Imagine yourself living in 1938 North China

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On April 30, 2020
1939, anketa, brem, China, harbin, immigrants, Manchu, questionnaire, Russia

To be able to get out of town (Harbin), you need to be registered with the BREM, Bureau on the affairs of Russian Emigrants in Manjuria. And you need to fill in the very detailed questionnaire. Below is the translation of what they asked the resident. 9 pages. Some questions might seem unfamiliar for the […]

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On November 24, 2018
1939, books, Gulag, history, prison, Soviet, top secret

Current reading: top-secret 1939 book titled “Тюремное дело”, the manual on all aspects of running a prison, substantial part of the Soviet GULAG system. The book describes just about everything — from the types of locks on doors on solitary confinement, to the toys to be given to children born in prisons… Did your ancestors […]

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On June 9, 2018
1933, 1936, China, FIFA, Football, Genealogy, Russian, shanghai, Soccer

Russian Football team “Sokol 1” in 1933 after winning the 2nd league Junior cup of the Shanghai Football Association. You can search the “Russians in China” genealogical index for details on those and other emigrees, both related and not related to football. Need to find who of your relatives played along? Let us know! We can find your […]

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On June 1, 2018
1930s, 1936, FIFA, Football, Historical, shanghai, Soccer

We will publish small excerpts from the 1930s historical Shanghai book about the football. The most interesting sport in Shanghai, which always attracts hundreds and thousands of spectators, is certainly football, to which addicted are representatives of all nationalities living in Shanghai. Currently in Shanghai, in the Football League alone, there are over 50 teams […]

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On February 27, 2018
archives, Belarus, Galicia, Genealogy, Jewish, Kiev, Lviv, Odessa, Russia, Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy, Ukraine, WWII

Thank you for coming to our web site. We are the small team of genealogists and archival researchers specializing in Ukrainian, Jewish, Russian, Polish and other Eastern European family history. We are based in Russia, Ukraine and Poland. (read more) We visit different archives every week. Please browse our blog entries below for more details. […]

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On February 23, 2018
Archive, Galicia, Genealogy, Poland, Polish Family History, Polska, Research, Ukraine

We can help you with your Polish research. Missing relatives with Polish surnames? Old handwriting only grandma could read? We are a small and determined team which does online and field research in Poland and Ukraine, visiting archives, libraries, offices, talking to old people in villages — all to find your missing ancestral links. We […]

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On January 10, 2018
books, China, Russian Empire, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy, WWII

We have a small addition to our large index of Russians in China. The complete transcript of applications for the positions in the Russian Regiments in Shanghai in 1930s-1940s ( Russians in China. Shanghai D-917 Police Applicants: 1930-1942 ISBN: 978-1936531165) is published and available on Amazon and all major booksellers. It contains detailed biographies (in English) […]

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On December 15, 2017
1900, Belarus, books, Jewish, Russian Genealogist, Volkovysk

I never thought that the word Genocide has its author, that it was invented by the particular human being with the birth date (June 24, 1900) and name (Rafał), and that this word is less than 100 years old… It is always very much inspiring to know that just inventing a word for something creates […]

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On November 17, 2017
books, China, global, library, Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy

Did you ever thought how difficult it is to search for the female relatives? Here is an example. Our colleague has recently gave the presentation on his experience tracing the artwork provenance of several portraits by Mikhail Verboff (1896-1996). Look at the attached picture. Two sisters (lower right corner). One have four last names from […]

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On October 22, 2016
1930s, 1950s, GARF, passport, Research, Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy, USSR

We have completed the research and found out how the letters in the Soviet passports (and удостоверения личности, personal IDs, and in ZAGS birth certificates) were assigned over the most part of the XX century. A couple of months of fruitless archival research finally brought some Real Historical Gems. It turned out that the 1974 […]

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Imagine yourself living in 1938 North China

Tyuremnoe Delo

Shanghai Football club “Sokol” 1933

Football in Shanghai in 1930s – post 1

Welcome

Polish Research Discount

New Book Published

Origins of word – Genocide

Two females, ten last names

Soviet Passports and IDs (1927-1999)