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 November 19, 2018

1830s copy of the 1713 document in the nobility case, found during the recent visit to the Russian State Historical Archive (St Petersbourg, Russia). It was customary to provide the tree to the noblest available ancestor to get privileges. Need to find something similar? Just ask us!

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On November 1, 2018

We will be performing the on-site research at the International Tracing Service archives in Bad Arolsen, Germany next week. If you have any relatives imprisonned or displaced during or shortly after WW2 — this is the best place to try to trace them. Call us now to get the special price on this very effective […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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On September 29, 2018

Fall is here, it rains outside, and it is just about right time to start you genealogy quest. Sometimes people ask us what is the best way to start. Here it is — take a cup of your favorite drink, a pen or pencil, print a form or two (this Fan Chart, free and […]

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On September 25, 2018
1930, Archive, census, Ukraine

This is the Czech census form we found this month. Please note that it is in Czech, Hungarian and Russian(Rusin) languages. It was common in the Transcarpatian region to have documents in all those languages, frequently all at the same time. We found a few gems in those documents for our client, we can do […]

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On September 2, 2018

As many local archives reopen after the vacations and slow summer schedules, we plan to visit Belarus and Uzhgorod (Ukraine) in this coming week. Do you have something to research in those areas? We offer the 20% discount for the future research paid during this Labor Day week. Do not lose the chance to get […]

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On August 26, 2018

I would like to share the researcher’s disappointing moment. You must know that we are not 100% lucky with finding what we are tasked to find… We found six notepads, filled with the careful handwriting, which turned out to be memoirs of the officer about the WW1, ending in 1914… The last notepad had the […]

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