Hace poco alguien publicó en Facebook el enlace a éste articulo que dice que entre la población Hispana de los Estados Unidos los nombres Hispanos están pasando de moda. Ahora es más preferible usar los nombres William, Mark y Theodore en vez de Guillermo, Marco y Teodoro. Me llamó la atención el articulo hace poco más de [...]

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 [...]

I was recently “over my head” in tracing the origins of some former slaves – that is, “over my head” in both the sense that slave research is difficult (emotionally and academically) and the research was even more complicated because of the specific goal the client had in mind.
While I can’t help anyone with the [...]

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. [...]