Home

 

Publications

 

Database
Parish Affiliations of the Former Archdiocese of Wilno
Order Form  

William F. "Fred" Hoffman

Jonathan D. Shea
Translation and Research Services
Contact Us
 

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.

The list price is US $30 plus $4 postage and handling for delivery by Media
Mail to addresses in the U.S. for a total of $34.  To order a copy for shipment
to addresses in the U.S., please use the order form. (In view of the high cost
of shipping this book from the U.S. to Canadian addresses, we recommend
that Canadian customers save money by ordering it from Genealogy
Unlimited.  For postage costs and totals for shipment to addresses outside
North America, please e-mail us.)

 


: