Many people are interested in the story of their family. A reliable pedigree allows you to feel your belonging to a long series of distant ancestors, and maybe noble noble families. Building your own pedigree can be an exciting hobby or just entertain in your leisure time.
You will need
- - some amount of money;
- - passport.
Instruction manual
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The first and main point in writing the history of your surname is to collect all the possible preserved information about distant and close relatives, some events in their lives, facts of biography, key dates, information about place of residence and work. In the search for this information it is necessary to turn to living witnesses, friends, relatives, acquaintances. Indeed, it is possible that the information that you want to receive has already been collected and ordered by someone.
2
After interviewing all the witnesses who may be aware of the history of your family name, you need to turn to collecting material evidence. Any personal items, old photographs, letters, or any other documents can become a guiding line leading you to a distant forgotten ancestor.
3
To obtain information of bygone years, you can try contacting the state archives. It is in the archives that all the old documents related to civil registration, seniority, places of residence and much more are currently stored. Many Russian archives store metric books of pre-revolutionary parish churches, which were used to record the population in the old days. The so-called "Revision tales" - an analogue of modern population censuses regularly conducted in the Russian Empire.
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After collecting the information, it is necessary to proceed with their ordering and systematization. Now, genealogy lovers are offered many computer programs that facilitate the construction of a large family tree, which will take into account and complete all the information about your desired relatives.
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If you, for some reason, could not cope with one or more points of searching for your pedigree, you can always entrust the solution to the problem to professionals. Now in Russia there are many firms and agencies whose specialization is the search for archival information and compilation of pedigrees. These organizations will also help you in obtaining the appropriate certificate of the representative of the family name or, if there is reason for this, in including you in the pedigree books of the nobility.
note
Before asking for help in searching for the history of his surname to the agency, it is necessary to check whether he has the appropriate license and good reputation.
Useful advice
To go to the archive you need to stock up on a passport and some amount of money.
