Maps

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 26, 2017
antique, bureaucracy, Odessa, WW1

Sometimes you get a strange piece of bureaucratic tools and just cannot google it. I had one for a long while. It was a paper fastener, hundred-years-old. Found lying around in the old archive. I found some nice people who run the web site with all the old parafernalia, was unable to find anything like […]

Posted by rusgen
On November 17, 2017
books, China, global, library, Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy

Did you ever thought how difficult it is to search for the female relatives? Here is an example. Our colleague has recently gave the presentation on his experience tracing the artwork provenance of several portraits by Mikhail Verboff (1896-1996). Look at the attached picture. Two sisters (lower right corner). One have four last names from […]

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 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. […]

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 October 13, 2017
genealogyrocks, Russian Family History, Russian Genealogy

Our friend and partner, genealogyrocks.ru posts short videos about genealogy research in Russia. We mostly agree with what this young but experienced researcher is saying. Her videos have English subtitles, so even if you don’t quite know Russian, they could still be helpful. Her videos have English subtitles, so even if you don’t quite know […]

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.

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, […]

Posted by rusgen
On June 25, 2017
Genealogy, Grave, Nansen, Norway, Oslo, refugees, Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy, stateless

In our permanent quest for the new documents helping us locate your lost relatives we have visited the Fridtjof Nansen mansion, institute and the grave in Polhøgda, Lysaker, Norway. You might have heard about Nansen’s passports issued to refugees and stateless persons after the WW1.

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