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Volume/Year: I/1985, II/1986, III/1987, IV/1988, V/1989, VI/1990, VII/1991, VIII/1992. IX/1993, X/1994, XI/1995, XII/1996, XIII/1997, XIV/1998, XV/1999, XVI/2000, XVII/2001, XVIII/2002, XIX/2003, XX/2004, XXI/2005
USSR/Russia (also see Belarus, Moldova, Russia,
Ukraine) Are we descendants of Khazarian Jews? II/2/05 Book review: The Jews in Poland and Russia--Biographical Essay III/1/38
Origin of Russian-Jewish surnames III/2/03
Russian business directories as aids in genealogical research IV/2/03
Russian government to allow genealogical inquiries IV/3/02
Book review: Russia Gathers Her Jews IV/3/17
Matriken records V/1/34
U.S.-Soviet accord include plans for genealogical exchange V/2/03
Vital statistics in Czarist Russia V/3/06
U.S./USSR Genealogical Exchange Advisory Board holds meeting V/4/03
Book review: Handbook for Archival Research in the USSR V/4/10
New strategies necessary for Soviet inquiries VI/1/06
Soviet success stories VI/1/08
U.S. genealogical team visits Soviet archives VI/2/03
Vladmir Tarasov answers VI/2/05
Soviet trip (by archivists) delayed VI/3/21
Genealogical inquiries to Soviet Union VI/3/39
Russian sources in Western libraries VI/4/20
Russian business directories VI/4/23
A cemetery in (Irkutsk) Siberia VI/4/50
Experiences on a trip to the former Soviet Union VII/1/06
Genealogical service inaugurated for Russia, Belarus and Ukraine VII/2/03
Commentary on RAGAS agreement VII/2/04
Writing to Russia for genealogical information VII/3/04
Russian business directories--an update VII/3/13
Jewish patronymic and metronymic surnames in Russia VII/4/03
My Russian Research VII/4/29
History of the US-USSR Archival Exchange Program VIII/1/03
More Russian genealogical resources found in the U.S Library of Congress VIII/1/07
Jewish surnames in the Russian Empire VIII/3/03
Report on a Jewish genealogical seminar in Moscow VIII/3/08
Records of Jews in the Vinnitsa Oblast Archives VIII/3/10
RAGAS creates computer link between Washington and Moscow VIII/3/67
A note on accessing Russian voter lists VIII/3/67
Bukharan Adventure VIII/4/15
Some glimpses of studying Jewish genealogy in Russia VIII/4/31
International conference on genealogy held in Russia VIII/4/35
Records of Russian magnates as a genealogical resource VIII/4/37
Book review: Bukharian Jews VIII/4/62
Joint Distribution Committee records in Russia VIII/4/64
Survey of Judaica in former Soviet Union planned VIII/4/65
Little known sources of Russian-Jewish data IX/1/06
Jewish genealogical material in the archives of the former USSR IX/1/09
JGS Moscow meeting hears talk by literary critic Lev Anninsky IX/1/66
Reports of experiences dealing with the New Russia IX/1/67
A list of officers of Jewish Prayer Societies in Russia, 1853-55 IX/2/25
Book review: Synagogues, Prayer Houses and Their Employees in the Pale of
Settlement and Kurland and Livonia Provinces of the Russian Empire, 1853-
1854 IX/2/59
Russians seek American relatives IX/2/64
Corrects misspelled town names IX/2/64
Book review: A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire IX/3/10
Theories, assumptions and implications of some problems in researching Eastern
European records IX/3/12
Jewish genealogical research in Russia--the view from Moscow IX/3/28
How to do research in the former USSR--the view from Washington IX/3/39
Free market economy coming to Eastern European services IX/3/44
E-mail to former Soviet Union available IX/3/65
Describes Joint Distribution Committee records in Russian archives IX/3/67
Russian Empire Crown Rabbi Vital Statistic Registers X/1/17
Book review: The Jews of Kurdistan X/1/63
Group plans to document and preserve Jewish artifacts of the Russian empire X/1/65
Genealogy correspondence course announced in Russia X/1/66
Evaluates voter registration lists used to compile Beider book X/1/67
E-Mail service to Russia available through commercial venture X/2/65
What may be learned from 19th-century czarist Jewish birth records and revision lists X/3/03
A catalogue of Jewish monuments in the territory of the former Soviet Union X/3/15
Missing in Russia Organization formed X/3/44
First issue of JGS journal analyzes genealogical life in Russia X/3/45
Book review: Research Guide to Materials on Russian Jewry in Selected Archives of
the Former Soviet Union X/3/61
Book review: Literature on Jews in Russian, 1890-1945 X/4/79
]Materials from the 1897 All-Empire Russian census held by the State Historical
Archives of Latvia XI/1/15
Book review: Documentary Sources on Jewish History in the Archives of the CIS and
Baltic States XI/1/63
Jewish treasures in the former Soviet archives: Opportunities and problems XI/2/07
Sources for genealogy in the Archives of the former Soviet Union XI/2/13
Thoughts on Jewish given names from analysis of czarist records XI/2/19
Migration from the Russian Empire: Lists of Passengers Arriving at the Port of New
York XI/2/61
K”nigsberg documents go well beyond description in finding indexes XI/2/64
Beyond the metricals: Records from the Russian Department of Police XI/4/03
Documents of Jewish genealogical value in the Radzivill Archive of the State Historical
Archives of Belarus XI/4/28
The current state of archival research in the CIS XII/1/06
Russian books of residents as a genealogical resource XII/1/23
Jews of Kurdistan and Zakho XII/1/44
Book review: Literature on Jews in Russian, 1890-1945 XII/1/65
Diaspora Research Institute documenting Carpatho-Russian jewry XII/1/66
Moscow' Osobyi Archives: a new genealogical source at U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum XII/2/37
What Is a box tax? XII/2/39
Book review: The Jews in Poland and Russia: Bibliographical Essays XII/2/63
Jewish agricultural colonies in New Russia XII/3/33
Russian archival and historical terminology XII/3/35
Crimean Jewish records at LDS (Mormon) Family History Library XII/3/36
Gubernskie Vedomosti: a genealogical resource XII/4/27
Book review: Jewish Documentary Sources in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus XII/4/81
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