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.

Posted by rusgen
On March 24, 2018
1854, archives, Criminals, GARF, RSL, Russia, Russian Empire, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy, Siberia, Ukraine

Nerchinsk Mining District (Нерченский Горный Округ) was from the 1747 the private property of Russian Royal family, located in Eastern Siberia, current part of Chita region It was the silver and gold mines for the Royal family. 92000 square miles of harsh Siberian taiga. Why we are interested in this place? Because it was where […]

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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. […]

Posted by rusgen
On January 20, 2018
archives, bureaucracy, pictures, rules, Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, WWII

Did you ever found that documents about your family history are “Confidential” or “Classified”? Does it means you have no chances to see it? Definitely NO. During last month we have reviewed documents like the one above in US, UK and Russian archives, were able to remove classification in UK file we needed, filed a […]

Posted by rusgen
On January 8, 2018
archives, Genealogy, Kiev, Russia, Russian Genealogist, WWII

Last week we continued to work on the complicated case of WW2 displaced persons. We searched in US National Archives, US, in St Petersburg Historical archive, Russia, in Chernigov regional archive, Ukraine. Small pieces of complicated puzzle we have on hand start to group into something meaningful, and we hope we will be able to […]

Posted by rusgen
On December 27, 2017
2018, China, new year, Poland, Russia, Sale, Ukraine

Dear Reader, Thank you for visiting this small web page of the small research company. You might be looking for the gifts ideas — here is one: 50% off digital historical research in Russia, Poland, Ukraine, if booked before 1 January 2018. E-mail us ([email protected]) with your historical puzzle asking to be solved. Old […]

Posted by rusgen
On December 1, 2017
Belarus, China, Genealogy, Jewish, Kiev, Odessa, Russian Empire, Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy, Ukraine, WWII

Maps… We love maps… Do you have the old map of the place where your ancestors lived? Are you certain you correctly identified the ancestral places in the foreign country? Do you have the strange placename you struggle to put on map? We have a lot of experience answering those kinds of questions. Actually, this […]

Posted by rusgen
On November 3, 2017
Belarus, Genealogy, geography, locations, maps, pictures, Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy, Ukraine, work

One of the complicated points of the research, even before you go to the archive, is to make sure you have the correct location. It is especially true if some migration was involved. In those cases people tend to forget exact details of their small villages where they were born and remember only the approximate […]

Posted by rusgen
On October 21, 2017
archives, Genealogy, Heroldy, RGIA, Russia, Russian Empire, Russian Family History, Russian Genealogy, Ukraine

Do you know that the nobility files of the former Russian empire could be found not only in the region where the noble person lived, but also in one centralized place? It was called Heroldy Department of the Governing Senate (Департамент герольдии Правительствующего Сената), it was the highest office to finally approve (or reject) nobility […]

Posted by rusgen
On September 5, 2017
Belarus, Genealogy, Kiev, Lviv, Minsk, Russia, Russian Family History, Russian Genealogy, Ukraine

We were in National Historical Archive of Belarus and in State Archive of Zhitomir region last week, researching two complicated Jewish genealogy cases. Our other research geography of the last week was as wide, from Baltics to Siberia: Please let us know where we can help you with your historical research.

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