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Flow of Ukrainian archive records online speeds up for genealogy research

By now, I was hoping the Russian war in Ukraine would be over, but at least the efforts to digitize Ukrainian archive records are going strong. Back in March, Anatolii Khromov, the director of State...

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Birth record gives important details on family’s WWII escape from the Soviet...

I have been impatiently waiting for my mother’s birth record to arrive at the city archive for Kyiv. The record still hasn’t arrived at the archive but I got the record this week for free without a...

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Free database of old photos opens door to finding valuable gems

Old photos from Eastern Europe are scattered over the Internet. It is typically hard to find ones for genealogical value in one location. History of Russia in Photographs solves that problem by...

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FamilySearch advances efforts to digitize Ukrainian archive records

The nightmare of the Russian war in Ukraine won’t end but it’s not slowing down the determination of the collaborative efforts to save and digitize Ukrainian archive records. FamilySearch is continuing...

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Newly added records and databases offer some treasures for Russian genealogy

Some treasures of records and databases are finally online, thanks to the work of Russian archives and other ongoing independent projects. It’s been a slow process to move Russian archives into the...

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A look into a Ukrainian archive’s struggle to keep its posted records online

It was almost two years ago when I began following more closely the archives in Ukraine and Russia that were posting scanned records online. The State Archives of Kharkiv Region was one archive that...

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MyHeritage launches free Wiki site with valuable Eastern European genealogy...

Nothing beats a new genealogy resource that covers Eastern Europe when it comes for free in English. MyHeritage launched its new Wiki site this week. Users don’t need to register nor are limited in how...

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Variety of Ukrainian archive records awaiting online to kickoff 2024 research

The weather is dreary out there but the news for Ukrainian genealogy is quite sunny. FamilySearch is keeping dedicated to reaching its goal of digitizing Ukrainian archive records at a high speed and...

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Wiki site details records of Ukrainian archives on a user-friendly and...

Trying to figure out the records that exist at Ukrainian archives is challenging for those who don’t know Ukrainian. Archives in Ukraine don’t have a standard format for how they set up their websites....

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Cemetery project in Eastern Europe documenting millions of graves on databases

Finding cemetery databases for the former USSR on Russian-speaking people is quite the challenge. It gets hard when the people moved to smaller countries of the former USSR. A newer cemetery project is...

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