Welcome

Posted by rusgen
On February 27, 2018
archives, Belarus, Galicia, Genealogy, Jewish, Kiev, Lviv, Odessa, Russia, Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy, Ukraine, WWII

Thank you for coming to our web site. We are the small team of genealogists and archival researchers specializing in Ukrainian, Jewish, Russian, Polish and other Eastern European family history. We are based in Russia, Ukraine and Poland. (read more) We visit different archives every week. Please browse our blog entries below for more details. […]

New book coming out soon

Posted by rusgen
On January 21, 2024

Dear Reader,We work hard to make the second edition of the 2014 book “Russians in China: Genealogical Index” into the print book and a database real soon now. Please stay tuned – there will be almost double number of records, and many many names which were “not found” earlier. We are indexing several major sources […]

Posted by rusgen
On January 3, 2023
1930s, Geneve, Nansen

Just found, by chance, that United Nations Archive in Geneve digitized and made available online the files of the former Nansen office of refugees, which dealt with, among others, with problems of Russian refugees in China. The site is archives.ungeneva.org Keyword search works. As an added feature, they have plenty of maps of the area, […]

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 November 2, 2022
archives, leningrad, personal data, privacy, residents lists, Soviet

I was asked several times about the sources on residents of St Petersbourg / Leningrad, of the USSR times (1917-2000). If you are a direct blood relative, or someone with the notarized power of attorney from direct blood relative (with the documents showing those relations) — you can get births/marriages/deaths for all deceased relatives — […]

New Year Genealogy online event

Posted by rusgen
On December 14, 2021
event, forensic, genexpo, Moscow, Russia

New Year is coming to genealogists as well 🙂 I will be speaking at Genexpo online fest this coming Saturday at 18:00 Moscow time. It will be a live stream, with questions and answers from Mr Vitaly Semenov. I will be speaking about the rare field of forensic genealogy in Russia. The event will be […]

Posted by rusgen
On December 4, 2021
1979, communist party, Komsomolskaya Pravda, polar expedition, rgani, Soviet, USSR

I would like to share the small finding we have last week. The task was to confirm or deny the story that while the ski expedition to the North Pole from USSR in 1979 was tracking the polar ice, there was a heated discussion in the higher places on whether they should be allowed to […]

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 April 30, 2021
2021, conference, Genealogy, gentech, Russian

We spoke at GenTech online genealogy forum, we helped a bit with it in other ways. They sent their thank-you note, which I include below.

Posted by rusgen
On April 20, 2021
Gentech 2021 international research panel discussion

We have been invited to speak about the international archival searches for the audience of GenTech online genealogical show ( https://genealogicalforum.ru/ ). Kirill Chashchin was a moderator of the panel discussion and Olexa Balyura spoke about the archival research in Ukraine and other bordering regions. Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbftThYWJrQ

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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Blog

Welcome

New book coming out soon

More 1930s Chinese Refugees documentation online

The Christmas Story

St Petersbourg 20th century residents

New Year Genealogy online event

Legend confirmed. Research time: year and a half.

August Research Roundup

Gentech 2021 says Thanks

Talking at the #GENTECH

Archives re-opening