Moscow – Where to find Draft Documents

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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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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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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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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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On February 25, 2018
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1931, China, espionnage, harbin, IKKI, Noulens, OMS, Russia, Russian Genealogy, shanghai, spy, WWII

Were you relatives in China (Shanghai, Harbin, Hong Kong) in 1900-1950? This is the 1931 passport photo of Russian spies in China. We found this child alive in Moscow in 2010. If you missed your relatives in Chinese turmoil, we can help to find them, trace their ancestors or find their descendants. We work even […]

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On February 23, 2018
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Archive, Galicia, Genealogy, Poland, Polish Family History, Polska, Research, Ukraine

We can help you with your Polish research. Missing relatives with Polish surnames? Old handwriting only grandma could read? We are a small and determined team which does online and field research in Poland and Ukraine, visiting archives, libraries, offices, talking to old people in villages — all to find your missing ancestral links. We […]

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On February 17, 2018
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archives, China, Philippines, pictures, Russia, Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy, tubabao, WWII

This is the last post with images found in the US National archives. They are much more optimistic than the previous batch describing the typhoon damage. It shows “Humanity Calls”, the US non-profit which took a great effort to get those Russians from this remote island. There are also photos of US Senator William F. […]

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On February 13, 2018
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archives, China, Genealogy, Philippines, Russian Empire, Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, shanghai, tubabao, work, WWII

While researching in College Park MD archive we found the unopened pack of photos, with the accompanying letter saying Transmitted herewith are sixty-four pictures which are self-explanatory of conditions at the United Nations Evacuation Cemter on Tubabao Island signed by James E Henderson, American Consul General Those documents are of the few describing Russian Reefugee […]

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On January 20, 2018
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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 […]

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On January 8, 2018
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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 […]

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Moscow – Where to find Draft Documents

Secret Archive

Siberian Prisonners of 1800s

Welcome

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Polish Research Discount

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