I am surprised that political comments of this sort are allowed at this website where people are researching on information on their relatives. Half of those who we are researching about were from Pol

#russia #belarus

Hello, first, you submit your document to ViewMate and wait for its approval. You can find the instructions on how to post on ViewMate here: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/topost.asp Once it is ap

#general

Hello David, Russian State War Historical Archive is offering genealogical and biographical research: http://xn--80adcv1b.xn--p1ai/polzovatelyam/genealogicheskie-i-biograficheskie-issledovaniya.shtml

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Hi David, The lists can be found here: http://www.kby.kiev.ua/komitet/ru/membook/memory-book-baby-yar/203.html http://babynyar.gov.ua/ru/victims_list http://www.kby.kiev.ua/komitet/ru/names/ It is men

#ukraine #holocaust

Hi Mel, to me it also sounds like a Russian last name. Years ago, I had a friend Konovalova ('a' is the ending for a female's name). Kon' means a 'horse' ('конь'). Other last names with the same root

#names #ukraine

Hi Louis, I have found a detailed map of that area, from 1944: http://clubklad.ru/maps/5980/ It is obviously a map used by Germans in the WWII. There are many small villages indicated that are not pre

#galicia

As I am trying to identify the young men in the 1st photo, I noticed how the first young man is dressed; it looks like a part of a uniform. I asked at one of the forums and someone sent me their photo

#poland #photographs #belarus

Regarding this question, I got this reply from the representative of the Russian State War-Historical Archive: - it is possible to send a request to the Archive, but it is important to know and indica

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Hi Val, there is a list of the victims of political repressions: https://ru.openlist.wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F:OlSearch What are the first/last names of your grandfat

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I have posted a photo of the lady who was born around the 1860s. My family thinks she was a wife of Meer Rogovin from Minsk guberniya, but it may not be 100% true. We do not have her name. She should

#russia #belarus #poland #photographs

Hi Eduardo, recently I was looking for someone's else relative who was a soldier in the Russo-Japanese war, and I saved some links that I found on this topic. There are also lists of officers, nurses

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Good afternoon, I am looking for information about Rogovins from Minsk area. I am posting a link to the photos and their description. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eYi6Bmywm0G3p4dbelX8mtgf6n9uvM

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