigrees & Family Trees Covering Tula Oblast

FamilySearch Community Trees (6000 BC-Present)

A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.

Lineages of Medieval Russian Nobility (860-1600)

The lineages of Russian royalty and nobility, with biographical details and extracts from historic documents.

Ancestry Member Family Trees (6000 BC-Present)

A compilation of lineage-linked family trees submitted by Ancestry users. The database contains over 2 billion individuals and is searchable by numerous metrics.

Genealogics (1400 BC-Present)

A searchable database of linked families. It largely covers royalty and nobility, but also contains actors, footballers and American presidents.

Ancestry World Tree (6000 BC-1997)

A collection of legacy trees submitted by Ancestry users containing nearly 400 million individuals.

Tula Oblast Royalty, Nobility & Heraldry Records

FamilySearch Community Trees (6000 BC-Present)

A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.

Lineages of Medieval Russian Nobility (860-1600)

The lineages of Russian royalty and nobility, with biographical details and extracts from historic documents.

Genealogics (1400 BC-Present)

A searchable database of linked families. It largely covers royalty and nobility, but also contains actors, footballers and American presidents.

Tula Oblast Church Records

Russian Lutheran Church Books (1833-1885)

An index to and images of books recording the baptism, marriage and burial of around 1 million people. The records cover people of German extraction.

Tula Oblast Maps

Old Maps Online (1497-2010)

An interactive index to thousands of maps covering the world, continents, countries and regions. The majority of maps cover Britain and Ireland.

Tula Oblast Reference Works

Dictionary of Jewish Surnames in Russian Empire (1500-1900)

A work which list the history and etymology of Jewish surnames found in the Ukraine, Belorussia, Bessarabia, Lithuania, and Russia.

Jewish Name Database (1400-Present)

A database containing variants of 100,000s of given names used by Jews.

Most Common Surnames in Tula Oblast

RankSurnameIncidenceFrequencyPercent of ParentRank in Russia
1Ivanov7,3151:2160.83%2
2Novikov7,1171:2223.46%24
3Novikova7,1151:2222.76%13
4Ivanova6,7171:2350.72%1
5Kuznetsov6,3221:2501.45%4
6Kuznetsova6,2581:2531.38%3
7Zhukova6,1221:2585.59%84
8Simonova4,5331:3499.21%301
9Loseva4,2071:37621.05%930
10Volkova3,8811:4071.28%12
11Medvedeva3,6881:4292.97%69
12Morozova3,6291:4361.51%14
13Ovchinnikov3,5161:4505.88%231
14Sidorova3,4821:4543.52%102
15Makarova3,3961:4661.66%25
16Leonova3,3221:4766.26%273
17Popov3,2641:4840.89%10
18Petrov3,2461:4870.76%5
19Volkov3,2411:4881.48%18
20Kozlov3,1351:5041.90%43
21Guseva3,1301:5053.06%97
22Andrianova3,1251:50613.49%779
23Romanova3,0221:5231.36%17
24Romanov2,9561:5351.65%34
25Kozlova2,9441:5371.70%39
26Safronova2,9111:5436.38%335
27Morozov2,8651:5521.47%26
28Popova2,8071:5630.77%11
29Sokolova2,7621:5721.20%15
30Orlova2,7301:5791.78%51
30Shabanov2,7301:57910.94%725
30Smirnova2,7301:5790.64%6
33Zaytsev2,7131:5831.87%55
34Borisova2,5951:6091.88%61
35Khruscheva2,5811:61386.23%6,371
36Tamilin2,5781:61385.53%6,329
37Babonin2,5761:61497.17%7,114
38Makarov2,4991:6331.41%36
39Sokolov2,4961:6331.34%30
40Frolova2,4771:6381.61%50
41Zakharova2,4351:6491.36%35
42Borisov2,4291:6512.04%75
43Petrukhina2,4071:65730.16%2,540
44Smirnov2,4031:6580.66%9
45Sergeeva2,3801:6641.26%27
46Zaytseva2,3791:6651.27%29
47Andreeva2,3761:6651.10%20
48Stepanova2,3581:6711.34%37
49Petrova2,3541:6720.61%8
50Nikitina2,3511:6731.36%40
51Bobrova2,3191:6827.19%523
52Polyakova2,2971:6882.07%82
53Egorov2,2841:6921.35%42
54Egorova2,2741:6951.33%41
55Glushchenko2,2151:71413.46%1,158
56Frolov2,2111:7151.63%64
57Orlov2,1981:7191.56%58
58Tarasov2,1951:7202.03%86
59Zakharov2,1891:7221.41%48
60Stepanov2,1801:7251.35%45
61Andreev2,1261:7441.33%46
62Nikitin2,1051:7511.44%54
63Melnikov2,0981:7542.22%112
64Zhukov2,0901:7572.19%109
65Kotova2,0801:7601.47%57
66Vasileva2,0071:7880.96%22
67Mironova1,9451:8131.41%62
68Shorina1,9371:81631.70%3,340
69Tarasova1,9321:8181.66%77
70Moiseev1,9141:8263.64%275
71Malakhin1,9061:83087.19%8,560
72Tamozhnik1,8981:83398.19%9,555
73Polyakov1,8431:8582.12%134
74Matveev1,8351:8621.85%100
75Koroleva1,8001:8782.46%181
76Antonov1,7871:8851.62%83
77Kuzmina1,7851:8861.32%65
78Sidorov1,7641:8961.65%87
78Vasilev1,7641:8960.83%21
80Denisov1,7411:9082.45%184
81Grishin1,7281:9153.93%350
82Belov1,7121:9241.40%71
83Medvedev1,7081:9261.19%56
84Baranov1,7061:9272.05%144
85Mironov1,7031:9281.64%91
86Pavlova1,6841:9390.75%16
87Titova1,6791:9421.91%129
88Matveeva1,6721:9461.46%79
89Filatov1,6631:9512.35%185
90Ermakov1,6391:9652.69%225
91Melnikova1,6221:9751.40%78
92Antonova1,6131:9801.31%70
92Grishina1,6131:9803.18%291
94Abramova1,6121:9811.70%110
94Nikolaeva1,6121:9810.90%33
96Abramov1,5901:9941.94%148
97Pavlov1,5851:9980.84%28
97Sergeev1,5851:9981.06%52
99Baranova1,5841:9981.81%132
100Sorokin1,5821:9991.60%101
101Klimov1,5811:1,0002.86%259
102Denisova1,5761:1,0031.81%133
103Filatova1,5721:1,0062.10%176
104Sviridov1,5651:1,0105.51%621
105Isaeva1,5521:1,0191.81%136
106Isaev1,5131:1,0451.47%95
107Fomina1,5041:1,0511.76%137
108Danilov1,5031:1,0521.69%126
109Yakovleva1,5021:1,0530.96%47
109Zotov1,5021:1,0534.98%559
111Nikolaev1,5001:1,0540.92%44
111Sorokina1,5001:1,0541.45%94
113Konovalov1,4881:1,0632.10%183
114Martynov1,4731:1,0732.50%236
115Komarova1,4611:1,0822.11%189
116Nazarov1,4551:1,0871.86%160
117Gusev1,4451:1,0941.61%125
118Komarov1,4281:1,1072.28%215
119Leonov1,4261:1,1093.16%340
120Titov1,4231:1,1111.71%143
121Ermakova1,4211:1,1131.86%170
122Kotov1,4061:1,1251.39%99
123Sviridova1,3951:1,1334.27%514
124Nazarova1,3881:1,1391.49%118
125Rodionova1,3701:1,1542.34%237
126Moiseeva1,3641:1,1592.44%255
127Gerasimova1,3451:1,1761.76%171
128Belova1,3391:1,1810.97%59
129Sukharev1,3331:1,1867.04%994
130Semyonov1,2801:1,2351.42%124
131Davydova1,2791:1,2361.48%135
132Yakovlev1,2761:1,2391.00%67
133Maksimov1,2711:1,2441.56%151
134Kuzmin1,2701:1,2450.99%66
135Kalinina1,2681:1,2471.35%113
136Karpov1,2601:1,2551.37%120
137Kazakov1,2481:1,2671.67%177
138Mikhaylova1,2421:1,2730.59%23
139Fedotova1,2391:1,2761.58%158
139Knyazeva1,2391:1,2762.02%223
141Vlasova1,2361:1,2791.09%80
142Mikhaylov1,2221:1,2940.67%32
143Fomin1,2061:1,3111.48%152
144Eliseev1,2051:1,3122.83%368
145Aleksandrova1,2041:1,3131.17%92
146Chernykh1,2031:1,3141.62%179
147Lebedeva1,2001:1,3180.69%38
148Tikhonova1,1991:1,3191.49%153
149Danilova1,1831:1,3371.16%98
149Filippova1,1831:1,3371.13%89
151Prokhorov1,1761:1,3442.67%348
152Efimova1,1651:1,3571.43%149
153Shevchenko1,1641:1,3580.53%19
154Tikhonov1,1631:1,3601.66%187
155Semenova1,1611:1,3620.99%76
156Chernov1,1521:1,3721.49%167
156Kazakova1,1521:1,3721.19%107
158Lebedev1,1481:1,3770.94%72
159Rodionov1,1471:1,3782.24%287
160Eliseeva1,1431:1,3832.63%358
161Semyonova1,1401:1,3871.30%131
162Efremov1,1381:1,3891.77%202
163Soboleva1,1371:1,3912.06%260
164Panov1,1351:1,3932.61%357
165Kalinin1,1341:1,3941.45%159
166Davydov1,1281:1,4021.71%198
167Maksimova1,1211:1,4101.14%104
168Akimova1,1171:1,4152.85%414
169Vlasov1,1161:1,4171.26%127
170Kulikova1,1151:1,4181.23%121
171Korolev1,1141:1,4192.51%344
172Emelyanova1,1081:1,4271.94%245
173Larina1,1071:1,4282.80%407
174Filippov1,1061:1,4301.26%130
175Zotova1,1011:1,4362.52%355
176Fyodorov1,0991:1,4391.24%128
177Afonina1,0931:1,4475.19%871
178Osipova1,0861:1,4561.15%114
179Savina1,0811:1,4632.03%269
180Lazareva1,0781:1,4671.78%228
181Mishin1,0741:1,4723.60%572
182Semenov1,0691:1,4791.10%106
183Ovchinnikova1,0681:1,4801.55%190
184Arkhipov1,0671:1,4822.20%307
185Korolyova1,0651:1,4852.00%270
186Prokhorova1,0641:1,4862.37%342
187Potapova1,0631:1,4871.59%197
188Klimova1,0591:1,4931.55%192
189Shcherbakov1,0431:1,5162.02%282
189Ushakova1,0431:1,5162.06%293
191Safonova1,0401:1,5202.34%345
192Naumova1,0391:1,5221.49%188
193Kharitonov1,0371:1,5252.53%386
194Fyodorova1,0321:1,5321.22%140
195Arkhipova1,0271:1,5401.61%206
196Gerasimov1,0261:1,5411.51%193
197Voronina1,0221:1,5471.71%232
198Karpova1,0191:1,5521.10%117
199Gavrilova1,0181:1,5531.31%164
199Konovalova1,0181:1,5531.31%163