Welcome

Posted by rusgen
On February 27, 2018
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. […]

China research, Russian Spies

Posted by rusgen
On February 25, 2018
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 […]

Posted by rusgen
On February 17, 2018
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
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
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 […]

Posted by rusgen
On January 10, 2018
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) […]

Posted by rusgen
On January 8, 2018
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 […]

Posted by rusgen
On December 1, 2017
Belarus, China, Genealogy, Jewish, Kiev, Odessa, Russian Empire, Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy, Ukraine, WWII

Maps… We love maps… Do you have the old map of the place where your ancestors lived? Are you certain you correctly identified the ancestral places in the foreign country? Do you have the strange placename you struggle to put on map? We have a lot of experience answering those kinds of questions. Actually, this […]

Posted by rusgen
On October 28, 2017
archives, census, Jewish, Jewish Genealogy, Odessa, Russian Family History, Russian Genealogist, Ukraine, WWII

100 years ago Odessa was the fourth largest city in Russian Empire (after Moscow, St Petersbourg, and Warsaw). As it was within the Pale of Settlement, it has the large Jewish population. Another strange twist of the history is that a lot of Jewish records there survived the 1917 revolution, civil war, and the WWII. […]

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On August 8, 2015
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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Welcome

China research, Russian Spies

Tubabao photos 3/3

Tubabao Photos part 2/3

Top Secret Info? No problems!

New Book Published

Where in the world is your family history?

Maps

Jewish Genealogy Research – Odessa

A few summer archive trips