Today, many want to learn the history of a kind, both from a pure interest in their origins, and from materialistic motives. But regardless of what motivates a person in search of his roots, the work he has to do is painstaking and meticulous.
Instructions
Step 1
Buy all the necessary stationery for storing collected documents and photographs (folders, envelopes), as well as for organizing information recorded from eyewitnesses and older relatives. After all, even if you are going to store everything in computer memory, a paper archive will not hurt.
Step 2
Conduct an audit of all old documents and photographs in your home. Pay special attention to documents containing genealogical information (birth, marriage, death certificates, certificates, certificates, letters and diplomas, military cards, order books, etc.). Photocopy them. Take two folders, and put in one of them everything that belongs to the paternal line, in the other - to the maternal. There is a separate envelope for each person.
Step 3
Browse through all your old notebooks and notebooks. It is possible that you will find the recorded passport number of a long-deceased relative you would like to receive information about.
Step 4
Before contacting relatives for information about ancestors of interest to you, draw up a kind of questionnaire, where the following should be recorded:
- date of birth (for information about the deceased - date of death);
- FULL NAME. father and mother;
- for those born before 1917 - the estate;
- living place;
- religion;
- education;
- place of work, service;
- participation in wars;
- available awards;
- FULL NAME. wife (husband);
- names and dates of birth of children.
Ask your relatives to fill out this sheet and indicate all available information about their deceased and living relatives. If your loved ones live in another city, send them a letter with a questionnaire by Russian post or e-mail.
Step 5
Make inquiries to the archives of your region and the Russian archives, which contain pre-revolutionary registers of birth, revision documents, personal files, etc., which, in your opinion, may contain information about your ancestors. Contact the registry office if you need copies of documents issued after 1917. For information about this period, you can also contact the departmental archives (for example, the military).
Step 6
Follow the rules for writing requests. Indicate:
- FULL NAME. and postal address;
- the subject of the request (it is formulated depending on what information about which person, event or fact you need);
- the chronological scope of the requested information.
If there is no answer to your request yet, call the archive and ask if it has been received and how the research is progressing.
