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Sample old record

  • Posted by rusgen
  • 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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Where to start

  • Posted by rusgen
  • 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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Transcarpatian research

  • Posted by rusgen
  • 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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Travel Plans

  • Posted by rusgen
  • 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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Sometimes we are pessimistic…

  • Posted by rusgen
  • 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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New Tubabao Documents

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On August 20, 2018
  • 1949, 1950, 1951, China, emigration, russians, samar, tubabao
We have recently found in the ITS Bad Arolsen archive the complete list of people leaving Tubabao camp (Samar) in Philippines. We now have the 750 pages of lists and nominal rolls, some including the family members and address where they resettled. Get in touch with us is you need this file checked for the […]
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Summer research

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On August 10, 2018
  While for may persons the month of August means vacations and time away from work, historical detectives keep digging family history information from whatever place they can reach. During the last month we have been in four different regional archives in Ukraine, two in Germany, one in France, one in Poland, and one in […]
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Summer vacations

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On July 25, 2018
Many archives in Eastern Europe are closing for a few weeks in summer. Why? They don’t have enough staff to keep doors open when they have to give the obligatorily vacations to archivists… How we can help in this situation? Our small team is still around, answering your questions and providing information, day and night. […]
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Small successes

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On June 25, 2018
Client sent us the photo of the gravestone, taken in 1950s in a small Ukrainian village. We found it 60+ years later. Visited the place, spoken to local residents. Do you have similarly challenging tasks? Send them to us, we should be able to help you.
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Harbin Starts Football Season 1935

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On June 11, 2018
  • 1935, championship, China, FIFA, Football, harbin, history, Russia, Russian, socker
Today is the opening of football season – in Harbin, and in 1935. Today, the solemn opening of the football season will take place on the field of the hostel of the Manchurian Polytechnic. The celebration will be opened by the general parade of all teams, after which the greetings will be held, and then […]
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