Expert genealogist: former Russian Empire archives

Professional genealogist with 20+ years experience researching Jewish ancestry across archives in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Moldova, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Kazakhstan.

Expert access to hard-to-reach archives and Soviet-era documentation. I navigate Cyrillic records, metric books, and regional archive systems to identify people correctly, verify relationships, and reconstruct family histories with evidence (not assumptions).

Core Services:
- Deep archival research: break brick walls and trace lost ancestors using metric books, revision and family lists, personal files, newspapers, WWI and WWII military data, etc.
- Expand family histories with verified facts: documented timelines, family narratives, and migration routes
- Targeted research on a specific individual, surname, or town across regional/state archives and online databases
- "Start with just a name": I begin with your ancestor's name, surname, and family lore. I research US/Western records first (census, naturalization, passenger lists, draft cards) to establish facts, then trace origins back to Eastern Europe and continue deep research in local archives.

Fluent Russian/English, conversational Spanish, basic Hebrew.
Moderator of J‑Roots, the only Russian‑language Jewish genealogy forum.

I live in/between Israel / Russia / Poland.

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