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New Year Genealogy online event

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On December 14, 2021
  • event, forensic, genexpo, Moscow, Russia
New Year is coming to genealogists as well πŸ™‚ I will be speaking at Genexpo online fest this coming Saturday at 18:00 Moscow time. It will be a live stream, with questions and answers from Mr Vitaly Semenov. I will be speaking about the rare field of forensic genealogy in Russia.  The event will be […]
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August Research Roundup

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On September 4, 2021
  • family history, France, Germany, probate, Russia, Ukraine
We have been working a lot in the last month of 2021 summer.
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Archives re-opening

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On February 6, 2021
  • archives, covid, Poland, reopening, Russia, Ukraine
Archives in our part of the word started to re-open after the COVID. While the “epidemic situation” takes its toll, here is the short update on what is open. Ukrainian archives had a carantine and reopened on January 25th, 2021. The number of persons in the research room is limited and you need. Polish archives […]
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Season Greetings

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On December 24, 2020
  • 2020, 2021, Archive, Genealogy, greetings, history, library, Russia, Ukraine
Dear history lovers, both professional and amateurs! The very complicated 2020 year is reaching its end, and we are looking for 2021 to be as complicated as this one. The part of β€œnew normal” is that archives and libraries close, regulations become more restrictive, delays longer, and other small and big things which makes our […]
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Slow recovery started

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On June 27, 2020
  • covid, Kiev, Research, RGADA, Russia
A few archives in our neck of the wood has reopened for business. Some closed back (like Kiev Regional). Many archives (although not all) re-started the process of answering e-mailed and paper queries. Everybody says that due to the high backlog the time to answer “could be extended”… Not surprisingly, considering their 3-months forced vacations. […]
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Imagine yourself living in 1938 North China

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On April 30, 2020
  • 1939, anketa, brem, China, harbin, immigrants, Manchu, questionnaire, Russia
To be able to get out of town (Harbin), you need to be registered with the BREM, Bureau on the affairs of Russian Emigrants in Manjuria. And you need to fill in the very detailed questionnaire. Below is the translation of what they asked the resident. 9 pages. Some questions might seem unfamiliar for the […]
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Harbin Starts Football Season 1935

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On June 11, 2018
  • 1935, championship, China, FIFA, Football, harbin, history, Russia, Russian, socker
Today is the opening of football season – in Harbin, and in 1935. Today, the solemn opening of the football season will take place on the field of the hostel of the Manchurian Polytechnic. The celebration will be opened by the general parade of all teams, after which the greetings will be held, and then […]
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Moscow – Where to find Draft Documents

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On April 16, 2018
  • archives, Army, Moscow, Russia, Π’ΠΎΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠΎΠΌΠ°Ρ‚, Москва, Π Π’Πš
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 Π²ΠΎΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠΎΠΌΠ°Ρ‚Ρ‹ are located and are re-posting it for the convenience of other researchers. Π’Π°Π±Π»ΠΈΡ†Π° ΠΎ Ρ‚ΠΎΠΌ, Π² ΠΊΠ°ΠΊΠΎΠΌ Π²ΠΎΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠΎΠΌΠ°Ρ‚Π΅ ΠœΠΎΡΠΊΠ²Ρ‹ находятся Π½Π° Ρ…Ρ€Π°Π½Π΅Π½ΠΈΠΈ старыС Π΄ΠΎΠΊΡƒΠΌΠ΅Π½Ρ‚Ρ‹ […]
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Secret Archive

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On April 13, 2018
  • 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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Siberian Prisonners of 1800s

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On March 24, 2018
  • 1854, archives, Criminals, GARF, RSL, Russia, Russian Empire, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy, Siberia, Ukraine
Nerchinsk Mining District (НСрчСнский Π“ΠΎΡ€Π½Ρ‹ΠΉ ΠžΠΊΡ€ΡƒΠ³) was from the 1747 the private property of Russian Royal family, located in Eastern Siberia, current part of Chita region 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 where […]
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