Genealogical research

Highly qualified specialists of the Center and our partners in various parts of the former Russian Empire (Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia, Lithuania, Latvia and Moldova) carry out genealogical research. Depending on each particular case, the research may include:

a. search for the entries (birth and/or death certificates, engagement and marriage contracts, divorce papers, licenses, and other records) in

·       local and/or central archives;

·       in community registers;

·       in military archives;

·       civil registers;

b. search for extant relatives, tombs, and houses.

Upon completion of the research we prepare a special report that includes all the discovered information, copies of the documents and photos, translation of the original documents into English, composition of the genealogical tree. Our partners in various parts of the former Soviet Union will restore the tombs of your relatives and maintain them. 

If there are genealogists who wish to do the research of their own, we can provide them with qualified assistance and translation of the documents.

Please e-mail us your requests.

Abandoned Jewish cemetery, Vinnitsa region, Ukraine.

Photo by Michael Kheifets, Zekher Avoteinu, Saint Petersburg.