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In Their Words: A Genealogist's Translation Guide
Volume II: Russian
by Jonathan D. Shea and William F. Hoffman
Written by the authors of Avotaynu's Following
the Paper Trail, the book
includes:
* over 88 Russian-language documents and extracts from American and European sources, analyzed
and translated -- they include extracts from birth, death, and marriage records of various formats; gazetteer entries;
revision lists; obituaries; population registers; military service records; passports; etc.
* sections on Russian grammar, phonetics, and spelling
* information on how to locate records in America and Europe
* a chapter on gazetteers and how to use them, with 10 maps showing Russia's changing borders
and divisions, and Letter-Writing Guides for Russian, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian
* a 77-page vocabulary with over 4,000 entries, featuring archaic terms and spellings most
likely to be found in records but rarely included in modern dictionaries
* a 26-page list of over 700 Christian and Jewish given names with equivalents in English,
Latin, Lithuanian, and Polish
8½" x 11½" 496 pp. softcover $35.00
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