ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia


Genealogy/Family History
Last update of current page: 26 October 2019

Many specialized genealogical services are listed and described in the Resource Guide on the website of the Federation of East European Family History Societies (http://www.feefhs.org).
See also the website GenoTree.ru with hot links to many genealogical services: http://www.genotree.ru/links_geno.

See also the most extensive Russian family history website: http://www.vgd.ru/ Vserossiiskoe Genealogicheskoe Drevo (Russian) with some text also in English: "All-Russia Family Tree".

For Jewish family history see the website of the "Routes to Roots Foundation'-- http://www.rtrfoundation.org/index.html, directed by Miriam Weiner (New Jersey). Coverage includes research possibilities for families of origin in Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, and Moldova, as well as the Russian Federation, One rubric 'Archive Database' provides helpful archival research information; another 'Maps' assists locating ancestral towns. Weiner's English-language guides are featured in the 'Publications' section. The Foundation also sponsors on-site archival research.

The ABB printed directory, Archives of Russia (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000), vol. 1, Part A, pp. 102-108, provides more bibliography of reference aids; see also the sections for Jews (pp. 98-100) and Germans from Russia (pp. 100-101), but listings now require updating. See also additional bibliographic and reference aids for genealogy in the Archival Reference Bibliography on this website.
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