Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Posted by rusgen
On December 25, 2016
2016, 2017, congratulations, Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy

We wish to thank everyone who asked us complicated questions last year and hope you will come back with more unsolvable puzzles. We hope your families will be safe and well in this coming year. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone 🙂 –Yours Historical detectives

Posted by rusgen
On November 5, 2016
1848, 1878, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Galicia, Ivano-Frankivsk, maps, Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy, Ukraine

Did you ever wondered why we call our research “puzzle solving” ? Look at those pictures. It is the same Galician village, part of Austro-Hungarian Empire until 1918, now in Ukraine, mapped in 1848 and in 1878. We are looking for a couple of particular house numbers. Does it look like a puzzle?? And why […]

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On October 29, 2016
Greece, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kiev, Lviv, Moscow, Odessa, Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy, Ufa

We are looking now for the history of yet another family which emigrated from the former Russian empire to the North America. So far the research plan consists of visiting archives of Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv Historical, Odessa in Ukraine; Russian State archive (Moscow), Moscow city archive, Bashkortostan archive (Ufa); checking Greece-related records in several Russian archives, […]

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On September 8, 2016
1960s, communist, ekaterinburg, modern, party, Russia, Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy

I recently went to this standard archival building in this part of the world (note those small windows which usually covered with dark glass): It houses the former Sverdlovsk Communist party archive (currently titled “Center of the documentation of public organisations” The place has a very large holdings of 1950s-1990s history of the […]

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On March 11, 2016
Dustin Hoffman, Finding Your Roots, Henry Louis Gates, Hoffman, PBS

Where is Dustih Hoffman, Hollywood movie star, and where are we, humble historic researchers, you may ask? We helped the PBS Finding Your Roots to locate and document details of Dustin’s grandfather’s life and death in Bela Tserkva, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). We researched this part of his family tree: And found this newspaper with […]

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On February 23, 2016
Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy

We are frequently asked to trace families of Russians from Harbin and other Chinese locations related to the КВЖД — China Eastern Railroad. The book we published — Russians in China. Genealogical index (1926-1946) — is a good place to start your research. We are having an exciting case with documents flowing in from Khabarovsk archive, Russian […]

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On October 6, 2015
Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy

We will be giving the talk on October 24th at the “Nashi Predky-Our Ancestors” Fall 2015 Conference in the Ukrainian Cultural Center Somerset, NJ. Please feel free to join this event, we expect this to be very informative and exciting conference. The title of our speech is Tracing heirs through Ukrainian archives: Detective stories of metrical records and censuses. […]

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On August 8, 2015
Archive, archives, Chernivtsi, Rivne, Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy, Ukraine, WWII, Zdolbuniv

We did research with WWII residence lists in Zdolbuniv, Riwne oblast, Ukraine. This is the local archive building: And the nice and very helpful archive personnel with our senior researcher: The arrow on the following photo shows where you should go to find the vital records archive in Chernivtsi. We have been to […]

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On April 6, 2015
1825, archives, books, Russian Empire

Just returned from Crimea archives. Simferopol and Kertch. Catching small pieces of puzzles here and there, with some successes. Archives are not computerized, but the people there is friendly and helpful. They are currently digitizing the Crimea 1921 census sheets, look for them to be digitally available in a few months from now. Seen the […]

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On March 9, 2015
archives, Engels, Germans, Russia, Saratov, Wolga, Wolgadeutgsche

We have recently visited Saratov and Engelsh archives, on two shores of Volga river. State Historical Archive of Wolga Germans in Engels meet us very friendly and helpfully. Will return there shortly.

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Real Puzzle

New project

Party archive

Finding Your Roots S03E10 Dustin Hoffman

China Eastern Rairoad

If you want to meet us in person…

A few summer archive trips

March Archive Roundup

Saratov and Engels