Polish Marriage Records Online
Kyle J. Betit
Finding an ancestor’s home village or town in Poland can be a difficult job – especially because there are few large databases of Polish records to check online. Recently, however, some marriage databases have become available that are impressive and a good start on indexing Polish marriages online. Beware that [...]

An excellent book was recently published regarding source documents in Kiev archives relating to Jewish history and culture, as part of the Project Judaica series on records of Jewish people in the old Russian Empire. The book describes many documents relevant for genealogy. The book, by Efim Melamed and Mark Kopovetsky, is written in Russian, [...]

I spent about ten days in Kiev, Ukraine, in September conducting research at archives. Most of the records relevant to genealogical research in Ukraine are kept in one of three types of archives:

Central State Historical Archives;
Oblast Archives;
Local Civil Registry Offices (ZAGS Offices).

I visited all three types of archives mentioned above during the visit to Kiev. [...]