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Written by the authors of Avotaynu's
Following the Paper Trail,
the book includes:
• more than 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
• an 80-page vocabulary with over 3,700
entries, featuring archaic terms and spellings most likely to be found
in records but rarely included in modern dictionaries
• a 25-page list of over 700 Christian
and Jewish given names with equivalents in English, Latin, Lithuanian,
and Polish
• Oriented toward of the needs of
genealogists with Jewish family history is a section on transliterating
Jewish names from the Cyrillic Alphabet
The book is rich with illustrations of documents. Some are Jewish
including:
• Jewish Birth Record from Russian Poland
• Written Transcript of a Jewish Birth
Record from Russian Poland
• Jewish Columnar Birth Record
• Paragraph-Form Jewish Marriage Record
from Russian Poland
• Jewish Columnar Marriage Register from
Russian Poland
• Jewish Paragraph-Form Death Record from
Russian Poland
• Jewish Columnar Death Record from
Russian Poland
• Jewish Divorce Record from Bialystok
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x 11½" 520pp. softcover $45.00
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