The "Peasantry of Buryatia" Database as a Means to Restore Genealogies of Peasant Clans (Families): Case Studies of Mukhorshibirskoe and Tarbagataiskoe Societies (Districts) of Selenginskoe Voivodship / Verkhneudinsk District of the Irkutsk Province
The article considers historical sources from the State Archive of the Republic of Buryatia (GARB) which allow compiling an electronic database for the period of the late 17 <sup>th</sup> -early 19 <sup>th</sup> centuries in order to study the genealogical origins of peasants, townsmen, commoners and other pre-revolutionary estates living in the territory of today’s Buryatia.