Аннотация:The paper is devoted to the history of the four old believers’ religious groups of the South Vyatka: filippovtsy (divided in the XIX century into maxinertsy and shihalevtsy), fedoseevtsy and Pomorians. The author’s aim is to reconstruct the story of four families basing on the field notes, family synodiks, internet sources, etc. Genealogies provided in the application contain important information on the social and religious history of the region. They clearly depict the gender and age composition of the ethno-confessional communities for certain period, and demonstrate the mechanism of spiritual leadership transfer, the impact of important historical events on the lives of specific families, and communities. In addition, the obtained genealogies have a special epistemological value. In particular, in the future they may be used as the «key» identifying local religious figures whose names can be discovered in the newly found historical texts.