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In Their Words:  A Genealogist's Translation
Guide to Polish, German, Latin, and  Russian
Documents  -  Volume II:  Russian


by Jonathan D. Shea and William F. Hoffman

ISBN 0-9631579-4-9              Copyright 2002

This publication 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 and much more.

*  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 the, with ten (10) maps showing 
    Russia's changing borders and divisions.  There are also 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.

This book is soft cover, perfect bound, with 496 bindery pages, 8.5" x 11",
weight 3 lb., 5 oz.

Can be ordered through Avotaynu, the Polish Art Center, the Polish Genealogical Society of America.

 


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