Welcome

  • Posted by user
  • On February 27, 2018
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  • 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. […]
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Small successes

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  • On June 25, 2018
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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.
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Harbin Starts Football Season 1935

  • Posted by user
  • On June 11, 2018
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  • 1935, championship, China, FIFA, Football, harbin, history, Russia, Russian, socker
Today is the opening of football season – in Harbin, and in 1935. Today, the solemn opening of the football season will take place on the field of the hostel of the Manchurian Polytechnic. The celebration will be opened by the general parade of all teams, after which the greetings will be held, and then […]
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Shanghai Football club “Sokol” 1933

  • Posted by user
  • On June 9, 2018
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  • 1933, 1936, China, FIFA, Football, Genealogy, Russian, shanghai, Soccer
Russian Football team “Sokol 1” in 1933 after winning the 2nd league Junior cup of the Shanghai Football Association.  You can search the “Russians in China” genealogical index for details on those and other emigrees, both related and not related to football. Need to find who of your relatives played along? Let us know! We can find your […]
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Football in Shanghai in 1930s – post 1

  • Posted by user
  • On June 1, 2018
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  • 1930s, 1936, FIFA, Football, Historical, shanghai, Soccer
We will publish small excerpts from the 1930s historical Shanghai book about the football.  The most interesting sport in Shanghai, which always attracts hundreds and thousands of spectators, is certainly football, to which addicted are representatives of all nationalities living in Shanghai. Currently in Shanghai, in the Football League alone, there are over 50 teams […]
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World is getting crazy about football!

  • Posted by user
  • On May 29, 2018
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When you see genealogy sites advertise services related to FIFA World Soccer Cup, we think we should not miss this opportunity to say that many years ago your ancestors probably played football/soccer too. Those picture from the 1930s Shanghai. Russian team “Sokol 1” plays on the Race Course. You can search the “Russians in China” […]
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Moscow – Where to find Draft Documents

  • Posted by user
  • On April 16, 2018
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  • archives, Army, Moscow, Russia, Военкомат, Москва, РВК
Moscow is a difficult city to search — many administrative changes means you never know where the documents are. We have today found the table describing where the records of военкоматы are located and are re-posting it for the convenience of other researchers. Таблица о том, в каком военкомате Москвы находятся на хранении старые документы […]
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Secret Archive

  • Posted by user
  • On April 13, 2018
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  • archives, FSB, global, Gulag, Omsk, Poland, Russia, Stalin, travel, USSR
Two buildings at the background on this photo show you one of the most secretive archives in Russia — Omsk archive of Federal Security Service. We spent two weeks working here, analyzing and annotating materials they have of 1937-1938 Stalin Purges. Was you ancestors “repressed” or “illegally killed”or  “sent to 10 years camps” in 1930s […]
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Unusual WW2 monument

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  • On April 7, 2018
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While travelling around the old trading town of Kainsk, established 1722, we found the unusual monument. It is located near the “Old” local cemetery on the outskirts of the town. This is the monument to Kainsk residents who died in WW2. What is unusual is that it was built by the local resident, private person, not […]
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Siberian Prisonners of 1800s

  • Posted by user
  • On March 24, 2018
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  • 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 https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA 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 […]
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Short current work roundup

  • Posted by user
  • On March 20, 2018
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Last week we found documents about Siberian imprisonment in 1870s; rural life in Ukraine in 1912; Jewish life in Odessa in 1890s; military service in Soviet Army in 1930s; white Russians immigration in 1920s in Serbia and China. Need something like that from that part of the world? Just let us know, we will tell […]
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