Latvia / Lithuania research trip

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On October 10, 2016
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Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy

Recently visited Riga historical archive and about 6 local cemeteries near Panevezys, Lithuania. Fully documented relatives for the passport citizenship application. Looks like the family (which we traced in Ekaterinburg archives early this year) could be traced back to 1686 in Vilnius archive…

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On September 8, 2016
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1960s, communist, ekaterinburg, modern, party, Russia, Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy

I recently went to this standard archival building in this part of the world (note those small windows which usually covered with dark glass): It houses the former Sverdlovsk Communist party archive (currently titled “Center of the documentation of public organisations” The place has a very large holdings of 1950s-1990s history of the […]

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On March 11, 2016
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Dustin Hoffman, Finding Your Roots, Henry Louis Gates, Hoffman, PBS

Where is Dustih Hoffman, Hollywood movie star, and where are we, humble historic researchers, you may ask? We helped the PBS Finding Your Roots to locate and document details of Dustin’s grandfather’s life and death in Bela Tserkva, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). We researched this part of his family tree: And found this newspaper with […]

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On March 3, 2016
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Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy

We are on Telegram. Ask your questions here: telegram.me/genealogy

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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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On February 6, 2016
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We spent several days and were able to successfully locate the picture of the Russian painter, presented to Isabel II of Spain in 1860, inventoried in 1870 and never seen since then. The Patrimonio National employees helped us to find the record for it and then we were allowed to actually visit underground storage vaults […]

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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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On August 8, 2015
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Archive, archives, Chernivtsi, Rivne, Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy, Ukraine, WWII, Zdolbuniv

We did research with WWII residence lists in Zdolbuniv, Riwne oblast, Ukraine. This is the local archive building: And the nice and very helpful archive personnel with our senior researcher: The arrow on the following photo shows where you should go to find the vital records archive in Chernivtsi. We have been to […]

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On July 22, 2015
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My current research project is to identify the persons, who reportedly were serving at the Bronenosets Potemkin at the time of mutiny in 1905. Photo was reportedly taken in US, and has no markings of names our anything else. Persons pictured are in usual civil attire. Found out that the authoritative list of sailors was […]

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On April 6, 2015
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1825, archives, books, Russian Empire

Just returned from Crimea archives. Simferopol and Kertch. Catching small pieces of puzzles here and there, with some successes. Archives are not computerized, but the people there is friendly and helpful. They are currently digitizing the Crimea 1921 census sheets, look for them to be digitally available in a few months from now. Seen the […]

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Latvia / Lithuania research trip

Party archive

Finding Your Roots S03E10 Dustin Hoffman

New Channel

China Eastern Rairoad

Artwork provenance

If you want to meet us in person…

A few summer archive trips

Researching around the globe

March Archive Roundup