World is getting crazy about football!

Posted by rusgen
On May 29, 2018

When you see genealogy sites advertise services related to FIFA World Soccer Cup, we think we should not miss this opportunity to say that many years ago your ancestors probably played football/soccer too. Those picture from the 1930s Shanghai. Russian team “Sokol 1” plays on the Race Course. You can search the “Russians in China” […]

Posted by rusgen
On April 7, 2018

While travelling around the old trading town of Kainsk, established 1722, we found the unusual monument. It is located near the “Old” local cemetery on the outskirts of the town. This is the monument to Kainsk residents who died in WW2. What is unusual is that it was built by the local resident, private person, not […]

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On March 20, 2018

Last week we found documents about Siberian imprisonment in 1870s; rural life in Ukraine in 1912; Jewish life in Odessa in 1890s; military service in Soviet Army in 1930s; white Russians immigration in 1920s in Serbia and China. Need something like that from that part of the world? Just let us know, we will tell […]

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On February 9, 2018

We are looking for information to solve the puzzle of the Russian family which spent some time in Slovenia during WW2 then joined the Русский Корпус and then moved with the majority of this detachment to Paterson NJ, changing their identities in the process. If you know someone who might have the knowledge of “korpusnik” […]

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On January 29, 2018

#Russian #Refugees. It was a forgotten story, 5000 Russians spend several years on the #Phillippines island Tubabao in 1949-1953 (more details in Russian here). “What do I get today?” asks this small boy looking into his daily food ration. We have found a small trove of unknown photos in the US National Archive (College Park, […]

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On October 10, 2016
Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy

Recently visited Riga historical archive and about 6 local cemeteries near Panevezys, Lithuania. Fully documented relatives for the passport citizenship application. Looks like the family (which we traced in Ekaterinburg archives early this year) could be traced back to 1686 in Vilnius archive…

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On March 3, 2016
Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy

We are on Telegram. Ask your questions here: telegram.me/genealogy

Posted by rusgen
On February 6, 2016

We spent several days and were able to successfully locate the picture of the Russian painter, presented to Isabel II of Spain in 1860, inventoried in 1870 and never seen since then. The Patrimonio National employees helped us to find the record for it and then we were allowed to actually visit underground storage vaults […]

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On July 22, 2015

My current research project is to identify the persons, who reportedly were serving at the Bronenosets Potemkin at the time of mutiny in 1905. Photo was reportedly taken in US, and has no markings of names our anything else. Persons pictured are in usual civil attire. Found out that the authoritative list of sailors was […]

Posted by rusgen
On May 10, 2014

This was recently seen at the Central Archives of Ministry of Defence in Podolsk, near Moscow. They are building new archival storage, a lot of it.

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World is getting crazy about football!

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Tubabao. Introduction.

Latvia / Lithuania research trip

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