The Christmas Story

Posted by rusgen
On December 22, 2022
2023, advances, Merry Christmas, new year, no borders, science

A client came to us here the other day. A few years ago, a good genealogist made a detailed study of him, but it hit a brick wall because the birthplace of the ancestors of the Moscow family from the Baltic could not be established. The client turned to several other genealogists, but did not […]

Posted by rusgen
On September 4, 2021
family history, France, Germany, probate, Russia, Ukraine

We have been working a lot in the last month of 2021 summer.

Posted by rusgen
On February 6, 2021
archives, covid, Poland, reopening, Russia, Ukraine

Archives in our part of the word started to re-open after the COVID. While the “epidemic situation” takes its toll, here is the short update on what is open. Ukrainian archives had a carantine and reopened on January 25th, 2021. The number of persons in the research room is limited and you need. Polish archives […]

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On December 22, 2020
20th century, Africa, Brazzaville, Colonial, Congo, Genealogy, Historical

Colonial Africa research turned out to be the complicated thing. I really feel myself as an archeologist unearthing the very scarce evidence of the civilization which is lond dead and disappeared. First, I should start with the small historical background. The pre-1880 Africa was really not very well researched. Those “white spots” on maps were […]

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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 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 October 21, 2017
archives, Genealogy, Heroldy, RGIA, Russia, Russian Empire, Russian Family History, Russian Genealogy, Ukraine

Do you know that the nobility files of the former Russian empire could be found not only in the region where the noble person lived, but also in one centralized place? It was called Heroldy Department of the Governing Senate (Департамент герольдии Правительствующего Сената), it was the highest office to finally approve (or reject) nobility […]

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On September 5, 2017
Belarus, Genealogy, Kiev, Lviv, Minsk, Russia, Russian Family History, Russian Genealogy, Ukraine

We were in National Historical Archive of Belarus and in State Archive of Zhitomir region last week, researching two complicated Jewish genealogy cases. Our other research geography of the last week was as wide, from Baltics to Siberia: Please let us know where we can help you with your historical research.

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The Christmas Story

August Research Roundup

Archives re-opening

Searching for a German in Colonial Africa

Imagine yourself living in 1938 North China

Polish Research Discount

New Book Published

Origins of word – Genocide

Russian Nobility and Polish Szlachta

Recent Research – August-September 2017