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- Archives collect and preserve original documents of organizations such as churches or governments. Libraries generally collect published sources such as books, maps, and microfilm.
- If you plan to visit a repository, contact them and ask for information about their collection, hours, services, and fees. Ask if they require you to have a reader’s ticket (a paper indicating you are a responsible researcher) to view the records, and ask how to obtain one.
- Although the records you need may be in an archive or library, the FamilySearch Library may have microfilmed and/or digitized copies of them.
Online Digital Archives
- Perm Archives Database includes birth, marriage, death records, revision lists.
- Geneteka Database of the Polish Genealogical Society indexed East Slavic FamilySearch records (Guide)
Genealogy/Family History in Russian Archives
- Neither the Federal Archival Agency nor many Russian archives are staffed or equipped to answer extensive genealogical inquires of a "family history" nature.
- Unless the exact archive involved has already been identified, family-history inquiries should normally be addressed directly to more specialized genealogical services.
BLITZ
The Russian Ancestry Research Services: BLITZ Information Center works with the historic archives in St. Petersburg and Moscow and provides genealogy research, document retrieval and translations. BLITZ is located in St. Petersburg and also maintains an office in California. BLITZ provides a preliminary genealogy search for US$80.00.
At the conclusion of this preliminary search, they give you our assessment as to the existence of records of your family and the direction of further research. They will also tell you if there are some documents which you should order. On the other hand, if they believe that further research will be unproductive, they will let you know along with the reasons.
Endangered Archives
Endangered Archives: Russian Federation
Inventories and Guides
- Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family Website
- Record Types in Russian Archives
- Visiting an Archive How to prepare for and get the most from a visit.
- Annotated Register, Russian State Historic Archives, St. Petersburg Call number: 947.2 A3 1994, FamilySearch Library
- Arkhivnye dokumenty poistorii evreev v Rosii v xix - nachale XX vv Which is a Research guide to materials on the history of Russian Jewry (19th and 20th centuries) in selected archives of the former Soviet Union. Call number: 947 J57d, FamilySearch Library
- A Directory and Bibliographic Guide to Holdings in Moscow and St Petersburg WorldCat
Libraries
National Library of Russia
18, Sadovaya Street
St. Petersburg, Russia, 191069
Phone: +7(812)718-85-97
Email: ref.service@nlr.ru
Museums
For a list with links of the many museums in Russia, see www.Russian Museums.info
Record Offices
Civil registration records are kept by civil registration offices in regions. There is no central office.
- List of Russian Civil Registration Offices. Click on the map for telephone numbers, fax numbers and addresses (in Russian).
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