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"How to" Guides

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• Please note that some guides need to be completed in sequence to ensure a successful experience. Build your research knowledge and confidence with each activity you complete.
  
• Each guide comes with three parts - Instruction, which includes a guided activity, Assignment, to test what you've learned, and an Answer key, to check how you did on the assignment. The guides are also rated as either Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced. The majority are designed for beginners.
  
• The guides are available in PDF form designed to be downloaded and printed. To view a guide, click on its title. Once the guide has opened, use the PDF tools found in your browser to print and save the document.
  
• PLEASE NOTE: Some guides are designed to be completed using resources found in the FamilySearch Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. These are indicated by an * following the title of the guide. If you cannot visit the FamilySearch Library, check your local library or your local FamilySearch FamilySearch Center for availability of the resources described in the guide.

Available Guides

This is a work in progress. Please check back often for new and/or updated guides.

• The Russian Alphabet - Instruction, Activity, Answer Key
• Deciphering the Handwriting and Understanding the Grammar - Instruction, Activity, Answer Key
• Pamyat Naroda (WWII Database) - Instruction, Activity, Answer Key
• Reading Russian Revision List Records - Instruction
• Reading the 1897 Census - Instruction, Activity, Answer Key
• RGN Gazetteer - Instruction, Activity, Answer Key
• Spiski Gazetteer - Instruction, Activity, Answer Key
• JewishGen Communities Database and Gazetteer - Instruction, Activity, Answer Key
• Arcanum Maps - Instruction, Activity, Answer Key

• Reading Russian Birth Records (In Poland) - Instruction, Activity, Answer Key
• Reading Russian Marriage Records (In Poland) - Instruction, Activity, Answer Key
• Reading Russian Death Records (In Poland) - Instruction, Activity, Answer Key
• Reading Russian Orthodox Birth Records: Instruction, Activity, Answer Key
• Reading Russian Orthodox Marriage Records: Instruction, Activity, Answer Key
• Reading Russian Orthodox Death/Burial Records: Instruction, Activity, Answer Key

Germans from Russia

• Finding German Colonies (In Russia) - Instruction, Activity, Answer Key
• Locating the Town with Websites and Gazetteers - Instruction, Activity, Answer Key
• Black Sea Germans: Published Records and Indexes - Instruction, Activity, Answer Key
• Revision List Records - Instruction, Activity, Answer Key
• Online Resources for Volga Germans - Instruction, Activity, Answer Key
• Locating Church Records - Instruction, Activity, Answer Key
• Locating and Contacting Archives - Instruction

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