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Georgian Parish Registers1819–1930
An interactive map of parish registers: thousands of settlements and churches, colour categorisation by the book's start period, 10 km neighbourhood analysis, multilingual search.
Author
Vitalii Shtybin
Independent researcher · author at datatells.info
This map and its accompanying materials are an original work, protected by copyright.
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User guide for the map
All features, layers, the “Before / After” mode and where to find the original archive documents — in one short guide.
City focus
Map of Tbilisi churches
108 parishes of all confessions — Orthodox, Armenian, Catholic, Lutheran, Jewish, Molokan and more — with parish-register years, links to records in the National Historical Archive of Georgia and a search guide. Church points can be viewed on the old maps of Tiflis from 1898 and 1904.
Where the data comes from
All metric books on the map come from the National Historical Archive of Georgia (Tbilisi, 1 Vazha-Pshavela Ave). How to request documents and how the archive works — see the “Where to find documents?” section at the bottom of the map.
Map features
An overview of the interactive map. The tools themselves are available after opening it — the cards below are not clickable.
10 km radius analysis
Click a point — see all neighbouring parishes.
Colour by period
Okabe-Ito — a colour-blind-friendly palette.
Русский / English / ქართული
Switch language without reloading.
All map features
Every function is available right on the map. Below — what each does and why.
Multilingual search
Search settlements, churches, districts (uezds) and regions in Russian, English and Georgian at once. Partial matches work.
Period filter (colour legend)
Toggle record-start periods on/off by clicking a badge. Okabe-Ito palette — colour-blind-friendly.
10 km radius analysis
A button in the parish card highlights every parish within 10 km — useful when the book for your village did not survive.
Parish card
Settlement, church, district, region, years and gaps, coordinates, historical names, badges 'former' and 'possible match'.
Before / After mode
Switch between the source data and the curators' published edits. The number next to the button shows how many edits are applied.
Add settlement coordinates
The 'Add settlement coords' button opens settlements not yet located. You can propose coordinates manually or via OpenStreetMap — submissions go to moderation.
Missing-years correction
From the parish card — 'Suggest missing-years correction'. Your list joins the admin moderation queue.
Report a problem
Bottom-right button: a general form for bugs, typos, wrong coordinates and ideas. Contact info is optional.
Tbilisi tab + old maps
108 parishes of all confessions with direct links to the National Historical Archive of Georgia records. Old maps of Tiflis 1898 and 1904, adjustable opacity and a police-districts layer.
District / region highlight
Card buttons 'Highlight all points of district/region' help to see an entire administrative cluster.
Reset view and statistics
A button restoring the initial zoom and centre. Under the search bar — a counter of matches and overall data-coverage stats.
Embed on your site
The map can be embedded as an iframe (the '…/embed' URL) — auxiliary buttons hidden, but search, legend and point cards stay fully working.