Revision list

The lists were taken to account and register information to collect tax revenue to fund the Imperial Army.

The presence or absence of a person would appear in the supplemental registration, and would note status of people who had run off, been born, exiled, conscripted, or had died.

The revision lists often took many years to finalize due to the size and communicative distance of the Russian Empire.

[8] Some examples of exclusive races and classes include: The following is a general format of a revision list header with queries translated and summarized into English:[9] 18[XX] [Day] [Month] [Name of Governorate, District, Town] (Male on Left, Female on Right) The revision lists are a useful tool in Eastern European genealogy due a lack of records in comparison to many Western European nations, which had already had a long tradition of documentation for vital records and censuses prior to the first census in Russia.

Coverage, especially in the later censuses, was quite thorough, but many enumerated copies of the family lists from the revisions have been lost throughout history, and many recently due to fires in local archives.