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And sometimes there’s no catch in archives

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On March 18, 2012
  • China, fish, Macao
Only those nice fish pictures were the result of our research trip to Macao… [singlepic id=293 w=320 h=240 float=] [singlepic id=292 w=320 h=240 float=] [singlepic id=291 w=320 h=240 float=]
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Cracking difficult cases

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On March 14, 2012
  • DAKO, Kiev, Ukraine, work
Olexa Balyura at work at the Kiev Archive cracking another  complicated case. [singlepic id=281 w=320 h=240 float=] [singlepic id=280 w=320 h=240 float=]  
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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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Where Grandparents lived and I was born

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On January 29, 2012
  • old moscow, photos, марьина роща
This blog has plenty of old pictures of Moscow. The two pages below has a lot of photos of the exact place I was born, went to school, and spent first 9 years of life — http://dedushkin1.livejournal.com/562890.html and http://dedushkin1.livejournal.com/475076.html You may not be able to read texts, but should be able to get the feeling […]
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The book: Basics of Russian Clerical Work – Weldbrecht 1854 [Russian language]

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On January 20, 2012
  • 1854, books, bureaucracy, library, rules
We have obtained the old book describing the basic concepts of record-keeping and clerical work 155 years ago. Some things do change, some stay the same. Enjoy. Bibliography quote: Вельдбрехт, Валериан Никитич. Общие основания русского делопроизводства с приложением основных его форм / Соч. В. Вельдбрехта. – Санкт-Петербург : тип. Я. Трея, 1854. – 120, II […]
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Another archive – Cherkassy

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On January 12, 2012
  • Archive, Cherkassy, Kanev, Smela
We has been to Cherkassy State Historical Archive today. Consulted  several microfilmed and original books of vital records for city of Kanev and city of Smela (1890s-1910s). Found a number of original records for Kanev and nothing relevant for Smela. Saying many thanks for archive personnel. A few sample records will be added to the […]
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Pictures from different archives

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On December 31, 2011
  • archives, pictures, scans
Here are a few pictures from last months of archive research.  Mostly Kiev and Zhitomir archives [imagebrowser id=1]
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