Old Paper Fasteners

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On November 26, 2017
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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 […]

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On November 17, 2017
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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 […]

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On November 3, 2017
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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 […]

Old Paper Fasteners

Two females, ten last names

Find your old village