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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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Jewish Genealogy Research – Odessa

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On October 28, 2017
  • archives, census, Jewish, Jewish Genealogy, Odessa, Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, Ukraine, WWII
100 years ago Odessa was the fourth largest city in Russian Empire (after Moscow, St Petersbourg, and Warsaw). As it was within the Pale of Settlement, it has the large Jewish population.  Another strange twist of the history is that a lot of Jewish records there survived the 1917 revolution, civil war, and the WWII.  […]
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Current Research Summer 2017

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On July 23, 2017
  • archives, bureaucracy, census, Genealogy, global, Gluckstal, Moldova, Odessa, PMR, Russian Family History, Russian Genealogy, Ukraine
We were asked to locate documents related to residents of the former German colony Gluckstal in Bessarabia. It is not an easy task to do, as those are spread across two (or three) different countries with different access rules. Here is the Google Map. The Red Mark is the actual location of Gluckstal , which, […]
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1897 Census – how it worked

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On March 13, 2012
  • 1897, census, form, Russian Empire, sample
The Russian Empire census was conducted in 1897. Original census sheets did not survived very well, but where they did, they give a very good glimpse on the life of people at the turn of the century… Last Century… Here we put four pages of the census sheet for you to have fun. Interest to […]
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Berdichev 1897 Census File covers

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On March 11, 2012
  • 1897, Berdichev, census, DAKO, Ukraine
The small addition to our collection of various archival file folders we have opened recently. This time it is State Archive of Kiev Region, original files of the 1897 Census. Interested? Let us know! [imagebrowser id=5]
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