Alaska church records
On Alaska church records what does S. U. stand for and under what category do these kind of records go under?
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Alaska church records are generally from Russian Orthodox Catholic church, and I don't know what the S. U. stands for but apparently SU is not indexed anywhere that I can see. Project Instructions does have a list of abbreviations needed for indexing these records
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As with other questions on abbreviations used in this batch, it is rather down to context. Where are the initials found: after a person's name / against a place name? The mention the Russian Orthodox church would put "Soviet Union" as a possibility here, but that would depend on the time period in question (used, I believe, only between 1922 and 1991 for the country with that name).
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No I don't believe its Soviet Union, these are Alaska church records regardless of whether Alaska was a territory belonging to the U.S. or the USSR.
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No part of Alaska ever belonged to the USSR.
Per Wikipedia, Alaska was:
"Russian America" 1784-1867
Department of Alaska 1867-1884
District of Alaska 1884-1912
Territory of Alaska 1912-1959
State of Alaska 1959-todayThe Soviet Union existed between 1922 and 1991 and never had any territory east of the Pacific Ocean.
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Please read my comments carefully:
As with other questions on abbreviations used in this batch, it is rather down to context. Where are the initials found….?
As I do not have access to this batch, and the OP does not say where he is seeing this "S.U.", I had assumed this just might relate to a place of birth.* Of course I am totally aware that the Soviet Union never had any jurisdiction over any part of Alaska - what part of my post suggests I had that idea?
As with my response on another thread relating to the batch, I was making light-hearted suggestions, partly in an attempt to show that without an OP giving further detail, conjecture is going to be inevitable: even if responses are then way off the mark!
*I do see the batch heading suggests coverage of the period 1816-1970, so a Soviet Union birthplace could be possible. However, I'm sorry for commenting without knowing the exact detail of the fields in this batch, which might not even include places of birth.
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I don't know what exactly "S. U." stands for but it is being used as a "see also" to direct the reader to the entry for the second person which is then a marriage record entry. I have been using the "marriage" record to record these using the first name as the principal name and the second name after the "S. U." as the spouse name.
I figured this out by going to the catalog on FS and looking for Alaska Russian Orthodox records and doing some cross-referencing.
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There was another thread about this project where we figured out that S.U. in these records is usually short for "See Under".
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