On Tuesday, April 11, JGSPBC will present “Jewish Research in the Russian Empire, a lecture by Lara Diamond.

PRESENTATION REVIEW

This talk discusses vital records, census, revision lists, and other resources that will help to understand the lives of those who lived in the Russian Empire and later in the Soviet Union.  It will cover where to locate these records – both in archives and online; how and why these records were created; and what each teaches, as well as some less genealogically traditional records. You will also learn about resources to find documents relating to relatives who lived in the Soviet Union.

ABOUT OUR PRESENTER

Lara Diamond began researching her own family around 1989. She has traced all branches of her family multiple generations back in Eastern Europe using Russian Empire-era and Austria-Hungarian Empire records. Most of her personal research is in modern-day Ukraine, with a smattering of Belarus and Poland. She has done client research leading to their ancestors in many parts of the former USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania and more. 

Lara leverages her mathematics background and her endogamous Ashkenazic genome to augment document-based research with genetic genealogy and teaches how others can have successes in genetic genealogy in endogamous situations.

Lara is president of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Maryland and leads JewishGen‘s Subcarpathian Research Division. She has lectured around the country and internationally on Jewish and Eastern European genealogy research as well as genetic genealogy. She also runs multiple district and town-focused projects to collect documentation to assist all those researching ancestors from common towns.