Shanghai Football club “Sokol” 1933

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  • 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

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  • 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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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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Polish Research Discount

  • Posted by user
  • 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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New Book Published

  • Posted by user
  • On January 10, 2018
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  • books, China, Russian Empire, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy, WWII
We have a small addition to our large index of Russians in China. The complete transcript of applications for the positions in the Russian Regiments in Shanghai in 1930s-1940s ( Russians in China. Shanghai D-917 Police Applicants: 1930-1942 ISBN: 978-1936531165) is published and available on Amazon and all major booksellers. It contains detailed biographies (in English) […]
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Origins of word – Genocide

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  • On December 15, 2017
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  • 1900, Belarus, books, Jewish, Russian Genealogist, Volkovysk
I never thought that the word Genocide has its author, that it was invented by the particular human being with the birth date (June 24, 1900) and name (Rafał), and that this word is less than 100 years old… It is always very much inspiring to know that just inventing a word for something creates […]
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Two females, ten last names

  • Posted by user
  • 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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Soviet Passports and IDs (1927-1999)

  • Posted by user
  • On October 22, 2016
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  • 1930s, 1950s, GARF, passport, Research, Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy, USSR
We have completed the research and found out how the letters in the Soviet passports (and удостоверения личности, personal IDs, and in ZAGS birth certificates) were assigned over the most part of the XX century. A couple of months of fruitless archival research finally brought some Real Historical Gems. It turned out that the 1974 […]
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China Eastern Rairoad

  • Posted by user
  • On February 23, 2016
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  • Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy
We are frequently asked to trace families of Russians from Harbin and other Chinese locations related to the КВЖД — China Eastern Railroad. The book we published — Russians in China. Genealogical index (1926-1946) — is a good place to start your research. We are having an exciting case with documents flowing in from Khabarovsk archive, Russian […]
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If you want to meet us in person…

  • Posted by user
  • On October 6, 2015
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  • Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy
We will be giving the talk on October 24th at the “Nashi Predky-Our Ancestors” Fall 2015 Conference in the Ukrainian Cultural Center Somerset, NJ. Please feel free to join this event, we expect this to be very informative and exciting conference. The title of our speech is Tracing heirs through Ukrainian archives: Detective stories of metrical records and censuses. […]
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