Happy New Year

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  • On December 31, 2012
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This nice Seasons Greeting cartoon was published in December 1936 in North China Daily News. The original author, Russian officer turned cartoonist Georgi Avksentievich Sapojnikoff (a.k.a Sapajou, 1893-1949) was the top influencer of international Shanghai in 1920s-1940s. Except a few publications, his is now mostly forgotten. We at Russian Genealogy Project – Kirill, Olexa, Konstantin […]
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Happy New Year

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  • On December 28, 2012
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  • 2012
From the archives of Moscow, Kiev,Ryazan, Chernigov, St Petersbourg, Zhitomir, Vladivostok and Odessa we are wishing you the merry Christmas, Happy New Year, happiness and prosperity to you and all your relatives. We will help you find lost relatives in the 2013 as we did in this year. [singlepic id=281 w=320 h=240 float=]
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Global Alliance of Genealogy Professionals

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  • On August 28, 2012
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  • GAGP, global
RusGenProject is now a member of Global Alliance of Genealogy Professionals, the community of professionals eager to help in the genealogical research worldwide. Please do not hesitate to contact us for Russian Empire research and other Alliance members if you have puzzles to be solved in another parts of the globe.  
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Another puzzle solved

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  • On May 20, 2012
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  • archives, Kirovograd, Ukraine
We have recently completed the research in Kirovograd archive, Ukraine. A few archive file covers to follow. Let us know how we can help you. [singlepic id=294 w=320 h=240 float=] [singlepic id=295 w=320 h=240 float=]
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And sometimes there’s no catch in archives

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  • On March 18, 2012
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  • China, fish, Macao
Only those nice fish pictures were the result of our research trip to Macao… [singlepic id=293 w=320 h=240 float=] [singlepic id=292 w=320 h=240 float=] [singlepic id=291 w=320 h=240 float=]
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Cracking difficult cases

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  • On March 14, 2012
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  • DAKO, Kiev, Ukraine, work
Olexa Balyura at work at the Kiev Archive cracking another  complicated case. [singlepic id=281 w=320 h=240 float=] [singlepic id=280 w=320 h=240 float=]  
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1897 Census – how it worked

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  • On March 13, 2012
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  • 1897, census, form, Russian Empire, sample
The Russian Empire census was conducted in 1897. Original census sheets did not survived very well, but where they did, they give a very good glimpse on the life of people at the turn of the century… Last Century… Here we put four pages of the census sheet for you to have fun. Interest to […]
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Berdichev 1897 Census File covers

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  • On March 11, 2012
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  • 1897, Berdichev, census, DAKO, Ukraine
The small addition to our collection of various archival file folders we have opened recently. This time it is State Archive of Kiev Region, original files of the 1897 Census. Interested? Let us know! [imagebrowser id=5]
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Where Grandparents lived and I was born

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  • On January 29, 2012
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  • old moscow, photos, марьина роща
This blog has plenty of old pictures of Moscow. The two pages below has a lot of photos of the exact place I was born, went to school, and spent first 9 years of life — http://dedushkin1.livejournal.com/562890.html and http://dedushkin1.livejournal.com/475076.html You may not be able to read texts, but should be able to get the feeling […]
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