Medal Strips

Posted by rusgen
On October 23, 2018

Have you ever seen something like that on photos of your ancestors? This could be important lead in otherwise dead end search. This is medal strips, used instead of large decorations on everyday uniform. As of today, you could theoretically spot approximately 10,000 in todays Russian-speaking land. This could be an important lead in your […]

Posted by rusgen
On October 9, 2018

This is a plain old 1905 marriage record in the currently Polish city of Bialystok. Although it is now Poland, the records before 1918 were kept in Russian language. We can read records on all European languages. Need help with some strange handwriting? Feel something elusive is in the old unreadable handwriting? Let us […]

Medal Strips

Sample old record