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Re: How do I identify my ancestors'surnames in cyrilic?

trishsa2 — Sun Feb 02, 2014 5:47 pm

Author: trishsa2

Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 5:47 pm

Gilberto, The alphabet has been such a help and just when I needed it! Wonderful! I Haven't done the 'geneteka' yet, will try it now. Trisha : )

Re: How do I identify my ancestors'surnames in cyrilic?

EANWhitson — Tue Jan 28, 2014 8:43 am

Author: EANWhitson

Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 8:43 am

Magroski49 wrote:

Hi,

This is surely a question that many researchers have made, when looking for their ancestors records written in Cyrillic (after June 1868).

Though there are some web tools that help one to transcribe typed characters from English/Polish to Russian, I am not aware of any that does the same to handwritten characters.

Before I tell you a helpful way to solve this problem, I would like to point out that many records contain the names and surnames written in russian and, rigth afer, in polish (usually between parentheses). In a lesser degree you may find - if you are lucky - an index written in both languages.

If none of these have met your expectation then let me suggest you the following:
- go to http://geneteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=se&lang=pol
- in the field Nazwiska type the surname you are looking for
- in the field Od roku type 1868
- in the filed Do roku type any year after 1868, and then click on Wyszukaj botton.
- a page of results will appear. I would suggest you the ones in Warszawa or Lodzkie.
- click on any number of results (urodzenia, malzenstwa or zgonow)
- look for the icon SKAN at the right side and click on it
- this will take you either to record itself or the National Archives page (a bit trickier, since you will have to find out which of those images displayed - like in a LDS film - contain the record you want to view)
- on birth records, the surname will appear in the third or forth line (if the declarant was the father); on marriage records, usually in a few more lines below. Some names are underlined and, therefore, easier to locate.

One more thing: penmanship varies from priest to priest, local and time. It may happen that, at a first look, the surname doesn't look like at all with what you expected.

A russian alphabet is attached to this message.

Gilberto

I don't know why I didn't think about this. It makes perfect sense and ultimately, when I want to search for a surname, I like seeing what it looks like in cursive.

How do I identify my ancestors'surnames in cyrilic?

Anonymous — Fri Jan 24, 2014 10:54 am

Author: Anonymous

Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 10:54 am

Hi,

This is surely a question that many researchers have made, when looking for their ancestors records written in Cyrillic (after June 1868).

Though there are some web tools that help one to transcribe typed characters from English/Polish to Russian, I am not aware of any that does the same to handwritten characters.

Before I tell you a helpful way to solve this problem, I would like to point out that many records contain the names and surnames written in russian and, rigth afer, in polish (usually between parentheses). In a lesser degree you may find - if you are lucky - an index written in both languages.

If none of these have met your expectation then let me suggest you the following:
- go to http://geneteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=se&lang=pol
- in the field Nazwiska type the surname you are looking for
- in the field Od roku type 1868
- in the filed Do roku type any year after 1868, and then click on Wyszukaj botton.
- a page of results will appear. I would suggest you the ones in Warszawa or Lodzkie.
- click on any number of results (urodzenia, malzenstwa or zgonow)
- look for the icon SKAN at the right side and click on it
- this will take you either to record itself or the National Archives page (a bit trickier, since you will have to find out which of those images displayed - like in a LDS film - contain the record you want to view)
- on birth records, the surname will appear in the third or forth line (if the declarant was the father); on marriage records, usually in a few more lines below. Some names are underlined and, therefore, easier to locate.

One more thing: penmanship varies from priest to priest, local and time. It may happen that, at a first look, the surname doesn't look like at all with what you expected.

A russian alphabet is attached to this message.

Gilberto